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Recent NewsPonchatoula strawberries in demand Times Picayune Article, Ellyn Couvillion
PONCHATOULA — The strawberries that Heather and Dale Robertson grow on the fields surrounding their home are sold at farmers’ markets and grocery stores and used by chefs in fine restaurants in New Orleans. Now, they’ll be the strawberries in the “Ponchatoula Strawberry” ice cream that Kleinpeter Farms Dairy produced for the first time last week, in its recently opened ice cream plant in Baton Rouge. “I can’t wait to taste it,” Heather Robertson said Feb. 28.
Downtown shuffleHammond Star article, Joan Davis A new men's clothing store is two weeks from opening, and two East Thomas Street businesses have changed locations in downtown Hammond, one replacing a specialty shop which left town. Native New Orleanian Billy Brinkman will open Billy Brinkman Menswear at 110 E. Thomas St. in Darryl Smith's Alley Square development. Originally set to open Feb. 1, the store is Brinkman's first business venture. He will run the store in partnership with his brother, Mike Brinkman, who has run Brinkman's Menswear in Metairie for many years. Renovations to the former Tropic Cafe building have run behind, but Brinkman said he has every confidence in his landlord, who has taken on a massive undertaking with Alley Square, which houses commercial space downstairs and apartments above in buildings that have sat crumbling for years.
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Gov. Bobby Jindal, Supriya Jindal, and Parish President Gordon Burgess share a laugh together. Tangipahoa enjoys a close relationship with the newly elected Governor, and is excited about all the new economic funding possibilities here.
PARISH BUILDING PERMITS JUMP