5th Annual Your Santa Breakfast, December 3, 2022

There will be souvenir photos in Covington.

Your Santa Breakfast


When: December 3, 2022
9am – 12pm

Where: Lakeview Regional Medical Center
95 Judge Tanner Blvd.
Mandeville, LA 70448

What: Price: $20 per child, free for parents.

Call 985-893-2570 for More Information.

2022 Festival of the Bonfires, December 11, 2022

There are amusement park rides at this event in Lutcher.

Festival of the Bonfires

When: December 11, 2022
8am – 6pm

Where: Lutcher Recreational Park
2545 Louisiana Avenue
Lutcher, LA 70071

What: Click Here for More Information.

2022 Festival of the Bonfires, December 10, 2022

There are amusement park rides at this event in Lutcher.

Festival of the Bonfires

When: December 10, 2022
9am – 12am

Where: Lutcher Recreational Park
2545 Louisiana Avenue
Lutcher, LA 70071

What: Click Here for More Information.

2022 Festival of the Bonfires December 9, 2022

There are amusement park rides at this event in Lutcher.

Festival of the Bonfires

When: December 9, 2022
2pm – 12am

Where: Lutcher Recreational Park
2545 Louisiana Avenue
Lutcher, LA 70071

What: Click Here for More Information.

’22 Merry Madisonville, December 3, 2022

The parade will begin at the Maritime Museum in Madisonville.

Merry Madisonville

When: December 3, 2022
1pm

Where: Madisonville Park & Playground
1007 Pine St.
Madisonville, LA 70447

What: Click Here for More Information.

23rd Annual Holiday of Lights, December 2- 10, 2022

This event is presented by WDSU in Mandeville.

Annual Holiday of Lights


When: December 2 – 10, 2022
6pm

Where: Tammany Trace Kids Town Pavilion & Kids Konnection Playground
21490 Koop Drive
Mandeville, LA 70471

What: Free Event.

Call (985) 867-9490 for More Information.

Sips of the Season Stroll 2022, December 2, 2022

Throughout the town in Mandeville.

Sips of the Season Stroll

When: December 3, 2021
5pm

Where: Old Mandeville Bars, Pubs and Restaurants
Mandeville, LA 70448

What: $25 mugs to participate

Click Here for More Information.

2022 A Very Merry Christmas Spectacular, December 1-11, 2022

A celebrated holiday play in Mandeville.

30 By Ninety Theatre Presents A Very Merry Christmas Spectacular

When: December 2 – 11, 2022
Friday & Saturday 8PM
Sunday 2:30PM

Where: 30 By Ninety Theatre
880 Lafayette St
Mandeville, Louisiana 70448

What: Contact Margaret Mashburn at 30byninety@gmail.com or Click Here for More Information.

38th Annual Christmas Extravaganza Arts & Crafts Expo 2022, December 2, 2022 – December 4, 2022

Come have pictures with Santa in Covington.

Christmas Extravaganza

When: December 2 – 4, 2022
9am – 5pm

Where: St Tammany Parish Fairgrounds
1301 N Columbia St.
Covington, LA 70433

What: $5 for age 13+, free for age 12 and under

Click Here for More Information.

Covington’s Southern Hotel to Expand

A nice southern home built close to New Orleans.
The place residents and tourists go in downtown Covington is North New Hampshire Street where the Southern Hotel is located.  The Southern Hotel not only is a place for visitors, but also holds several movie houses that show all genres of films.  Within the next couple of years, The Southern Hotel will see another expansion. The project will take The Southern Hotel and expand it to cover the entire block.A patterened wall paper sets this powder room apart. The fixtures in this powder room are simple and handsome in design.
Along with the expansion there will be a new restaurant by BRG Hospitality and a renovated Star Theater. The Star Theater will offer a boutique bowling alley, upscale lounge and music stages.  The expansion has around $17 million in new investments and will be considered the largest transformation of the historic district since the renovation of The Southern Hotel in 2014.
The Southern Hotel boasts 48 rooms and is a boutique style hotel in the heart of downtown Covington.  With the expansion, it is planned to add additional rooms, condos and retail space.  The retail space will be modeled after the 1940s-era storefronts and there will be an additional 43,000 square-foot Mission-style building built on land.  The new building will be named the Summer House and have retail space on the first floor,  hotel rooms on the second floor, a full-service spa on the third floor and four condos on the fourth floor.  The total new building will cost around $11 million.
The Star Theater, a 1942 movie house, will be renovated and will be the largest of the downtown Covington Theaters.  The theater has been vacant since Katrina and before was split into two theaters in the 1970s. The $3 million to $5 million project will include a six-lane boutique bowling alley, and an upscale lounge.  Eventually there will be plans for a roof-top lounge with stages for small acoustic bands.
“We had gone past it so many times, I tried for six months to negotiate a purchase,” said Warren Salles referring to the Star.
The new restaurant by BRG Hospitality will be called TAVI and will be housed in a former barbershop and law office.  TAVI will be under Fariz Choumali, who has been leading the kitchen at Shaya, and will offer a Israeli-Lebanese inspired menu.
“Downtown is becoming a night-time destination, and we have to embrace that,” says Covington Mayor Mark Johnson.  The area has already begun to see an increase in activity since the restrictions from the pandemic were lifted.  “We’re not Mayberry anymore. We’re Mayberry on steroids,” says Johnson.