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04/15/2008

Algiers family searches for missing water meter
All that Kathleen and Carl Nettleton wanted was an accurate water bill. And after finding out the bill was being estimated by the Sewerage and Water Board, they plead to have their meter read.

03/12/2008

Channel 4 Follow Up: McKenna Street canyon gets filled in
Residents on an Uptown neighborhood celebrated Wednesday, one day after worrying about what they felt was a major safety hazard.

* Uptown pothole continues to grow into canyon
Residents in a New Orleans neighborhood are wondering when their street will become totally impassable, or even cave in completely.

02/08/2008

Action Report: Metairie man in a 'Catch-22' over FEMA trailer
The FEMA trailer in Robert Sigsworth's backyard is driving him crazy, because Jefferson Parish officials are charging him with violating parish ordinances, which demand that the trailers used for emergency housing after Katrina be removed.

* 02/07/2008

Action Report: Westwego couple says living in FEMA trailer an "endurance contest"
After months of seeking help from maintenance crews and FEMA, a Westwego couple said the last four months inside their trailer have become an endurance contest.

* 01/30/2008

Action Report: St. Charles neighborhood complains about broken streetlights
Residents along a stretch of St. Charles Avenue said nighttime parades roll in the dark, without streetlights. They said the lights have not worked since Hurricane Katrina in the 2700 block of St. Charles, and only intermittently in the 2600 block, which makes the nighttime parades a challenge for spectators.

* 01/23/2008

Action Report: Homeless center in need of better security after break-in
Just four months after it opened to help the homeless, the Rebuild Center was closed this past week. Inside, inside every door lock was being changed to provide a new, sturdier barrier following a break-in which wrecked the doors of a medicine cabinet, and ruined a petty cash lockbox.

* 01/11/2008

Action Report: Repairing historic grounds in French Quarter
The historic Pirates' Alley in the French Quarter reopened Friday with a ribbon cutting ceremony, following two months and $75,000 worth of repairs.

* 01/03/2008

Action Report: Mother has trouble getting FEMA to move trailer
Mary Knapper said she cannot wait to move into the new home that she and her disabled son, Anthony, need.

* 12/19/2007

Action Report: Group says homeless will be out of Duncan Plaza by Friday
Unity leaders said Wednesday many of the tents pitched in Duncan Plaza were empty now that the group has found apartments or hotel rooms for more than 200 people since Thanksgiving. The group plans to find housing for the remaining 70 people by Friday’s deadline.

* 11/28/2007

Action Report: Neighbors worry cars will fall into large sinkhole
New Orleans streets can sometimes be a challenge to drive down, but in this case, the signs and barrels placed across Prentiss Boulevard at Pasteur Street are warning about a real danger: a hole wide enough to block most of the road and it’s had neighbors worried for months.

* Action Report: Agency creates boarding house for out of state recovery volunteers
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, people from all over are still coming to the city to help victims repair flood-damaged homes. In fact, the trips remain so popular one agency is doubling the number of beds available for volunteers who need a place to stay.

* 11/15/2007

Action Report: N.O. East home an eyesore since Katrina
One New Orleans East neighborhood is beginning to look like it did pre-Katrina and those who live here are proud of the results of two-years of enormous effort.

* 11/13/2007

Action Report: Ninth Ward resident suffers unexpected setback in recovery
Calvin Brown is 82-years old, and he surveys his nearly completed Upper Ninth Ward house, knowing only the finishing touches remain before he can move back in to the house he bought after Hurricane Betsy, the place several generations of his family grew up in. There's no way he would not come home.

* 11/02/2007

Faced with $14,000 water bill, woman calls Action Reporter
Sixty-four-year old Verrena Wallace already faced the challenge of raising her three grandchildren, but for the last four months, they have endured life in their small, cramped FEMA trailer without running water.

10/11/2007

Doctor waits for trailer to be removed so he can reopen his clinic
A New Orleans eye doctor says only one major obstacle remains in his plan to reopen his Canal Street clinic – the FEMA trailer that blocks much of the parking lot.

* 10/03/2007

Action Report: Woman says thieves stole checks out of her mailbox
Most people probably wouldn’t think twice before putting outgoing mail in their mailboxes for a postal carrier to pick up, but one Westbank woman says that practice nearly cost her thousands of dollars when thieves stole her mail.

* 09/26/2007

Volunteers needed to help first responders, elderly rebuild their lives
It is anything but a vacation as nine members of the Order of Malta repair the Kitchen in Emelda Thomas' Treme home. They paid their way here from all over the country, made donations to help cover construction costs and then went to work.

* 09/17/2007

New program offers help to working homeless
Before Katrina, the New Orleans Mission provided meals for the needy and emergency shelter for 250 men a night, and Monday they announced a new mission.

* 09/04/2007

City's homeless receive outpouring of compassion from N.O. residents
As the sun set on Labor Day, more than 50 men and women prepared to spend the night under the gazebo in Duncan Plaza, or around the park and in public buildings nearby – but things have changed in the last few months as New Orleans residents have shown an outpouring of compassion for the city’s homeless.

* 06/29/2007

Rotting Lakeview home impeding neighborhood's progress
On one block in Lakeview, rebuilding is humming along with just about every home repaired, in the process of repair, or at least torn down.