The Peru Gazette

Peru – Town Board Meeting, Monday, April 27, 2015 – A four-year long court case has been expensive for both the Town of Peru and for Henry and Kevin Dashnaw, owners of the Adirondack Golf and Country Club. The Town of Peru has spent in excess of $65,000. The Dashnaw’s attorney Matthew Norfolk has stated […]

Catholic census underway throughout North Country – Press-Republican: News.

Peru Woman Prepares To Run Across Country For Young Adults With Cancer – myChamplainValley.com.

PLATTSBURGH, NY – The Strand Center for the Arts is proud to announce the new exhibit opening in May, “Clairvoyance II: Art of the Visually Impaired.” This exhibit features artwork from the Northeastern Association of the Blind at Albany Blind Artist Society (NABA BAS), Central Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CABVI), and the […]

Bailey Wind will be speaking to the Peru Jr/Sr High School student body on May 12th at 9:30 am. Bailey had just signed her letter of intent with the University of Tennessee’s Swimming and Diving team when on December 1, 2012, at the age of 17 and a senior at Shaker High School in Latham, New […]

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Developer, Town of Peru battle over road ownership – Press-Republican: Local News.

Peru Central budget would add principal – Press-Republican: Local News.

By John T. Ryan Peru’s newer residents probably know Lynn Wilke as the gentleman riding about town in the small black Hyundai with the yellow flashing light on the top. Longtime Peru residents know Mr. Wilke as the former Peru High School music teacher and band director (1952-85). Others know him as a Plattsburgh College […]

New Yorkers scammed by Dallas-based Ambit Energy.

Peru Central’s Board of Education will be holding a special meeting on Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 6:00 PM in the Jr/Sr High School Community Room. The Board is expected to immediately proceed into Executive Session for the purpose of discussing employment history of a particular individual. No other school board or school district business […]

The United Way of the Adirondack Region, Inc. will have their 15th Annual Olympian Celebrity Golf Classic on Thursday, June 11, 2015. This year the tournament will be held at the Lake Placid Club Mountain Course in Lake Placid. This unique event randomly pairs an Olympic athlete or other Celebrity with a registered three person […]

By John T. Ryan Peru – It’s unusual for a 10th grader to have made a career choice, but two Peru High School students have decided; they want to be professional fishermen. Perry Marvin Jr. (16) and Alec Morrison (15) have reason for optimism. Over the past several years both boys have won numerous state […]

Peru Central School District’s Board of Education will have a brief, special meeting on the morning of Thursday, April 23rd at 7:30 AM in the Jr/Sr High School Community Room. Thursday morning’s brief special meeting will focus exclusively on consideration of the BOCES administrative budget for the 2015‐2016 school year and consideration of candidates running […]

4th Sunday Breakfast April 26th, 2015 9 a.m. – Noon Peru VFW & Ladies Auxiliary 710 Pleasant St, Peru, NY 12901 Bacon, scrambled eggs, biscuits & sausage gravy, corned beef hash, pancakes, juice & coffee. ONLY $8.00 All proceeds to benefit veterans and their families. LAST BREAKFAST of the SEASON.

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By John T. Ryan Children, parents and staff walking or biking to the Peru Central School should have a safer route to travel in a few months. On Monday, April 13, 2015 the Peru Town Board approved a $143,729 bid from Branon Construction Company Inc. of Plattsburg to implement a second Safe Routes to Schools […]

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY-21) voted in support of H.R. 1105, the Death Tax Repeal Act of 2015. This bipartisan legislation that Congresswoman Stefanik cosponsored would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the estate and generation-skipping transfer tax, commonly referred to as the “death tax”. “Whenever I travel throughout […]

Peru School budget calls for additional principal – Press-Republican: Education.

Each year our weather transition seems to be from winter to summer; spring no longer exists or if it does only very briefly.  Last Thursday morning, April 9, 2015 Peru had about 4″ of snow on the ground. Yesterday, the Peru High baseball team was playing a home game against Saranac in 74 degree temperatures. […]

By John T. Ryan Spring Break is a time for many North Country residents to travel south to enjoy the warm of sun. Each year the Peru Community Church Senior High Youth Group also travels, but not quite as far south as most people. The group stops in Washington D.C. where they serve the homeless […]

Peru – St. Augustine’s Knights of Columbus Council 7273 will host a spaghetti dinner on Saturday, April 18th at the St. Augustine’s Parish Center. “ALL YOU CAN EAT” spaghetti, salad, Italian bread and a delicious dessert will be served from 4:30 to 6:30 PM for only $7.50 per person, $2.50 for children 6 to 12, […]

Do you or anyone you know possess a photo of the Peru Grange Hall which once located at the site of current Peru Town Hall? Town Historian Ron Allen needs the photo to complete the town’s historical collection and to include it on one of the historical signs to be placed along Main Street. Ron […]

Peru Central’s Board of Education launches its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 5:30 PM at the school district’s Community Room, adjacent to the main entrance of Peru Jr/Sr High School. An executive session associated with particular personnel matters will take place immediately following the 5:30 PM start. The school board is […]

The Peru Central School District is seeking candidates to fill two (2) vacancies on the Board of Education, due to the expiration of the terms of Ms. Cynthia Mills and Ms. Jill Folsom. Both seats are at large for a five-year term from July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2020. The ‘Petition for Nomination of […]