The Peru Gazette

How much money a school can spend on its students still depends, in large part, on local property taxes. And many states aren’t doing much to level the field for poor kids. Source: How School Funding’s Reliance On Property Taxes Fails Children : NPR

Town of Peru 2016 Presidential Primary Election Results Not including 43 Affidavit Ballots and 14 Emergency Ballots Republican Party Donald Trump 299 John Kasich 159 Ben Carson 6 Ted Cruz 94 Democratic Party Bernie Sanders 349 Hillary Clinton 128 1,050 or 39% of Peru’s 2,838 Registered Republicans and Democrats cast ballots.

Registered Republicans and Democrats were lined up at noon to vote in the Presidential Primary when polls opened at the St. Augustine’s Parish Center. Voting continues until 9 p.m. The Peru Gazette will be there when the votes are counted. We’ll post the Peru results as soon as possible.

For the past several days Peru Highway personnel have been picking up winter sand and salt along hamlet roadsides. Now they’re moving into Peru’s several subdivisions. Today they’re in Quaker Springs. Ormsby Circle and Quaker Highlands are next. The good weather is expediting this year’s cleanup, which is expected to last three to four weeks. […]