The Peru Gazette

Town of Keene Essex County Wildland Fire: On Aug 31 at 6:30 p.m., Ray Brook Dispatch received a call from a hiker on Noonmark Mountain reporting sustained smoke in the sky. At 3:32 a.m., three Forest Rangers located a fire approximately four miles from the Round Pond trailhead, near Gravestone Brook on the side of Bear […]

Thursday, 18 September 2025, 6:30 p.m. at Krinovitz Recital Hall, Hawkins Hall, at SUNY Plattsburgh PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — The Clinton County Historical Association, in partnership with SUNY Plattsburgh’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, will host historian Dr. Alexandria Russell for a public lecture on Thursday, September 18, at 6:30 p.m. in the Krinovitz Recital Hall, Hawkins […]

Index Crime Down in Plattsburgh As Gun Seizures Are Up 57 Percent and Extreme Risk Protection Orders Up 26 Percent Across the North Country Sept. 9, 2025 News Release – Governor Kathy Hochul today updated New Yorkers on the State’s efforts to enhance New York’s Northern Border security and prevent transnational criminal organizations from trafficking […]

Plattsburgh, NY: U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand came to Alstom’s Plattsburgh railcar manufacturing facility last Friday with good news. As a member of the Senate’s Appropriations Committee and Transportation subcommittee, she should be able to secure an additional $350,000 for Clinton County’s Institute for Advanced Manufacturing. The appropriation still must be approved by the full Senate […]

CALL MEETING TO ORDER PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ROLL CALL APPROVAL of  August  2025 minutes OPEN FLOOR to public hearing APPLICATIONS: Z2025-016 Area Variance, Erich Lutz, Matthew Ingram, 280.1-3-12, 3019 Main St. Z2025-107Area Variance, Leonard Jozwiak II,  768 Bear Swamp Rd, Peru, NY 12972 7. CEO REPORT 8. ADJOURNMENT Christine Crawford Codes & Zoning Secretary Town […]

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** From Seeds They Grew: The Roots Of American Gospel Music, featuring the incomparable Plattsburgh State Gospel Choir led by Dr. Dexter Criss performing a wide variety of acoustic Gospel choral and instrumental renditions characteristic of the time period — Saturday, Sept. 13, 4 p.m.  ** Music of the Night: Mozart’s E-flat Major Serenade, with Daniel Gordon leading members of […]

The New York Times and New York Focus gathered thousands of files from around half of New York’s nearly 500 law enforcement agencies. Click here for the Times-Union story 

Police Officers crashed their official vehicles, hit other motorists and arrived to work reeking of alcohol. And yet, they sometimes evaded criminal punishment, an investigation found. Click here for the New York Focus story 

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