Archive for 'Agricultural News'
Farmers’ Market season begins in the Adirondack Region
Local Food, Artisans, and Community Gather Weekly Across the Region Lewis, NY – The 2025 summer farmers’ market season is officially underway across the Adirondack region, offering an array of locally grown and made food, unique crafts, and a sense of community. From Memorial Day weekend through early fall, markets will be held weekly in […]
Posted: June 16th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Business News, Community Events, General News, Northern NY News.
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Regular Monthly School Board Meeting June 2025
The Peru CSD Board of Education will hold its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, at 6:00 PM in the High School Community Room. It is anticipated that an executive session will take place immediately following the 6:00 PM start, and that the Board will reconvene for open public session business at approximately […]
Posted: June 5th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Education News, Northern NY News, Peru News, Peru School News.
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Very special sign unveiled at Babble Rural and Farm Learning Museum
By John T Ryan May 22, 2025 – Peru, NY Babbie Rural and Farm Learning Museum opened for its 2025 season last weekend. Saturday’s first highlight was the unveiling of a new roadside museum sign. After fifteen years in the elements, it was time! The museum’s new sign is special because Peru art teacher and […]
Posted: May 22nd, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Arts and Entertainment, Community Events, Education News, General News, Northern NY News, Peru News, Peru/Regional History.
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Learn about creation and success of Peru Town Market
Posted: May 21st, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Business News, City News, Community Events, Northern NY News.
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They did their job, now they’re on the way home
Peru, NY, May 20, 2025 – 340 bee hives from Forrence and Sullivan Orchards departed Peru today for home in Rome, NY. Forrence Orchard trees were fully blossomed when temperatures were in the high seventies and low eighties making it for ideal pollination conditions. Seth Forrence said, “It was a beautiful bloom, short and sweet, […]
Posted: May 20th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Business News, Environmental News, Faces of Peru, General News, Peru/Regional History.
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Peru students design new Babbie Farm Museum sign
The Babbie Rural & Farm Learning Museum is thrilled to announce the unveiling of its new museum sign. Peru School students, along with their teacher, designed and painted the new sign. The sign will be revealed during a special 10:00 AM ceremony on the museum’s opening day, Saturday, May 17th. To celebrate this special occasion, the museum […]
Posted: May 16th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Community Events, General News, Northern NY News, Peru News, Peru School News, Youth News.
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Several farmworkers detained in Vermont to have bond hearing this week
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Posted: May 14th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Border News, Law Enforcement News, Regional NY-VT News.
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Vermont agriculture secretary says dairy farmers are concerned about migrant farmworker arrests
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Posted: May 8th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Law Enforcement News, Regional NY-VT News.
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North Country at Work: Growing legal weed in Essex
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Posted: May 1st, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History.
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‘These guys work six 12-hour days’: VT dairy farms anxious after migrant workers arrested
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Posted: April 25th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Law Enforcement News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Regional NY-VT News.
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Plattsburgh’s spring artisan market, and many events set for Adirondacks from April 25-May 1
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Posted: April 25th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Arts and Entertainment, Business News, Community Events, Northern NY News.
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US Border Patrol arrests 8 migrant workers at Berkshire dairy
The incident constitutes the largest immigration enforcement action against migrant workers in Vermont in recent memory. Click here for the VTDigger story
Posted: April 23rd, 2025 under Agricultural News, Border News, Community Events, Law Enforcement News, National News, Regional NY-VT News.
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Chobani to build ‘thriving center of food production’ in Rome, creating more than 1,000 jobs
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Posted: April 22nd, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Community Events, General News, Upstate New York.
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60 MINUTES – NEWSMAKERS Bird flu, feared as a possible pandemic, poses growing risk to people as pathogen spreads, scientists warn
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Posted: April 21st, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Education News, Environmental News, Heathcare News, National History, National News.
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An Open Secret’: Sackets Harbor ICE Raid Shows the ‘Reality’ of New York Dairy Country
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Posted: April 14th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, General News, National News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Social Issues.
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Dairy farmer Blake Gendebien claims $3M fundraising haul, continues actively campaigning for NY-21
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Posted: April 12th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Congressional News, Northern NY News, Political News.
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1,700 pounds of Cabot butter recalled in New York, Vermont and 5 other states for possible fecal contamination
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Posted: April 11th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Heathcare News, National News, Northern NY News, Religious News.
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Sackets Harbor family detained by ICE is returning home to the North Country
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Posted: April 7th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Border News, Business News, Law Enforcement News, National History, Northern NY News, Political News, State Government News.
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Trump freeze leaves New York farmers in limbo
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Posted: April 3rd, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Business News, Congressional News, Corruption in Gov't., National History, National News, Northern NY News, Upstate New York.
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North Country dairy farms are getting caught up in Trump’s immigration enforcement
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Posted: April 3rd, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Border News, Business News, Law Enforcement News, National History, National News, Northern NY News, Political News, Upstate New York.
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Sackets Harbor community calls for return of three children taken during ICE dairy farm visit
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Posted: April 1st, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Law Enforcement News, National News, Northern NY News, Political News.
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Vermont’s changing agricultural landscape brings lawmakers new questions about protecting — and regulating — farms What kind of farming practices should be encouraged, which are tolerable, which should be disallowed — and who decides?
Lake Champlain Polution is an issue in VT ag Click here for the VTDigger story
Posted: April 1st, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Business News, Environmental News, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Regional NY-VT News.
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Vermont agriculture community reels from federal funding changes
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Posted: March 16th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Environmental News, National News, Northern NY News, Political News, Regional NY-VT News.
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Program that sends local food to Vermont schools loses funding in Trump cuts
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Posted: March 14th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Education News, National News, Political News, Regional NY-VT News.
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Excessive rise in bee deaths are impacting local honey producers as well as crop pollination on a national level
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Posted: March 12th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Business News, Environmental News, National News, Northern NY News.
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