The Peru Gazette

Source: ‘Your blank canvas awaits’: Rustic Pines Barn to host events | News | pressrepublican.com

Source: Work to transform vacant Pfizer property into industrial park continues | Local News | pressrepublican.com

Source: Campground expansion, ropes course, solar project, more up for public comment

Source: Adirondack Loj Road closes temporarily due to cement truck rollover

Schenectady, N.Y. – Price Chopper/Market 32 and its trade partner Freihofer’s have just completed another successful annual corporate giving program, raising more than $200,000 to benefit three organizations: Muscular Dystrophy Association, Cure Rare Disease, and the Melodies Center at Albany Medical Center Hospital. The supermarket chain promoted the purchase of specific Freihofer’s products in its […]

From the North Country Chamber of Commerce The LCLGRPB COVID-19 Small Business Recovery Program is for working capital needs that relate directly to economic injury as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic or equipment and facility upgrades necessary to comply with heightened safety and social distancing protocols (such as expansion of outdoor dining space or […]

“With last week’s extreme cold shutting down millions of barrels per day in refinery capacity, gas prices have seen their largest weekly climb in quite some time,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy. “The jump in price was the result of a dozen or so refineries, primarily in Texas, that were […]

Source: NY sets rules for dancing at events: Get down in your own dance zone only – syracuse.com

Source: Essex County looks to create fairgrounds marketing position | Sun Community News ELIZABETHTOWN | An Essex County committee agreed last week to move forward with a marketing position for the fairgrounds in Westport, an underused facility that, with a little

Source: North Country at Work: an Adirondack Logger keeps working in the woods | NCPR News

Source: Farm Bureau backs path to citizenship for undocumented dairy workers | NCPR News

By John T. Ryan Peru – Nick Weaver, became the new owner of The Little Pizza Shop in January 2020. Educated as a computer programmer and machinist, Weaver was working out of state until a little over a year ago. Not happy with his job, he returned to his hometown to try something new. What […]

Thanks to the North Country Chamber of Commerce for the information.  January sales tax figures released by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli again show most of our area counties performing significantly better than sales tax receipts statewide which were down 5.9% compared with January 2020. Clinton, Essex, Franklin and Hamilton Counties were down just 2.2%, 2.1%, […]

Source: Seed shortage worries farmers, home gardeners – VTDigger

Source: $14.5M upgrade planned for Burlington International Airport

Source: CityPlace agreement now on track for approval, with labor protections – VTDigger

February 22, 2021. From day one, we have said that our COVID recovery is not a choice between public health and the economy—it has to take into account both and work for all. Thanks to the hard work of all New Yorkers, our infection rate is now the lowest we’ve seen in three months, and […]

Source: Fighting since Day One: Local snowmobiler LaGoy reflects on accident, recovery | News | pressrepublican.com

Chazy, New York. Unprecedented agricultural water quality research funded by the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) is producing significant insight into how nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen are transported across and through soil. On February 24, 2021, project leader Laura Klaiber, a nutrient management researcher at the Miner Institute in Chazy, New […]

Source: UPS ends relationship with Vermont franchise owner who refused to enforce mask mandate

PLATTSBURGH — Plattsburgh International Airport will temporarily close its runway, thus suspending incoming or outgoing flights, from April 13 through about June 22 to allow for the repaving of almost 4,400 feet of the runway’s middle portion. Source: Plattsburgh International to temporarily close runway | Local News | pressrepublican.com

Source: Police say Newport UPS store is refusing to comply with the state’s mask mandate

February 17, 2021. All of our decisions are guided by science and data and we adjust as the virus adjusts. With continued decreases in the infection and hospitalization rates, we are able to take steps in our post-COVID recovery and we are now in a place where we can bring back our recreational industries with […]

Source: Burlington businesses decide to open during the pandemic

Source: CityPlace agreement on the rocks over union labor requirements – VTDigger