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Route 73 lane closures in Keene & North Elba beginning Aug. 11 for re-surfacing project

The New York State Department of Transportation is advising motorists that State Route 73 in towns of Keene and North Elba, Essex County, will be reduced to one lane of alternating travel controlled by flaggers between Gilmore Hill Road and Lower Cascade Lake (in Keene), and between Bobsled Run Lane and Recycle Circle Lane (in […]

July 28, 2025 Peru Town Board Meeting Highlights

Telegraph Road Culvert: Highway Superintendent Michael Farrell reported that NYSEG is conducting a study on accommodating the massive crane needed to install the road’s new culvert.  Farrell did not know how long NYNEG would take, but said that it’s less and less likely that the project will begin this year. The town was planning to advertise […]

New home construction underway on Washington Street

By John T Ryan (Please Share) Peru, NY, July 30, 2025 – After an almost eight-year pause, new home construction is underway on Washington Street. Ken Silver III, owner of Silver III Construction, purchased the Orchard View Development in March 2024. He immediately began working on enlarging the drainage basin and reaching an agreement with […]

New York electric school bus mandate unaffordable, illogical, say rural Adirondack districts

Click here for the Adirondack Explorer story 

Peru, NY July 29, 2024, 6:15 a.m. A beautiful time for a wakeup walk at Heyworth Mason Park

Billy Jones, the North Country’s only Democratic state lawmaker, is resigning

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Tesla EV chargers attracting visitors to Peru

Peru, NY, July 27, 2025 – It has been just over a year since the Peru Zoning Board approved Tesla’s building permit. However, beginning about two weeks ago, eight Tesla EV chargers have been functioning at Peru Stewart’s Shop. At 1:30 p.m. today, a local resident gave his Tesla Model 3 a five-minute charge on […]

St. Augustine’s Community Meal/Soup Kitchen Menu for Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Chicken & Biscuits  Salad  Fruit  Dessert  Served 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., take-out only, at St. Augustine’s Parish Center, 3030 Main St., Peru, NY 12972  All are invited and welcome!

2025 Honor Flight golf tournament a resounding success

More than $45K raised through annual effort and support from the Carpenter family Click here for the Sun Community News story 

Kathy Hochul’s Nuclear Vision Faces Big Questions and Bottlenecks

Building nuclear will test whether New York state is still capable of constructing megaprojects as it has done in the past. Click here for the New York Focus story 

DiNapoli: Former Essex County Fair Treasurer and Willsboro Town Clerk ordered to pay full restitution for theft of nearly $90K

State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, Franklin County District Attorney Elizabeth Crawford, and New York State Police Superintendent Steven G. James announced that Bridget Brown, the former treasurer of the Essex County Agricultural Society and former Willsboro town clerk/tax collector, was sentenced to serve five years probation and ordered to pay full restitution of nearly $90,000 […]

Housing projects making progress in Burlington; more units to come on market by end of 2025

“We’ll have some preferences for folks who are homeless, but then people who are basically low and moderate income people, probably a good number of folks working will be able to come here; again, preference for the veterans” Click here for the MYNBC5 story 

North Country PBS stations plan big changes to deal with federal funding cuts

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Town crews put finishing touches on Telegraph Road paving job

July 24, 2035 – Peru Town Highway personnel were out early this morning putting smooth sloped, paved shoulders on newly paved Telegraph Road. 

One-stop-shop for military, veterans and family members interested in SUNY

July 21, 2025 – Governor Kathy Hochul announced the launch of a one-stop-shop for active duty service members, veterans, and family members currently enrolled or interested in attending any SUNY college or university. The landing page: www.suny.edu/military, includes information on available credit for military service and experience, tuition assistance, specialized scholarships, and dedicated campus services […]

Migrant workers in Vermont navigate fear, uncertainty amid deportation crackdown

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Early season work targets milfoil at Fish Creek Campground

July 21, 2025 Upper Saranac Foundation News Release – A professional dive team has completed early season aquatic invasive species (AIS) management at Fish Creek Campground, removing over 1,300 pounds of Eurasian and variable-leaf watermilfoil. The work was performed by the Upper Saranac Foundation’s (USF) dive team and was part of the Fish Creek AIS […]

Town of Schuyler Falls Field Day – Free to attend, music & games & rides free  — crafts and vendors and food for sale.  All are welcome.

Saturday, July 26, from 11 am to 10 pm. Open to all!!!    Activities for the entire family!! WHAT :  Town of Schuyler Falls Field Day WHEN:  Saturday, July 26, 2025,  from 11 AM to 10 PM WHERE:   Jefferson Dukette Memorial Park, 618 Salmon River Rd (Plattsburgh mailing address;    between Military Turnpike and Mason St in […]

$3.8M in Smart Growth Grants available to Adirondack and Catskill Park communities

Click here for the Adirondack Almanac story 

St. Augustine’s Community Meal/Soup Kitchen Menu for Wednesday, July 13, 2025

Shepherd’s Pie  Fruit  Bread  Dessert  Served 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., take-out only, at St. Augustine’s Parish Center, 3030 Main St., Peru, NY 12972  All are invited and welcome!

How the Lake Monsters kept swimming

A few years ago, the future of baseball in Burlington was uncertain. In 2020, Major League Baseball shrunk its minor league circuit, and teams like the Lake Monsters were left on the outside looking in. Click here for the VTDigger story 

Federal Funding Rescinded — Mountain Lake PBS Faces Immediate Cuts

Mountain Lake PBS Report – July 17, Congress voted to rescind previously approved funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a move that eliminates nearly $1 billion in support for local public media stations across the country.   For Mountain Lake PBS, that means an immediate cut of approximately $950,000. More than a third of […]

July 19, 2025 – Ausable Point State Park

NY halts offshore wind projects after President Trump pauses permits

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U.S. Army to shut down Clarkson University’s ROTC program

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