The Peru Gazette

Rev. Alan Shnob, Pastor of St. Augustine’s Parish congratulates Maryann Keenan and Larry Ewald Sr., recipients of the 2009 Golden Rose Award in recognition of their many years of dedicated service to the parish.  They received their awards at a recent Sunday Mass. 

The Peru Gazette previously published a story on the April 19th fundraiser at the Peru VFW to benefit Peru resident Tyler Haudberg and his family.  The Press Republican published a similar story on March 30th. Hopefully everyone in our town will turn out in a spirit of unity to support this family in need!

By John T. Ryan The New York State Association of Realtors released its February 2009 existing single family home sales survey on March 26, 2009.  Clinton County’s sales totals declined 40.6% from February of 2008 with nineteen homes sold in 2009 compared to thirty-two homes sold last year. Statewide sales were down by 26.8% during […]

According to a front page story in the March 27th Clinton County Free Trader Today the Peru Free Library has received a $67,000 grant that will fund installation of solar panels, repairs to the roof, replacement of  the furnace and front sidewalk.  Read the story

By Rodney Brown Updated March 28, 2009. (A link to the Draft Open Space Plan appears at the end of Mr. Brown’s story) On Tuesday, March 31st at 7:00pm the Committee to Implement the Comprehensive Plan, along with consultant Nan Stolzenberg of Community Planning and Environmental Associates, will present a draft document titled “Town of […]

By Rachel Daly  To be back in Nicaragua this year was quite a feeling. We arrived in the middle of the night on an antiquated but functioning bus, and as the compound came into view, there was comfort just in seeing it again. I was ready to be back with the Nicaraguan people I had […]

  By John T. Ryan On April 22, 2009 Tyler Haudberg will be celebrating his third birthday. Unfortunately, he won’t be celebrating it at his parent’s home on the Union Road here in Peru. Instead, he’ll probably still be in the Boston Children’s Hospital where he’s being evaluated for a double lung and heart transplant. […]

By John T. Ryan It’s official – on March 19th  the Peru Gazette reached 10,000 site visits.  We went online on September 17, 2008 and recently we’ve been averaging 65 to 70 daily site visits. People from twenty-nine countries and forty-seven states have viewed our pages.  While local people are our most regular readers, people […]

By John T. Ryan Peru residents Dr. Tracy Orkin and her daughter Alice Robinson were two of the eight Peru residents who made the recent Mission of Hope trip to Nicaragua. This was the second mission trip for Alice, a senior at Peru Central, while this was her mother’s first trip. As Alice said, “It […]

By John T. Ryan The Peru Gazette previously reported on the Mulcahy’s and Daly’s preparation for their Mission of Hope trip to Nicaragua.  Brian Mulcahy, his daughter Samantha, Matt Daly his daughter Rachel and son Patrick were in Nicaragua February 15th through February 24th.

By John T. Ryan In August, 2008 Lori Clark and a group of friends climbed Africa’s Kilimanjaro.  Now Lori has completed another goal.  Already, an “Adirondack 46er” she became a  “Winter 46er” when she reached the summit of Basin Mountain. She has climbed all the Adirondack High Peaks during the winter months.  While Lori says she […]

By Jean Ryan The hike to Redfield and Cliff (See photos) was a “makeup” climb for me as I had been sidelined by a stomach bug when Colleen Kaulfuss, Lori Clark and Joanne Kennedy climbed these two peaks in January. On Saturday, March 7, 2009 Colleen, Lori and I met Lyle Montgomery who had driven […]

Alpha Pi Tau, a registered chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society at Clinton Community College in Plattsburgh, NY, is starting a service project to collect items and monetary donations on behalf of the Elmore SPCA located in Peru.

By Carol Solari-Rusco The Elmore SPCA Board of Directors is compiling a history of the Elmore SPCA. In 1964, the Clinton County Humane Society, Inc which dates back to the mid-1940’s, legally changed its name to the Elmore SPCA, Inc in honor of benefactor Elmore G. Elmore. Over the years, records have disappeared leaving us […]

Two youths sponsored by St. Augustine’s Knights of Columbus Council 7273 were among the ten winners of the 36th annual Northern Conference Knights of Columbus Free Throw Contest held at Massena Central High School on Saturday, March 7, 2009. Emily O’Connor won the twelve year old girls competition and Zane Bazzano won the twelve year […]

Don McBrayer sent in this report. He lives at the corner of Route 22 and the Bear Swamp Road. On March 6th around 7PM a transformer blew in front of the Grand Union knocking power out for everyone on Rt. 22 and Bear Swamp Road.

The Peru Water Department has requested that the Peru Gazette publish this notice: VIOLATION NOTICE The Town of Peru has to sample quarterly for total trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids to comply with the disinfection by-products rule for E.P.A. and New York State. Test results for the 4th quarter of 2008 exceeded the allowable maximum contaminant […]

By John T. Ryan Members of Peru VFW Post 309 responded when their country called and the local community responded last Sunday, March 1st, when the Post asked for help. Community members turned out in large numbers at a fund-raiser for the financially strapped organization. Committee Chairman Reginald Besaw reports that $7,800

The Press Republican reports

By John T. Ryan The real estate sales decline came to Clinton County more slowly than some other parts of the New York State, but it appears that the decline has arrived and it is severe.

By Carol Solari-Ruscoe “The Elmore SPCA now has its own dedicated website at www.elmorespca.org <http://www.elmorespca.org/> .  The website is user friendly.  There are links to the shelter’s adoptable cats and dogs, a listing of the Board of Directors and shelter staff, and a contact/feedback email address.  In addition, secure donations can be made directly on […]

From our campsite here we go east on the famous Apache trail, a road that was built over the original Apache trail around 1900 to haul materials to build Roosevelt Dam.  Most of the road is still dirt and has hairpin curves with unprotected drop offs 1500 feet down to the valley floor and fish creek below.  Spectacular scenery […]

By Adele Douglas Ever since I heard about Cape Air’s service to Boston I’ve been hoping to go.  A couple of weeks ago I made an agenda with kid friendly activities and booked the flights.  This was to be a mother and daughter outing, as dad doesn’t like to fly, especially on small planes. 

The Press Republican reports

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