The Peru Gazette

Source: Westport EMS sounding alarm on volunteer shortage – Sun Community News & Printing

Source: Pieces of Eight: Curiosities From Fort Ti’s Collections – – The Adirondack Almanack

By John T. Ryan Peru – Rehabilitating the Town of Peru’s Lyon Street School is continuing. Randy LaValley Construction is in the process of staining and installing new clapboards on the 150+ year old one-room schoolhouse at the corner of the Lyons Road and Rock Road. School centralization forced the school’s closing in the 1930’s. […]

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Source: First look: Plattsburgh Chick-fil-A readies grand opening – Sun Community News & Printing

The importance of the Battle of Valcour – Source: Tales of red, of blue | News | pressrepublican.com

A fascinating story about our nation and especially Plattsburgh raised money to support WWI Source: World War I: New Yorkers Get Behind the Liberty Ball – – The Adirondack Almanack

Dear Peru School Community, Time is flying and we are already into October. This is a friendly reminder of this week’s events. We are conducting an evacuation drill on Thursday, October 4th and the campus will be closed at 11:30 a.m. and will re-open at 2:45 p.m. (Dr. Palmer emphazed to the Peru Gazette that […]

Dear Peru School Community: The Peru Central School District will be conducting a district-wide, campus evacuation drill on Thursday, October 4, 2018. All students, faculty and staff that are present that day will participate in the drill. The following will happen during the drill: The campus will close to the public at approximately 11:35 a.m. […]

Legislation sponsored by Senator Betty Little and Assemblyman Billy Jones banning the construction of stand-alone mausoleums in New York State was signed into law yesterday by Governor Andrew Cuomo. The North Country lawmakers proposed the measure in the wake of the abandonment of Whispering Maples Memorial Gardens in the towns of Plattsburgh and Ellenburg.  Both […]

Source: Miner Institute and Burke family prepare to honor a legend – Sun Community News & Printing

Source: Clinton County ‘susceptible to fiscal stress,’ report says – Sun Community News & Printing

Source: North Country reacts to new NAFTA deal – Sun Community News & Printing

Peru – Progress is continuing on the Washington Street expansion. Paving took place today. Developer Willian Sawyer is installing the infratructure for 13 new homes. One home has been sold and is under construction. Sawyer plans to also construct two spec homes. Click here to read previous story

  By John T. Ryan Peru – The staff at K&S Body Works at 780 Telegraph Rd. is #45 in our Peru Gazette photo series featuring people who make Peru a great place to live. It was 60 years ago in 1958, when Karl and Shirley Schweikert transformed the Schweikert family dairy barn into an […]

By John T. Ryan Peru – The Town of Peru Highway Department has been upgrading and widening the Liberty Rd. over the past several days. Highway Superintendent Michael Farrell said either a stone chip – oil base or ashphalt will be laid down on the 432 ft. road. Liberty Rd. is one of the town […]

Source: Comptroller: City in ‘moderate fiscal stress’ – Sun Community News & Printing

Source: New Adirondack Welcome Center enthralls visitors, area officials – Sun Community News & Printing

PLATTSBURGH, NY – The Strand Center for the Arts (SCA) is proud to announce that Bob Garcia has been hired as its new Executive Director. Mr. Garcia will continue to connect and unite the North Country through art as well take the helm while the Arts Center and Theatre embark onto the next phases of […]

Source: Last run of the season for Fort Ticonderoga Ferry

Source: As Invasive Waterflea Spreads, Another Confirmed In Champlain – – The Adirondack Almanack

Source: Cabot Creamery enduring major losses in U.S.-China trade war – VTDigger

Source: He Was Governor Cuomo’s Closest Aide. Now He’s Going to Prison for 6 Years. – The New York Times

Source: UVM medical center and nurses end labor dispute: How each side fared

By John T Ryan Peru – Anyone traveling down Old Town Rd. this morning couldn’t help but be struck by the contrasting crop harvesting methods. On one side of the highway Adirondack Farms’ 600+ horsepower corn harvester was filling a huge truck and clearing a 15-acre field in a matter of minutes. About 100 feet […]