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Archive for 'Peru/Regional History'

Saturday, May 24 – Ledge Hill North (the former Livingoods) Grand Opening

Celebratory ribbon cutting for new Keeseville Waterfront Park June 4

Following years of planning and fundraising, Waterfront Park readies to open Click here for the Sun Community News story 

Town of Peru History Walk – May 31, 10 am, Peru Town Hall, 3036 Main Street

Join Town of Peru Historian Helen Nerska with Bob McGee and Christina Irwin Mullen for a history walk through downtown Peru from Main Street to Pleasant Street to Elm Street and concluding at the Heyworth/Mason Park. Share your stories of Old Peru and hear new ones. Should weather be a concern, call Helen at 513-582-7246 […]

Assemblyman Billy Jones: State Budget includes important funding for the North Country, but lacks support for corrections

Assemblyman Jones News Release The State Budget passed last night that included several victories for economic development, older adults, recreation, agriculture, veterans, education, and local governments. This includes $1.7 million increase in library aid, $21.4 million for teacher resource centers, a $1.4 billion increase to foundation aid for local school districts, $2.5 billion in capital […]

NYS Budget News from Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie

Enacted SFY 2025-26 Budget Includes $37.6 Billion in School Aid Enacted Budget Includes $1.4 Billion Increase in Foundation Aid and Changes to the Foundation Aid Formula Speaker Carl Heastie, Education Committee Chair Michael Benedetto and Libraries and Educational Technology Chair Robert Caroll today announced the Enacted State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2025-26 Budget provides $37.6 billion […]

Plattsburgh Mayor Wendell Hughes appoints Lt. Jarrod Trombley as police chief

Click here for the NBC5 story 

Peru Free Library Seeks Community Support with Budget Vote

Peru Free Library is seeking an increase in funding through Proposition 3 on the school board & budget ballot. If the proposition is approved by voters, the cost to individual property owners would be modest. For example, a homeowner whose home is assessed at $200,000 would pay a total of $2.89 to support the library […]

NY appeals court upholds law shifting local elections to even-numbered years

North Country leaders voice concerns over shift to even-year voting cycle Click here for the MYNBC5 story 

NYSDOS announces completion of city’s waterfront revitalization

Effort reflects city’s goals to promote access and enjoyment of Saranac River and Lake Champlain Click here for the Sun Community News story 

What’s in the 2025 New York State Budget? Here’s Everything You Need to Know.

Click here for the New Yorl Focus story

New York Will Boost Unemployment Benefits, Labor and Businesses Celebrate

Click here for the New Yok Focus story 

Trump’s ‘skinny’ budget would cut these major North Country programs

Click here for the NCPR story 

North Country airports brace for proposed $300M cut of EAS

Schumer calls on Stefanik to join Congressional pushback Click here for the Sun Community News story 

N.Y. is largest state with bell-to-bell smartphone restrictions

Schools will have individualized implementation plan Click here for the Sun Community News story 

Fort Drum contributes almost $2 billion to the North Country economy

Click here for the NCPR story 

Pataki: No place for big solar on prime Adirondack farmlands

Click here for the Adirondack Almanac story 

Staffing ‘crisis’ spurs calls for higher pay for Vermont’s prison guards

Click here for the VT Public Story 

North Country at Work: Growing legal weed in Essex

Click here for the NCPR story 

NY inflation refund checks coming: Here’s how much you will get

Click here for Syracuse.com story 

Joann Fabrics stores shutting down in our region

Click here for the WCAX News story 

Longtime residents talk about growing up and living in Peru, NY

Peru, NY – In mid-2024, Peru Town Historian Helen Allen Nerska conducted several “History Chats” with longtime, well-known residents who shared fascinating stories about growing up and living in Peru, NY. During these sessions, Helen Nerska interviewed a number of individuals: Barbara Copeland Perry, Monica Downs Remmilard, Douglas Brown, Judy Barber Walpole, Priscilla (Pam) Monette […]

Clinton County Historical Association’s great May schedule of events

 All events are free and open to the public. April 26, 2025 May 7. Noon. Talk and Walk Wednesdays at CCHA, 98 Ohio Avenue, Plattsburgh. A virtual tour of Lake Champlain Lighthouses. Tour of the military gallery May 8, 2:30 pm, Meadowbrook Healthcare, 154 Prospect Avenue, Plattsburgh. Clinton County’s Amazing Women – Part 1 with […]

‘These guys work six 12-hour days’: VT dairy farms anxious after migrant workers arrested

Click here for the Burlington Free Press story 

A new brew pub comes to town

By John T Ryan April 24, 2025, Peru, NY – Many have been curious about what happened since the Livingoods Restaurant sign was taken down. A new establishment, Ledge Hill North, is now operating at 697 Bear Swamp Road. Matthew Brankman, the owner of Ledge Hill Brewing Co. in Ticonderoga, oversees this new venture. Brankman […]

Early morning fire burns down historic funeral home in Elizabethtown, NY

Click here for the WPTZ News story