The Peru Gazette

By John Ryan and Don McBrayer December 22, 2011 – Peru’s break-in wave escalated in the last twenty-four hours when intruders broke into the Peru Town Hall.  Peru Gazette reporter Don McBrayer reports that someone entered the building by prying the back door open. Once inside, they rifled through items in the reception office and […]

AGENDA TOWN BOARD REGULAR MEETING, December 22, 2011 @ 7:00 PM Call Meeting To Order Pledge of Allegiance Roll Call MOTION:     Approval of Minutes from December 12, 2011 Regular Meeting. Community Input and Questions. DISCUSSION/MOTION:  Town Energy Sourcing. DISCUSSION:  Don Covel Insurance Request. DISCUSSION:  Water/Sewer Projects Update. DISCUSSION:  Tropical Storm Irene Recovery Update. DISCUSSION:  Employee Benefits Handbook […]

To the Residents and the Employees of the Town of Peru: As Town Supervisor, along with my wife, Karen, I would like to extend a special wish for the employees, elected officials and the residents of the Town of Peru during this most wonderful time of the year.  As our celebrations get underway, it is […]

By John T. Ryan The Peru Town Board reversed a longtime policy at its Monday, December 12, 2011 meeting.  The town will no longer repair or replace mailboxes damaged by town snow plows. Last winter the town paid out more than $2,500. Highway Superintendent Michael Farrell said, “We’re the only town replacing mailboxes. No one […]

Call Meeting To Order Pledge of Allegiance Roll Call MOTION:     Approval of Minutes for the Regular Meeting of November 28, 2011. DISCUSSION/MOTION:   Including Reports from all Departments into the Board Meeting Record: (Water/Sewer/Valcour: Highway; Town Clerk; Dog Control; Youth Department; Code/Zoning Report; Supervisor’s Report; Banking Report, Enterprise report, Town Court Report, the Website Report) Community […]

By Donald McBrayer The Peru Town Board held its regular meeting Monday night. All members except town attorney Don Biggs (excused) were present. Elmore SPCA Executive Director Laura Torrans thanked the board for their support and described the newly renovated facility at 556 Telegraph Rd. The renovations include 8 large outside pens, a full concrete […]

To the Residents and the Employees of the Town of Peru, As we celebrate the Thanksgiving Holiday here in our Town, I would like to take the opportunity to thank you all for your support and help throughout this past year.  I thank the residents for their patience and understanding as we went through several […]

AGENDA TOWN BOARD REGULAR MEETING November 28, 2011 @ 7:00 PM Call Meeting To Order Pledge of Allegiance Roll Call MOTION:     Approval of Minutes from November 14, 2011 Regular Meeting. Community Input and Questions. DISCUSSION:  Elmore SPCA Update. DISCUSSION: Town Energy Sourcing. DISCUSSION:  Water/Sewer Projects Update. DISCUSSION:  Tropical Storm Irene Recovery Update DISCUSSION:  Highway Garage Roof Update. […]

AGENDA TOWN BOARD REGULAR MEETING October 14, 2011 –  7:00 PM Call Meeting To Order Pledge of Allegiance Roll Call MOTION: Approval of Minutes for the Regular Meeting of October 24 2011, Special Meeting of November 2, 2011 and Public Hearing of November 10, 2011 DISCUSSION/MOTION: Including Reports from all Departments into the Board Meeting Record: (Water/Sewer/Valcour: Highway; Town […]

By John T. Ryan Town of Peru taxpayers will have the opportunity to voice their opinion of the town’s preliminary 2012 budget at a Public Hearing scheduled for Thursday, November 10th at 6 p.m.  The Peru Gazette sat down with Town Supervisor Peter Glushko earlier this week and discussed some of the budget details. In […]

The votes in the Town of Peru and here are the unofficial vote total not counting absentee, write-in and a few ballots from newly registered voters. For the two open Town Council positions these are the vote totals: Brandy McDonald  777 Kregg Bruno            740 Geoffrey Spear        604 […]

A letter from Town Supervisor Peter Glushko The Town of Peru’s Preliminary Budget for 2012 is ready for public scrutiny and the Town’s tax levy is well below the 2% cap.  Tax levies for Town General, Town Highway remained the same as the 2011 levy.  The Town Sewer tax levy increased by 2% due to […]

The Peru Town Board will conduct a Special Meeting on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. for the purpose of setting a public hearing date for the 2012 Town of Peru budget.

By Donald McBrayer The Heyworth/Mason Park & Trail Project is seeing good progress and more is coming according to Project Coordinator Adele Douglas.  Douglass updated the Town Board on the Heyworth/Mason Park & Trails progress at Monday’s Town Board Meeting. “There’s a big list of little things to do”, Douglas said. That list includes replacing […]

 AGENDA TOWN BOARD REGULAR MEETING, October 24, 2011 @ 7:00 p.m.  1. Call Meeting To Order 2.Pledge of Allegiance  3. Roll Call 4. MOTION:     Approval of Minutes from October 6, 2011 Regular Meeting. 5. Community Input and Questions. 6. DISCUSSION:  Water/Sewer Projects Update. 7. DISCUSSION:  Tropical Storm Irene Recovery Update. 8. DISCUSSION:  Highway Garage Roof Update. 9. DISCUSSION: Heyworth/Mason Park Update.  10. DISCUSSION/MOTION:  Employee Benefits […]

N O T I C E ! Monday the 24th of October as the Water Department will be shutting the water off from 9:00 am– 3:00 pm on Monday.  Thank you for your cooperation.  PERU WATER DISTRICT – BIRCHWOOD DRIVE NY0900216  MUST BE BOILED TO ENSURE SAFETY  THIS DIRECTIVE TO REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL THE HEALTH […]

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The Town of Peru Highway Department announces that the Patent Road is closed between Mannix Road and 328 Patent Road  from Tuesday, October 18th until Thursday, October 20th for placing a box culvert. Emergency vehicles & local residents will not be able to access the road.  

Click here to review the Town of Peru’s Tentative 2012 Budget   Click here to learn how to review a town budget     Click here to read the Press Republican story on the Tentative Budget  

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From the Office of NYS Comptroller Tom DeNapoli Every citizen of New York State is a resident of some local government unit, and usually of several overlapping governmental units (county, city, town, village, school district, fire district). While the federal and State governments get a lot of attention for the laws, regulations, and policy decisions […]

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The Peru Gazette is including Town Council Candidate Geoffrey Spear in our Candidate Forum. His responses to our questions arrived several days following our deadline, however, in the interest of informing the public we believe his views deserve to be heard.  We are reposting the responses received from candidates Brandy McDonald and Kregg Bruno.

1. Please summarize your education, employment, family, community involvement.   I graduated from Peru High School in 1993.  I am married to Amy and we have three children; Frank, Cole and Jenna. I currently work for Hynes Electric Supply.  My community involvement includes; voluntary Peru Town Youth Coach for eight years in baseball, softball and soccer, […]

1. Please summarize your education, employment, family, community involvement.  Kregg Bruno graduated from Peru Central School in 1979.  Later attending SUNY Potsdam as an athlete in the wrestling department, which led him to Clinton Community College where he completed his degree in Applied Science.  After which he married Bonnie Benson and had two children, son […]