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The editor is John Ryan at email: perugazette@gmail.com. The Peru Gazette is a free community, education and information website. It is non-commercial and does not accept paid advertising.

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Where Have The Good Men Gone?

The Wall Street Journal reports

Elmore SPCA is under renovation

The Press Republican reports

Taking aim at superintendent salaries

The Press Republican reports

Town Board to conduct Executive Session tomorrow to discuss pending litigation

The Town of Peru will hold a Special Board Meeting on February 23, 2011 at 6:30 PM at the Peru Town Hall for the purpose of holding an Executive Session to discuss the employment history of a particular individual and pending litigation.

Business threatened with arrest for advertising community events on its sign

The Free Press reports

Saratoga County plans veteran ID cards

The Post Star reports

4 of 5 Potsdam trustees want village dissolution vote

The Watertown Daily Times reports

Governor banks on reserves many schools don’t have

The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports

Owens, Gibson vote with parties on spending bill

The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports

Saranac Lake Elementary schools may add foreign languages

The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports

Ski resorts report strong season

The Post Star reports

Rising Property Taxes Overwhelm Many Who Are Living on the Edge

The New York Times reports

New ethics push faces old foes in Albany

The Democrat and Chronicle reports

State rules shield teachers gone bad – High costs of misconduct cases bust budgets as accused educators paid to do nothing

The Times Union reports

18th Annual Conference on the Adirondacks scheduled

The adirondack almanac reports

Utica – a new home for immigrants

The Observer-Dispatch reports

Peru Central faces huge school-budget gap

The Press Republican reports

Statement of Congressman Owens on House Passage of Continuing Resolution

From the Office of Congressman Owens

WASHINGTON – Congressman Bill Owens today released the following statement in response to the early morning House passage of H.R. 1, the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011.

“It is unfortunate that the resources and time of the House of Representatives were focused on H.R. 1 for an entire legislative week.  We have a short time before our current funding bill expires, and to send a partisan funding bill to the Senate is an exercise in futility. This week would have been better spent negotiating with the Senate to find a workable compromise, like we did during last year’s lame duck session of Congress to extend tax cuts for the middle class.

“If we truly want to take a serious look at how to get the nation’s fiscal house in order, we should take politics out of the process and enact across-the-board cuts – with the exception of self-funding programs like Social Security – of around 3 percent to get us through the remainder of the current fiscal year.

“One way Congress could have accomplished this, when the continuing resolution was passed in the early hours of Saturday morning, was to pass Mr. LaTourette’s (R-OH) substitute to H.R. 1.  This substitute would have trimmed spending without focusing Washington’s fiscal scalpel with a partisan hand. Unfortunately, my colleague’s amendment was withdrawn.

“With my proposal, critical government services could adjust to minor cuts without going under, and we would have adequate time to come together and do an economic analysis of which government programs are creating or sustaining jobs, review each program, and apply a cost-benefit analysis in determining which programs should continue to be funded.”

Some at Massena Central accept pay freeze – Administrators, support staff OK move; teachers to receive 3.3% salary hike

The Watertown Daily Times reports

Clinton County residents are relatively physically active compared to the rest of NY, but not not active compared to much of the northeast U.S.

The Center for Disease Control reports

How Vermont manufacturers are staying competitive

Seven Days reports

Gov. Cuomo praises West Genesee school district for taking wage freeze

The Post Standard reports

Governor’s bill halts practice of packing districts with friendly voters

The Times Union reports

Straight talk about the decline of America’s rural North

Brian Mann of NCPR expounds on why our region is losing population. Please view the remarks.

Peru woman has written more than 50 Harlequin novels

The North Countryman reports