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L-R Lloyd Provost, Bryan Duprey, Amelia Brelia, Shawn Perkins and Alesky Longino.

By John T. Ryan

It’s good to have youth in any organization and the Peru Fire Department is no exception. Five young Peru firefighters braved Lake Champlain’s cold waters yesterday participating in 2010 “Polar Plunge” at the Plattsburgh City Beach. The Press Republican reported that about 200 people took part raising about $22,000 for the New York Special Olympics. Over $600 of those dollars were raised by the Peru firefighters. (Click here for more Dave Brown photos)

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The Post Standard reports

Flags to fly at half-staff – The Post Standard reports

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Here’s an excellent WPTZ report on the shutdown

By John T. Ryan

Americans and Canadians both honored their nation’s veterans on November 11th. On Memorial Day 2010 “Adirondack Ladies” Joanne Kennedy, Clare Dalton, Colleen Kaulfuss, Lori Clark and Jean Ryan hiked Whiteface Mountain and the adjacent Esther Mountain. Joanne Kennedy was raised in Nova Scotia and holds joint citizenship so she didn’t forget her native Canada. The ladies placed U.S. and Canada flags on both mountains and descended Whiteface via the Veterans Memorial Highway. Viewing America from high atop the Adirondack peaks – What a way to celebrate freedom and nature’s beauty; we enjoy both because of the sacrifices of our veterans. Thanks to the ladies for their photos.  (Click here for photos)

The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports

The Adirondack Dally Enterprise reports

Click here for more information on the Trudeau Institute

The article quotes Saranac Lake Village Mayor and former Plattsburgh Mayor Clyde Rabideau.

Rabideau said local, state and federal officials need to stay on top of the situation at Trudeau, even if, as Owens said, the Institute is downplaying the possibility of leaving Saranac Lake.

“To anyone who thinks or says the village is overreacting, I can only tell them that when I was mayor of Plattsburgh, six months before the plug was pulled on the Plattsburgh Air Force Base, I was told by the general of the Air Force that Plattsburgh would be in ‘high clover’ because a whole command wing was moving there,” Rabideau said. “So I don’t take anything for granted, and we’re going to do everything we can proactively to keep Trudeau Institute right here where it was born.”

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The Watertown Daily Times reports

Click here for Dexter’s location west of Watertown

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By Donald McBrayer

The barriers at the north exit of the Grand Union Plaza were addressed at the Planning Board meeting on Wednesday, November 10th. They will be coming down soon.  A Planning Board decision on April 14th, 2009 required the placement of the barriers because the land the exit crosses is actually owned by the New York Sate Department of Transportation (NYSDOT). It was originally a driveway for a house once owned by Charlie Barber.

An original site-plan for the approval of the pharmacy contained a condition that the exit be permanently blocked. It was never acted upon and the route became a popular exit-way for the plaza. The exit did not have signs so the the town was concerned that it could create a traffic flow problem which might result in the town being liable in the event of an accident.

Winfried Holderied, the plaza’s owner, has been negotiating the NYSDOT for permission to use the access. At Wednesday’s Planning Board meeting Holderied provided documents granting him permission from NYSDOT to use the area in question. The Planning Board responded by granting approval for the exit. Signs indicating the exit will be an exit only are already in place and the barriers are expected to come down within the next few days.

The Press Republican reports

The Press Republican reports

The Adirondack Enterprise reports (A wonderful story that vividly depicts the sacrifices being made by our fighting men and women.)

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Local averages: Northeastern Clinton Central $40,501; Ticonderoga Centrral $39,779; Beekmantown Central; $39,754; Saranac Lake Central $39,707; Peru Central $39,526; Keene $39,164; Plattsburgh City $38,542; Moriah Central $37,842; Ogdensburg Central $37,207; AuSable Valley Central $37,174; Tupper Lake Central $36,712; Malone Central $35,287.

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