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Grand Isle, VT – The Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) seeks proposals for a program that will implement innovative enhancements to best management practices (BMPs) on farms in the New York portion of the Lake Champlain Basin in 2022. These enhanced BMPs will help reduce phosphorus runoff, a prominent threat to clean water in Lake Champlain. Up to $50,000 is available to support the program.

Innovative enhancements to BMPs are practices that go beyond the required benchmarks and fulfill advanced conservation components of a farm’s environmental management plan. The grant is intended to fund practices in nutrient management, cropland conservation and pasture management that are often under-supported.

The program will focus on practices that are tailored to the specific conditions of individual farms. The enhanced BMPs will help meet the goals of the farms’ New York Agricultural Environmental Management (AEM) Tier 3 plan by reducing phosphorus pollution and improving farm viability.

The successful applicant will provide outreach to and identification of farmers near or adjacent to water bodies in the New York portion of the Lake Champlain, provide technical assistance and implement BMP enhancements, and document projects.

This work will help achieve the Clean Water and Healthy Ecosystem goals of LCBP’s long-term management plan Opportunities for Action (plan.lcbp.org). It is supported by funds awarded to NEIWPCC on behalf of the LCBP by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Proposals are due January 28, 2022 at 12pm EST. The full request for proposals is available on the LCBP website at lcbp.org/grants. For more information, contact Myra Lawyer at (518) 897-1241 ormyra.lawyer@dec.ny.gov.

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Time: Dec 13, 2021 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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COVID-19 cases have increased dramatically across the North Country over the past few weeks with Franklin County reporting the highest number of daily new cases last week. Every county in the North Country is currently under a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is in desperate need of state resources to help them address the rise in cases, especially as the omicron variant continues to rise.

At the height of the pandemic, the state-operated two vaccination sites in the North Country and various testing sites. Since the state closed the vaccine clinics, folks across the region have found difficulty scheduling vaccine appointments, especially as the FDA approved the booster shot and the vaccine for children aged 5-11.

There have been similar difficulties scheduling COVID-19 tests since the state sites were closed where many have found it nearly impossible to get tested in a timely fashion. Due to issues with health insurance companies not covering tests authorized under standing orders, hospitals and medical providers require doctors’ notes to obtain tests. Since doctor notes are often difficult to obtain, many find Walgreens to be the easiest way to get tested but often have to wait 7-10 days for an available appointment. Others are spending upwards of over a hundred dollars for molecular or antigen rapid tests from a pharmacy.

In September, November, and last week, Assemblyman Billy Jones (D-Chateaugay Lake) wrote letters to the Governor asking for state testing and vaccination sites to be reopened. “State testing and vaccination sites are being opened across the state and the region continues to see a surge in COVID-19 cases, yet there has been no discussion from the State to reopen testing and vaccination sites in the North Country,” said Assemblyman Jones. “Constituents have repeatedly contacted my office asking for help getting the vaccine or booster shot or to find a testing site and one constituent who is a cancer survivor told me that she had to travel all the way to Albany to get her booster. The North Country stands ready to receive additional resources for vaccination and testing residents to respond to the rise in COVID-19 cases,” Jones said.

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Patients continue to have access to lab services at three convenient locations 

PLATTSBURGH, NY (12/10/2021) – Laboratory collection services will pause at The University of Vermont Health Network-Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital (CVPH) Valcour Imaging at 16 DeGrandpre Way beginning on Monday, December 13. Hospital officials said the decision was made due to staffing shortages, which are seriously impacting health care organizations in the region and across the country.

Patients can continue accessing lab services at three CVPH locations, including the CVPH Health Plaza at 89 Plaza Boulevard, which is about one-eighth of a mile away from Valcour Imaging. Below are the three locations offering lab services and hours of operation:

Patients can schedule an appointment for laboratory services by calling (518) 562-7340. Walk-in services are also an option at CVPH Health Plaza during hours of operation and at CVPH Diagnostic Center in Champlain from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., Monday through Friday. Those with scheduled appointments will be given priority and seen at their scheduled time, while walk-in patients will be seen based on time of arrival.

CVPH Valcour Imaging continues to offer other diagnostic services, including:

• X-Ray: Mondays and Fridays, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• MRI: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
• CT: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Ultrasound: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

A full list of diagnostic services available to patients can be found here.

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TOWN BOARD REGULAR MEETING, DECEMBER 13, 2021 @ 6:00 PM 

The Town of Peru is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

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1. Call Meeting To Order
2. Pledge of Allegiance

3. Roll Call

4. MOTION/DISCUSSION: To Accept Reports from all Departments: (Water/Sewer/Valcour; Highway; Town Clerk; Dog Control; Youth Department; Code/Zoning; Supervisor’s Report; Court; Website; JCEO; and Banking Reports) (Also, late October 2021 Court Report)

5. MOTION: Approval of Minutes for the Town Board Regular Meeting of November 22, 2021.

6. Community Input 

7. RESOLUTION/MOTION: Approval of Hiring Jason Burl as a Permanent MEO I to fill current opening in the Highway Dept.

8. MOTION: Posting of Town Clerk’s 2022 Tax Season Hours. 

9. MOTION: Approval of Rifenburg’s Pay Application #8. 

10. DISCUSSION: Sewer Project Update. 

11. DISCUSSION: Other Business. 

12. DISCUSSION: Public Comments on Agenda Items Only. 

13. RESOLUTION/DISCUSSION: Pay Bills 

MOTION:     Adjourn

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“Now, the airport is offering a new sound insulation program. It’s a pilot project that will initially improve 10 homes with plans to expand to 50 homes per year.”

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