The Peru Gazette

“The book carnival will send each child home with a free book…”

Source: Book carnival coming to Champlain Centre | Sun Community News PLATTSBURGH | Area families are encouraged to celebrate summer learning and take part in an upcoming book carnival with games, crafts and more.

“The stretch of Route 86-known as The Notch- will be reduced to a single lane with alternating traffic flows on weekdays between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. The work is slated to facilitate drainage repairs.”

Source: Road work planned for Route 86 starting Aug. 9 | Sun Community News WILMINGTON | Local drivers will see lane reductions and possible traffic delays along portions of Route 86 through October.

Source: Then Again: Quirky and curious events helped to create Burlington – VTDigger

Source: Historic enrollment leaves UVM and Middlebury College strapped for housing – VTDigger

“Global climate change is accelerating and human emissions of greenhouse gases are the overwhelming cause, according to a landmark report released Monday by the United Nations. There is still time to avoid catastrophic warming this century, but only if countries around the world stop burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible, the authors warn.”

Source: Major Report Warns Climate Change Is Accelerating And Humans Must Cut Emissions Now | Vermont Public Radio

“Styles Brook originates in the Jay Mountain Wilderness area descending 2187 feet until it reaches the East Branch of the Ausable River at 766ft at a bridge on Route 9N – halfway between the Hamlets of Keene and Upper Jay.  Approximately eight to eleven inches of rain fell over a ten-hour period August 28, 2011 causing devastation across the Ausable River watershed. The Towns of  Keene and Jay were hit the hardest.”

Source: Remembering Irene, 10 years later: The Flooding of Styles Brook – The Adirondack Almanack

Source: Investigation into Vermont National Guard documents ‘good old boy’ culture – VTDigger

Source: Cuomo’s top aide Melissa DeRosa resigns – syracuse.com

Source: Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul moves into spotlight as scandal roils Cuomo’s reign – syracuse.com

Source: Cuomo digs in, shows no sign of heeding calls to resign – syracuse.com

Source: U.S. boaters soon allowed into Canadian waters | Sun Community News PLATTSBURGH | Following more than a year of pandemic closure and controversial policies involving international waters, Canada will soon allow U.S. recreational boaters into their waters w

Source: Grant to fund Poke-O renovation | Local News | pressrepublican.com

Source: State officials see infrastructure bill as ‘game changer’ for North Country manufacturers | Local News | pressrepublican.com

Source: Clinton Correctional Facility names first woman superintendent | Local News | pressrepublican.com

Source: Senior Center opens in Plattsburgh | News | pressrepublican.com

Source: A tagged Monarch Butterfly from Paul Smith’s found in Mexico – The Adirondack Almanack

Source: Road salt task force still without members after eight months

Source: Find out if you can enter Canada – Travel restrictions in Canada – Canada.ca

The commission did, however, give its approval to the Postal Service’s plan to raise the price of a first-class stamp from 55 to 58 cents. That increase is set to take effect Aug. 29.

Source: The Postal Service Presses Forward With Unpopular Plan to Slow Some Mail Delivery | NCPR News

Source: Antique Boat Museum to host 57th annual show this weekend | Arts and Entertainment | nny360.com

Source: UVM Health Network to require vaccines for all 15,000 employees