The Peru Gazette

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Peru, NY – 5 degrees and beautiful Saturday, February 8, 2020. Most people are dug out, but a few are not. Check on your neighbor, especially your elderly neighbor.

Very little traffic until about 8:15. School buses were getting ready to depart for somewhere. The town was working on clearing the sidewalks and a few plows were at work in driveways. The town highway crews were hopefully resting under the covers. It is truly beautiful here all times of the year, especially on a morning like Feb. 8, 2020.

Photos along Barney Downs Rd., River Rd. and in the hamlet.

Click here to view 38 photos taken about 8 a.m. today. 

Peru Central’s Board of Education launches its regular monthly board meeting on Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at *6:30 PM in the High School Community Room.  It is anticipated that an executive session will take place immediately following the 6:30 PM start, and that the Board will reconvene for public session business at approximately 7:00 PM.  Anticipated topics include:

•       20-21 Budget Workshop #1
•        Appointment of Personnel

The full agenda will be available on the District’s website (perucsd.org).

All are welcome.

*The Board will conduct a Retreat for the purpose of a book study/education/training prior to the start of the meeting, from approximately 4-6:30 PM.  The Retreat is not open to the public.

Clinton County Office of Emergency Services is advising people to stay off the roads during today’s storm event unless travel is necessary.

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Please share!! Please stay off the roads if you can only go out if you have to the roads are horrible and will keep getting worse!!! We have well over 12” and a lot more coming down until 8pm. This will allow the Plow drivers to clear the roads. I can’t thank you guys enough for everything you guys do!! It’s easy to say that’s their job and they get paid for it !! But most people that have a Job know when they will work and be home with family and when they will get sleep. Thanks to the Peru Highway and Water and Sewer Departments, Fire Department the Peru Town Court and all the other workers at the Town of Peru for everything you all do!! Makes me really Proud to be the Town of Peru Supervisor!!!!

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The sum might be less, but the same would apply to Clinton County

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Peru Town Hall and Court House will be closed today. If you have to travel please be safe and enjoy the weekend.

The Palmer Street Coffeehouse performance by Pete’s Posse for tonight, at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Plattsburgh, has been cancelled.

Action Recommended: Make preparations per the instructions

Issued by: Burlington – VT, US, National Weather Service,

…WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING… * WHAT…HEAVY SNOW AND LIGHT MIXED PRECIPITATION. ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 10 TO 20 INCHES AND ICE ACCUMULATIONS UP TO ONE TENTH OF AN INCH. * WHERE…NORTHERN NEW YORK AND MUCH OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL VERMONT. * WHEN…UNTIL 10 PM EST TONIGHT. * IMPACTS…TRAVEL WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT. THE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS WILL IMPACT BOTH THE MORNING AND EVENING COMMUTES TODAY. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS…LIGHT MIXED PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE INTO THE PRE-DAWN HOURS AND WILL TRANSITION TO MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW LATE THIS MORNING AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING. SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR ARE LIKELY DURING THE MIDDAY HOURS TODAY. GUSTY WINDS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND LIKELY YIELD NEAR WHITEOUT CONDITIONS DUE TO BLOWING SNOW ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHERN NEW YORK AND NORTHERN VERMONT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS… IF YOU MUST TRAVEL, KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT, FOOD, AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY. PLEASE ALLOW EXTRA TIME IF TRAVEL IS NECESSARY.

FEBRUARY 10, 2020 @ 6:00 PM

1. Call Meeting To Order

2. Pledge of Allegiance

3. Roll Call

4. MOTION:  Approval of Minutes for the Town Board Regular Meeting of  January 27, 2020.

5. 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)

6. Community Input

7. DISCUSSION:  Presentation by Carol Rock of the Babbie Museum. 

8. DISCUSSION/RESOLUTION: Acceptance of the 2020 Procurement Policy. 

9. DISCUSSION:  Solar Farm Ordinance.

10. DISCUSSION/MOTION: Set date for Sewer Workshop for March 2 at 6:00 pm.

11. DISCUSSION/MOTION:  Sewer Project Update.

12. DISCUSSION:  Other Business 

13. DISCUSSION:  Public Comments on Agenda Items Only.

14. RESOLUTION/DISCUSSION:  Pay Bills

15. DISCUSSION/MOTION:  Adjourn to Executive Session.

16. DISCUSSION/MOTION:  Return to Regular Session

17. MOTION:  Adjourn

The Newman Center Film Series (90 Broad St., Plattsburgh) concludes Black History Month programming with 1970’s “Watermelon Man” at 7 pm on Saturday, February 22nd. This critically acclaimed surrealist ‘dramedy’ stars Godfrey Cambridge as a white racist waking up one morning to find he has turned black overnight in a hail of poetic justice. Screening on reel-to-reel 16mm. Free, with donations welcome (free food).

Title: Crafts at the Museum
Location: Clinton County Historical Association
Description: The Clinton County Historical Association Announces

Crafts at the Museum

Monday, February 17th, Noon to 2 pm

and

Friday, February 21st, 1 pm to 3 pm

At CCHA, 98 Ohio Avenue, Old Base Museum Campus, Plattsburgh

Crafts for kids of all ages. Make and race a clothespin race car. Design your own back yard with flowers, bugs and a picket fence. Take home a yarn apple. Tour the museum and win a prize for finding the strangest item in the museum. Free. Ages 5 years and up.  All supplies are provided.   Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. These events are supported by Stewart’s Holiday Match program.

By John T. Ryan

Do you or do you know someone who needs help and you don’t know where to seek help? Whether it’s acquiring drug or alcohol intervention, food, shelter, rent assistance, counseling, domestic violence assistance, suicide prevention, utility assistance, job training, transportation, job training, veterans affairs, education programs, adult day care, home health aide assistance, child care and more there’s a resource at your fingertips. Pick up your phone and call 211. Not 911 unless it’s an emergency.

Exams Held April 3; Registration Deadline March 13

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today announced that examinations for individuals seeking a license to practice the sport of falconry, become a volunteer wildlife rehabilitator, or use leashed tracking dogs to find wounded or injured big game animals are scheduled for Friday, April 3.

The exams will run from 10 a.m. to noon at most DEC Regional Offices across the state. A list of DEC Regional Offices can be found on the DEC website. The deadline for registering to take any of these free exams is Friday, March 13. Exam registration forms are available on DEC’s website. Read more »

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The Peru Central School District noticed the Peru Gazette that there will be no school today.