A Job Fair Message from the North Country Chamber of Commerce

We are anticipating great attendance for our Job Fair on May 29th at the West Side Ballroom, 253 New York Avenue, Plattsburgh. We have received many responses to the invitations to our local employers. It will be an eventful day. It is scheduled from 3pm to 7pm. We know that many of our great employers are planning on participating. Some of these are Mold-Rite Plastics, WPTZ-TV, CVPH, Mirror Lake Inn Resort & Spa, Eye Care for the Adirondacks, Lowe’s, SeaComm Federal Credit Union, NYS Dept of Corrections, Georgia-Pacific, Whiteface Mountain, Twinstate Technologies, and many more.

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MAY 13, 2019 @ 7:00 PM

1. Call Meeting To Order

2. Pledge of Allegiance

3. Roll Call

4. MOTION:  Approval of Minutes for the Town Board Regular Meetings of April 25, 2019

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. RESOLUTION/DISCUSSION:  Local Law Regarding Professional Fees for Planning & Zoning.

8. RESOLUTION/DISCUSSION:  New Purchase of Parks Mower. 

9. RESOLUTION/DISCUSSION:  Youth Commission Background Checks. 

10. MOTION/DISCUSSION:  Town Bill Pay Twice a Month. 

11. MOTION/DISCUSSION:  Zoning Map Change for the Nephew/Fuller Lot on Dashnaw Road.

12. DISCUSSION:  Sewer Collection Project Update.

13. DISCUSSION:  Other Business. 

14. DISCUSSION:  Public Comments on Agenda Items Only.

MOTION:     Adjourn

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A Town tobacco policy was approved at the Peru Town Board’s August 27, 2018 meeting prohibiting the use of tobacco products and e-cigarette in all town buildings and on all town property including parking lots, parks and walking trails. “No Smoking” signs will be placed in appropriate places.

This week “tobacco-free” signs were placed at the Peru Town Hall, the Highway Department garage, the Water and Sewer Department garage and all town parks.

DEC Conservation Police Officer Highlights for Late April in Essex County

On the evening of April 25, DEC Environmental Conservation Police Officer Maxwell Nicols received a tip about a Facebook post showing multiple turkeys killed prior to the season opener with a subject claiming to have harvested the birds during the youth weekend. ECO Nicols located the photographer at his home, and after a conversation, the man admitted to harvesting three of the birds. When asked where the meat from the birds was, the man hung his head and looked into his kitchen, where a family member was cooking dinner. Upon further investigation, the officer determined that the subject had prior convictions barring him from possessing any firearms. The defendant was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, taking turkeys during the closed season, and hunting turkey without turkey hunting privileges. All charges are returnable to Essex Town Court. The shotgun and remaining turkey meat were seized as evidence, and dinner was allowed to proceed as planned. The investigation continues into who took the fourth turkey.

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Jan Couture

Presented by Town of Saranac Historian and CCHA Board Member Jan Couture.

Thursday, May 23, 2019, 6:30 p.m.

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Surveying and sewer pipe inspection work will be taking place on the streets highlighted on this map in the coming weeks. Last week we started digging test holes for locating pipes.

Snow flurries for a few minutes at 12:15PM in SE Peru…. 34 was the low at 8:00AM. Then temp made it to 39, setting 36-year RECORD LOW “HIGH TEMP” FOR MAY DAY in SE Peru!!! According to my equipment, the temp held at 39 12:15 ’til 2:25, and has dropped to 37 at 8:01PM!

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By John T. Ryan

Peru – While most people are thinking of spring and summer, the Peru Highway Department is thinking ahead to next winter. Today and as time permits over the next few weeks Highway Department trucks will be hauling sand from a sand pit on the Rod and Gun Club Rd. to the storage shed at 9 Cross St.

Highway Superintendent Michael Farrell said about 7,500 cubic yards will be hauled. At 13 to 14 cu. yds. per truckload that’s between 500 and 600 truckloads.

Au Sable – The Keeseville, Peru and South Plattsburgh Fire Departments are at the scene of a house fire at 44 Mitchell Rd. in the Town of Au Sable. The house is owned by Kenneth and Dawn Banker. Dawn Banker was walking her dog for about 15 minutes. When she returned home she noticed smoke coming from the attic and reported the fire at 8:56 a.m.

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From the office of Congresswoman Elise Stefanik

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has introduced the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act along with Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence (D-MI). The companion bill in the Senate is led by Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). This legislation authorizes the Department of the Treasury to mint 400,000 $1 silver coins in 2020 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage. The 19th amendment was ratified in 1920 after a long fight to give women the constitutional right to vote. Read more »