The Peru Gazette

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1. Call Meeting To Order
2. Pledge of Allegiance

3. Roll Call

4. MOTION:  Approval of Minutes for the Town Board Regular Meeting of September 24, 2018.

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:  Vac Truck repair update.

8. DISCUSSION:  Sewer Collection Project Update.

9. DISCUSSION:   Town of Peru Water and Wastewater System Energy Assessment

10. DISCUSSION:  Peru School Solar System Trail Project.

11. DISCUSSION:  Employee Handbook Update

12. RESOLUTION/DISCUSSION:  AES Northeast Term Agreement

13. DISCUSSION:  Other Business.

14. DISCUSSION:  Public Comments on Agenda Items Only.

MOTION:     Adjourn

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Babbie Rural & Farm Learning Museum , 250 River Road, Peru, NY  will be hosting HARVEST WEEKEND on October 6-7, 2018 from 10am to 4pm.

$1.00 off admission if you bring a nonperishable item for the Interfaith Foodshelf.

There will be demonstrations of corn harvesting using antique equipment, hit & miss engines as well as demonstrations in the granary and blacksmith shop.  Mary Heald and Kendra Durant will demonstrate the art of flax spinning and weaving.

Let the kids visit the animals and take a ride on Thomas the Train.  Stagecoach and hayrides will be available for the whole family.  Kids can make a corn husk doll, paint a pumpkin, find treasure in the corn box and play pumpkin tic tac toe.

There will be book signings with Celine Paquette (History of Champlain) on Saturday and Anastasia Pratt (County Historian) on Sunday.

Bring your own lunch or purchase hotdogs, chips and cold beverages on site.  Enjoy our picnic area.

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Peru Central’s Board of Education launches its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at 7:00 PM at the school district’s Community Room, adjacent to the main entrance of Peru Jr/Sr High School. Anticipated topics include:

· CVES Capital Project Vote
· ESSA Grants
· Personnel Items
· NYS School Boards Recognition Week

By John T. Ryan

Plattsburgh – Michael V. James reported to the Clinton County Jail this morning at 9 a.m. to begin serving the 365 day sentence imposted in Peru Town Court on September 4, 2018 by Town Justice Lawrence Cabana. Judge Cabana gave James 30 days to get his affairs in order before reporting to jail. If James behaves himself he could be released after serving 8 months of the 365 day sentence.  Sentencing came almost one year after James’ dog mauled Mrs. Loretta Timmons, then 8o, who underwent five hours of corrective surgery after the attack.

Judge Cabana told the Peru Gazette that James’ attorney requested a stay (halt in the legal process); however, the request was denied yesterday by Franklin County Judge Derek P. Champagne.

Click here to read the Press Republican story on the crime and sentencing. 

Click here to read the first Peru Gazette story on the incident. 

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By John T. Ryan

Peru – Rehabilitating the Town of Peru’s Lyon Street School is continuing. Randy LaValley Construction is in the process of staining and installing new clapboards on the 150+ year old one-room schoolhouse at the corner of the Lyons Road and Rock Road. School centralization forced the school’s closing in the 1930’s. Frederick Lyons, a nearby farmer, purchased the building in 1939 and used it as a hay barn for many years.

AGENDA – ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS, WEDNESDAY, October 17, 2018 @ 7:00 PM, TOWN OF PERU

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