The Peru Gazette

Here’s a last minute reminder – Please consider shopping at the Peru Aubuchon today (Sunday) and tell all your friends and neighbors to do the same. Manager Steve Duell is donating 10% of weekend sales to the Peru walking trail fund. He’s even planning a hot dog cook-out with proceeds to go to the trail […]

(Photos) By John T. Ryan There was a huge turnout at Saturday evening’s Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the Little Au Sable River Park Gazebo and sponsored by the Peru Youth Commission.

By John T. Ryan The Peru Town Board had a light agenda at its November 24th meeting. Outdoor wood boilers were the subject of a twenty-minute discussion. As he had done at the board’s November 10th meeting, resident Dennis Mason

By John T. Ryan The Peru Lions Club hosted its 31st Annual Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving Day with 385 participants. The Lions raised about $4,000 which they’ll use to fund their many local community service programs. The Press Republican published photos and listed the finishing times in today’s paper.

By John T. Ryan Today is Thanksgiving and it’s a good time for this story. Everyone got a turkey! Tuesday the Gazette published a story stating that the Peru JCEO food shelf needed additional turkeys and several readers responded.

By John T. Ryan Clinton County existing home sales decreased by 22.6% in October 2008 compared to October 2007 while median home prices held firm decreasing by only 0.2%

Posted November 25, 2008 by John T. Ryan The Gazette visited the Peru JCEO Foodshelf this morning and discovered that the foodshelf is short eight Thanksgiving turkeys. If more turkeys aren’t donated, eight families will have to look elsewhere. Can any of our readers help out? The turkeys average 10 to 15 pounds. The foodshelf […]

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AGENDA PERU PLANNING BOARD Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.

AGENDA PERU ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS Wednesday December 17, 2008

Posted November 22, 2008 About three weeks ago the Gazette published a story about Peru residents Joanne Kennedy and Lori Clark, Joanne’s daughter Jennie and four of their friends climbing Africa’s Mt. Kilimanjaro. Last week Mt. Kilimanjaro was in the national news when Ann Curry of the Today Show attempted to climb the mountain, but […]

Submitted by Adele Douglas, Co-Chair of the Little Au Sable River Trail Fundraising Committee Hi Everyone, Please plan to do all your Holiday Hardware shopping at the Peru Aubuchon next weekend (Nov 29th and 30th) and tell all your friends and neighbors to do the same. Manager Steve has offered to donate 10% of weekend […]

Posted November 20, 2008 by John T. Ryan Peru Hardware at 2971 Main St. is undoubtedly one of our community’s oldest businesses. Percy and Lula Brown opened the store’s doors in 1946. Their son Doug and his wife Helen took over in 1963. In 1985 Doug and Helen’s daughter Wendy and her husband Bob Silverman […]

Posted November 19, 2008 by John T. Ryan The Peru Town Board unanimously passed the town’s 2009 final budget at a November 18, 2008 Special Town Board Meeting. The Board cut preliminary budget expenditures by approximately $100,000

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Posted November 16, 2008 The Plattsburgh Comfort Inn and several businesses in the Comfort Inn complex were destroyed by fire on Saturday, November 15th. Peru resident Don McBrayer installs carpets for a living and he had just installed new carpet in 87 of the Inn’s 107 rooms. He snapped these photos on his cell phone. […]

Posted on November 15, 2008 by John T. Ryan Last Sunday, November 9, 2008 was a historic day at the Peru Community Church as Rev. Dr. Robert E. Svenson

Posted November 14, 2008 This is an email received from Robert Cronin, Chair of the Peru Democratic Party

Posted November 14, 2008 In a few weeks Peru should have an animal hospital in the center of the community. Plattsburgh Animal Hospital plans to open a facility at 692 Bear Swamp Road in a building that was purchased from Key Chevrolet. Dr. Joseph Church told the Gazette that he and Dr. Tom Brown would […]

Posted on November 13, 2008 by John T. Ryan Their songs have topped the charts, they’ve performed at the Grand Ole Opry and they’re coming to Peru next weekend. The Gibson Brothers will perform at the Peru High School Auditorium at 7 p.m. on Saturday, November 22, 2008.

Expected state cutbacks are impacting Peru Central (click here)

Story posted on November 12, 2008 by John T. Ryan One thing can be said of Peru Town Board meetings – They’re never dull! The Monday, November 10, 2008 meeting was no exception with bank statement reconciliations, a job classification, political signs and outdoor wood boilers stoking controversy.

Posted November 11, 2008 Submitted by Ed Eisele   THE PERU LIONS CLUB WILL BE HOSTING THEIR  31st ANNUAL JOHN P. ADAMS MEMORIAL TURKEY TROT ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27th, 2008.

Posted November 10, 2008 by John T. Ryan On Election Day Peru voters might have noticed a large black machine along one wall of St. Augustine’s Parish Center. This year the electronic voting machine was available for use by handicapped voters. Next November

Click here to view district news release Posted November 10, 2008