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Archive for March, 2009

DA brings new charges against Covel

On Sunday March 29, 2009, the Press Republican reported on its front page that Peru Town Supervisor Donald Covel has been arrested on seven new official  misconduct charges and one charge of obstruction of governmental administration.  The charges were not unexpected. They relate to a September 2008 indictment and Mr. Covel’s refusal to plead guilty to […]

Insurance costs to be cut – Will the lowest bidder get the contract?

By John T. Ryan (Corrected March 31, 2009 – The March 30 Board Workshop involved the recently passed Work Boiler Law not the proposed outdoor burning law.) Counselor Cortland Forrence’s announcement that he will be resigning in a few weeks overshadowed other important business at the Town Board’s March 23, 2009 meeting.  After several weeks […]

Library receives a $67,000 grant

According to a front page story in the March 27th Clinton County Free Trader Today the Peru Free Library has received a $67,000 grant that will fund installation of solar panels, repairs to the roof, replacement of  the furnace and front sidewalk.  Read the story

Listen, learn and voice your opinion about protecting Peru’s open spaces

By Rodney Brown Updated March 28, 2009. (A link to the Draft Open Space Plan appears at the end of Mr. Brown’s story) On Tuesday, March 31st at 7:00pm the Committee to Implement the Comprehensive Plan, along with consultant Nan Stolzenberg of Community Planning and Environmental Associates, will present a draft document titled “Town of […]

PERU CSD BUDGET DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP TUESDAY

The Peru Central School District Board of Education’s winter-spring 2009 series of budget development workshops focused on establishing a budget plan for the 2009-2010 fiscal year continues 7 PM on Tuesday, March 31st in the community room adjacent to the Peru High School main entrance.   Tuesday’s workshop will feature an update from the Superintendent of Schools regarding a conservative […]

Peru teen reflects on her mission experience

By Rachel Daly  To be back in Nicaragua this year was quite a feeling. We arrived in the middle of the night on an antiquated but functioning bus, and as the compound came into view, there was comfort just in seeing it again. I was ready to be back with the Nicaraguan people I had […]

A wonderful way to enjoy a Friday evening

  The Adirondack Brass Quintet will be performing at the Peru Community Church Fellowship Center on Friday, April 3, at 7:30 pm.  Tickets are $8 general admission, $5 for students and seniors and $15 for a family.  Quinitet member Janet Geldert described what the audience can expect. “We will be playing a wide variety of […]

Forrence announces that he’s leaving the Town Council

By John T. Ryan Peru Town Counselor Cortland Forrence surprised the few people remaining at the end of the March 23, 2009 Council meeting when he announced that he would be leaving the Council sometime this year. Forrence said, “I don’t have the time to keep up the schedule of meetings that are necessary to […]

Tonight’s Town Board agenda includes insurance, community clean-up and yard sale days

      

Hike of Whiteface Mountain and Nearby Esther Mountain

by Jean Ryan Nancy LaBaff from Canton, Colleen Kaulfuss from Cadyville, Diana Lavery from Plattsburgh, Lori Clark from Peru and I hiked two Adirondack high peaks, Whiteface and Esther Mountains, from the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, in Wilmington, on Saturday, March 21. Though most evidence of winter is gone in the Peru area, the trail […]

Here’s your chance to assist a Peru neighbor!

  By John T. Ryan On April 22, 2009 Tyler Haudberg will be celebrating his third birthday. Unfortunately, he won’t be celebrating it at his parent’s home on the Union Road here in Peru. Instead, he’ll probably still be in the Boston Children’s Hospital where he’s being evaluated for a double lung and heart transplant. […]

Summary Report of the Peru Board of Education’s March Meeting

10K+ AND COUNTING!

By John T. Ryan It’s official – on March 19th  the Peru Gazette reached 10,000 site visits.  We went online on September 17, 2008 and recently we’ve been averaging 65 to 70 daily site visits. People from twenty-nine countries and forty-seven states have viewed our pages.  While local people are our most regular readers, people […]

A Climb of Two Adirondack Peaks-Gothics and Armstrong

By Jean Ryan  A climb of Gothics and Armstrong Mountains, two of the Adirondack High Peaks, was on my list of mountains to summit during the winter season. On Monday morning, March 16th, I met up with three other hikers at the hikers’ parking lot at the AuSable Club outside of Keene Valley. One of […]

Local mother and daughter share mission experiences

By John T. Ryan Peru residents Dr. Tracy Orkin and her daughter Alice Robinson were two of the eight Peru residents who made the recent Mission of Hope trip to Nicaragua. This was the second mission trip for Alice, a senior at Peru Central, while this was her mother’s first trip. As Alice said, “It […]

Two dads, two daughters and one son experience Mission of Hope

By John T. Ryan The Peru Gazette previously reported on the Mulcahy’s and Daly’s preparation for their Mission of Hope trip to Nicaragua.  Brian Mulcahy, his daughter Samantha, Matt Daly his daughter Rachel and son Patrick were in Nicaragua February 15th through February 24th.

Lori Clark completes the “Winter 46”

By John T. Ryan In August, 2008 Lori Clark and a group of friends climbed Africa’s Kilimanjaro.  Now Lori has completed another goal.  Already, an “Adirondack 46er” she became a  “Winter 46er” when she reached the summit of Basin Mountain. She has climbed all the Adirondack High Peaks during the winter months.  While Lori says she […]

Routine Zoning Board March Meeting Agenda

Click for agenda of Board’s March 18th Meeting

19.6 miles on a warm Adirondack Saturday

By Jean Ryan The hike to Redfield and Cliff (See photos) was a “makeup” climb for me as I had been sidelined by a stomach bug when Colleen Kaulfuss, Lori Clark and Joanne Kennedy climbed these two peaks in January. On Saturday, March 7, 2009 Colleen, Lori and I met Lyle Montgomery who had driven […]

Community College Honor Society to assist Elmore SCPA

Alpha Pi Tau, a registered chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society at Clinton Community College in Plattsburgh, NY, is starting a service project to collect items and monetary donations on behalf of the Elmore SPCA located in Peru.

Neighbor concerned with brush piled close to his building

By John T. Ryan Posted March 11, 2009 at 12:21 p.m. and updated 1:09 p.m.  A correction was made on March 12, 2009 at 6:55 a.m. Mr. Healy’s is concerned with brush being piled adjacent to his property and being a fire hazard, rather than limbs overhanging his building.  The Peru Town Board conducted its […]

Do residents know their burning may be prohibited

By John T. Ryan Four residents voiced asked questions or voiced opinions at the March 9, 2009 Public Hearing on the proposed Open Burning Law for the Town of Peru. John Ryan said he believed an article about the law’s provisions should have appeared in the Press Republican in addition to the required printing on […]

Agenda for School Board March Meeting

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Castaways Concert – Eclectic music this Friday

By John T. Ryan The Peru Community Church’s Coffee House Concert Series continues this Friday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m. when the Castaways perform at the Fellowship Center. The two person band will be performing everything from rock and roll to country and folk. Tickets are $8.00 each and $5.00 for students and seniors.

Do you have any historical knowledge or documents about the Elmore SPCA

By Carol Solari-Rusco The Elmore SPCA Board of Directors is compiling a history of the Elmore SPCA. In 1964, the Clinton County Humane Society, Inc which dates back to the mid-1940’s, legally changed its name to the Elmore SPCA, Inc in honor of benefactor Elmore G. Elmore. Over the years, records have disappeared leaving us […]