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Archive for June, 2024

Vandals damage St. Patrick’s Oratory & Mother Cabrini Shrine

Patent Rd., Peru, NY June 30, 2024 –  The Peru Gazette usually posts beautiful views of the Champlain Valley from St. Partick’s Oratory & Mother Cabrini Shrine. Unfortunately, this post is quite different.  This weekend, St. Augustine’s Pastor Father Scott Seyoour informed parishioners that on Thursday, June 27, vandals damaged St. Patrick Oratory by spreading […]

St. Augustine’s Soup Kitchen Menu for Wednesday, July 3, 2024 

Swedish Meatballs  Mashed Potatoes Applesauce  Bread Dessert Served 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at St. Augustine’s Parish Center, 3030 Main St., Peru, NY 12972  All are invited and welcome!

NYPA expanding EV stations between Albany and Canada

Frontier Town Gateway in N. Hudson is largest high-speed EV station between Albany and Canada Click here for the Sun Community News story 

PSU men’s basketball to hold day camp

Includes rising third graders through ninth graders from Monday, Aug. 5, through Thursday, Aug. 8. Click here for the Sun Community News story 

Dannemora trio charged after late-night kidnapping

Victim viciously assaulted and taken from a West Chazy home June 25 Click here for the Sun Community News story 

Speaker Heastie and Assemblymember Jones Visit Olympic Center in Lake Placid, Announcing $250,000 for Lake Placid Food Pantry and Thrift Shop

Speaker Carl Heastie continued his annual statewide tour today, joining Assemblymember Billy Jones at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid to tour the USA Rink, Herb Brooks Arena, Mount Van Hoevenberg and the Olympic Museum. They also discussed regional plans and announced $250,000 to help the Lake Placid Food Pantry and Thrift Shop build a […]

Plattsburgh changes course on Durkee Street development project

Click here for the NCPR story 

New York colleges among top 50 in U.S. for financial aid

Click here for the Syracuse.com story 

Counselor Kregg Bruno withdraws resignation paperwork

Bruce Drive residents upset by bridge closure  Peru is certified as a Pro-Housing Community 376 children have already signed up for fall soccer   Peru, June 26, 2024 – About a week before the Peru Town Board’s Monday, June 24 meeting, Councilman Kregg Bruno indicated that he planned to resign from his board position. At […]

Breeze Airways announces new direct flights to Fort Myers from Burlington

Click here for the MYNBC5 story 

NY primary election: See results for the top races in Plattsburgh

Click here for the NCPR story 

How local voters are rejecting electric school buses in the North Country and beyond

Click here for the NCPR story

Westport’s Camp Dudley is America’s oldest

Building better boys and leaders while having fun Click here for the Sun Community News story 

2024 Youth Festival in Keeseville – All Welcome!

State audit finds several shortfalls in Town of Keene’s record-keeping

Albany, June 24, 2024 – NYS Comptroller audit concludes the Town of Keene supervisor did not maintain complete, accurate and timely accounting records. The board lacked reliable records and reports to manage the town’s financial operations, account balances were inaccurate and certain revenues and expenditures were not reported in the annual financial report. Click here […]

Veteran photos and military biographies – Honor Flight #55

Every North Country Honor Fight carries veterans with different military backgrounds. Flight #55 included a medic, infantrymen, supply, maintenance, communication, and electronics specialists, forward artillery observers, a helicopter mechanic, a cook, a fighter pilot with 22 kills, and the Distinguished Flying Cross, a jet engine mechanic. Some suffered wounds and sicknesses, the effects which remain […]

Veteran photos and military biographies – Honor Flight #54

Every North Country Honor Fight carries veterans with different military backgrounds. Flight #55 carried a dentist, bomb loaders, a ship-fitter/welder, a heavy equipment operator, a truck driver, a crane operator, a radio relay communications specialist, a military policeman, and aircraft hydraulics and ground equipment specialists. Some served for two or four years, while others served […]

New self-storage facility under construction in Peru

Peru, NY – June 24, 2024—Two weeks ago, residents noticed heavy equipment operating behind the Route 22 Dollar General store. Adirondack Coast Self Storage plans to open a self-storage facility at that location with 50 storage units measuring five feet by ten feet and ten feet by twenty feet. The facility address is 13 Town […]

June 22, 2024 – ‘Thunder in the Burg’ escorts Honor Flight Vets to the flightline

Editor’s Error- It is Flights #54 and #55. The video’s numbers will be corrected when time permits.

Honor Flights #54 & #55 Veterans at their send-off ceremony

June 22, 2024, U.S. Oval, Plattsburgh – Here are the vets and guardians who flew today on North Country Honor Flights #54 and #55. The photos were taken as Janet Duprey read their military biographies. The Peru Gazette hopes to post individual photos of each veteran and their military biographies late Monday or Tuesday.  

The North Country appreciates its veterans

June 22, 2024 – U.S. Oval, Plattsburgh, NY. – The show went on; it was probably one of the best ever. Heavy rain at 7 a.m. today didn’t deter “Thunder in the Burg” motorcycles, law enforcement and a huge crowd of well-wishers from attending the North Country Honor Flight Send-Off Ceremony. Flights #54 and #55 […]

St. Augustine’s Soup Kitchen Menu for Wednesday, June 26, 2024 

Macaroni & Cheese  Mixed Vegetables  Bread Dessert Served 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at St. Augustine’s Parish Center, 3030 Main St., Peru, NY 12972  All are invited and welcome!

North Hudson: New York State Police trooper injured after crashing cruiser during heavy rain, police say

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Rain causes flooding, sinkholes across city and town of Plattsburgh

The cleanup will continue into Friday Click here for the MYNBC5 story 

AGENDA – TOWN BOARD REGULAR MEETING, JUNE 24, 2024, 6:00 PM

Call Meeting to Order Pledge of Allegiance Roll Call  MOTION/DISCUSSION:   MOTION:  Acceptance of Minutes for the Regular Meeting of June 10, 2024.  Community Input.  DISCUSSION:  Homes & Community Renewal Pro-Housing Certification Letter. MOTION/DISCUSSION:  Acceptance of NYSEG Reservation Letter for Updating Town Hall Lighting. RESOLUTION/DISCUSSION:   Acceptance of Councilman’s Resignation. DISCUSSION:  Other Business. DISCUSSION:  Public […]