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Archive for March 11th, 2025

Former corrections officers speak out after being fired for strike participation

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Assemblyman Billy Jones: Statement on Governor’s Executive Order No. 47.3

            “I strongly oppose the Governor’s recent Executive Order declaring a state of emergency at correctional facilities and barring terminated New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (NYSDOCCS) from future employment at other state, county or local government agencies. This is an absolute ridiculous usurpation of local control and an overreach of executive […]

Helen Nerska: “We always enjoy it when people come to visit. We want people to know they can share their history with us, and we’ll share ours with them.”

By John T Ryan Peru, NY – March 11, 2025 – “We do what we have fun doing.” That’s how Peru Town Historian Helen Nerska and volunteers Chris Mullen and Jackie Madison describe their work at the Peru historian’s office. The women, including Nerska, are unpaid volunteers who love local history and want to share […]

New York prison strike ends after 22 days, DOCCS says, as 2,000 employees terminated

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Temp hits 60 at Burlington Airport

NWS Burlington @NWSBurlington · The temperature at BTV (Burlington International Airport) has reached 60 degrees for the first time this year. This is exactly the date on which it first hit 60 in 2021, and it is earlier than the historical normal (March 27th).

AGENDA – Planning Board WEDNESDAY March 12, 2025 @ 6:00 PM

TOWN OF PERU 1. CALL MEETING TO ORDER 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 3. ROLL CALL 4. APPROVAL  February  2025 minutes 5. OPEN FLOOR to public hearing 6. APPLICATIONS: 1. P2025-0003   2-Lot Minor Subdivision Ashley Yanulavich 267.-1-3.21 606 Patent Rd 2. P2025-0004   2-Lot Minor Subdivision Doreen James 280.-1-27.11 128 Barker Rd 3. P2025-0005  2-Lot Minor Subdivision […]

AGENDA = Zoning Board of Appeals WEDNESDAY March 19@ 7:00 PM

TOWN OF PERU 1. CALL MEETING TO ORDER 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 3. ROLL CALL 4. APPROVAL of January 2025 minutes 5. OPEN FLOOR to public hearing 6. APPLICATIONS: 1. Z2025-104 Special Use Permit NY RSA2 Cellular Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless Valcour Rest Area 7. CEO REPORT 8. ADJOURNMENT

Clinton County Health Department and partners are monitoring Bird Flu

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI)  Clinton County, March 11, 2025. The Clinton County Health Department (CCHD) and their local partners are working closely to monitor Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), also known as H5N1 or bird flu, in Clinton County and to share educational messages with poultry and dairy farms and workers, health care providers, […]