The Peru Gazette

We’re not sure if these photos will make feel a little cooler today as the temperature reached 96 degrees. At 3 p.m. Town of Peru Highway personnel were preparing for slightly different weather. They were straining sand to remove any rocks and then mixing it with salt in the sand-salt shed. Highway Superintendent Michael Farrell said his personnel expect to spread about 8,000 cubic yards of the sand-salt mixture on 112 miles of town and county highways this winter. According to our caculations that works out to about 9,280 tons.