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Peru teen arrested for vandalism at Mother Cabrini’s Shrine

Community appalled by alleged acts of destruction Click here for the Sun Community News story 

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 […]

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 

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

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

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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 […]

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 […]

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

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Three airlines submit bids for flights out of Plattsburgh International Airport

You can review the documents by entering the docket number “DOT-OST-2003-14783” into the search bar at regulations.gov. Official comments should be sent to Michael Martin with the U.S. Department of Transportation at Michael.F.Martin@dot.gov. Click here for the NCPR story 

Adirondack Forest Rangers find two people dead, rescue lost hikers and kayakers

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St. Augustine’s, St. Alexander’s, St. James’ new pastor get a loving send-off in Ticonderoga

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First-year results of local hazelnut growing trials are in

Willsboro, New York. The farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) has published the first-year results of the hazelnut trials added to its “superfruits” research series in 2023.  The multi-stemmed wood perennial produces its “fruit” as nuts high in protein and oil, with 81 percent as healthy mono-unsaturated oleic acid. The trial’s first-year results […]

History and Present Day of the Keeseville Fire Department

This Keeseville resource is a must-see

By John T Ryan June 18, 2024, Keeseville—Keeseville was originally called Anderson Falls, and it was named after the falls near the beautiful Main Street arch bridge that passes over the Ausable River. That river and the falls played an important role in Keeseville’s history. Fortunately, the Anderson Falls Heritage House Museum at 98 Clinton […]

Outdoor summer concerts planned throughout the ADKS

Most are free and open to the public Click here for the Sun Community News story 

This heat wave is the “new normal” amid a changing climate in the Adirondacks

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Saranac Lake’s largest hotel taken over by lender

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Honor Flights 53 and 54 Fly this Saturday, June 22.

This Saturday, the North Country Honor Flight will again take to the skies with flights 53 and 54. Three Cold War veterans, one from Desert Storm, and 26 Vietnam Veterans will be on board. “Thunder in the Burgh” will leave Champlain Center to arrive at Veterans Park on the US Oval at about 6:20 a.m. […]

Here’s the deal with those barges on Lake Champlain

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