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Archive for 'Environmental News'

Fire weather concerns across Vermont and Northern New York Wednesday

Use caution if you’re planning on doing any outdoor burning Click here for the NBC5 story 

Overturned pickup sends driver to CVPH

Jacob J. Davies swerved trying to avoid hitting a deer Click here for the Sun Community News story 

Authorities investigate swastikas found at Ausable Point campground

Click here for the WCAX News story 

Installation of EV chargers underway at Peru Stewart’s Shop

Peru – October 16, 2024—Fencing is up while eight Tesla EV chargers are installed adjacent to the Peru Stewart’s Shop. Construction is expected to take about six weeks. Workers put a very heavy concrete vault in place today.

Hochul sends 221 state employees south to help victims of Helene

Nat’l Guard providing operational support Click here for the Sun Community News story 

Adirondack group pushes back on DEC’s plan to cut 13,000 trees on Prospect Mt.

Click here for the NCPR story 

Construction starting on hydrogen plant in Massena

Click here for the NCPR story

APA announces proposed Adirondack Park Master Plan amendments

Amendments, public hearings and public comment period detailed Click here for the Sun Community News story 

How North Country residents said they’re adapting to a changing climate

Click here for the Sun Community News story 

Engineers explain why Peru faces so many culvert replacement issues

Peru – September 23, 2024,  Culvert replacement priorities dominated the Peru Town Board’s Monday, September 23, 2024, Regular Peru Town Board Meeting. Engineering Ventures representatives Peter Gibbs and Mark DeCrescente explained why exiting culverts failed and the challenges in replacing them.  Peru Highway Superintendent Michael Farrell recently evaluated/scored ten culverts to determine the replacement order. […]

Federal Disaster Declaration approved for Essex Co.

New York also granted access to FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Click here for the Sun Community News story 

SUNY Scientist to Discuss Microplastics in Lake Champlain in Fall Edition of Love the Lake Speaker Series 

Keeseville, NY—On Monday, September 30th, Dr. Tim Mihuc, Director of the Lake Champlain Research Institute, will present an overview of microplastics and research underway to identify sources of these tiny pollutants in our waterways in Keesville, NY. Dr. Mihuc’s Microplastics in Lake Champlain presentation is a special fall edition of the Patrick Leahy Lake Champlain […]

New York’s first human case of EEE in a decade has died

Click here for the NCPR story 

Three Mile Island nuclear plant will reopen to power Microsoft data centers

Click here for the NCPR story 

Spectacular Fall Foliage Continues Across NYS; Midpoint of Change Predicted For Many Areas of ADKs This Weekend

Click here for the Adirondack Almanac story 

First Signs of Fall Foliage Emerging Across Upstate NY

Click here for the Adirondack Story 

Adirondack forest rangers work a lot of overtime. Here’s what they wish was different

Click here for the NCPR story 

Major business changes and upgrades coming to the Lake Shore Road

Peru/Plattsburgh  – Major improvements are in progress at several Lake Shore Road businesses. This past June, a Lake Champlain Transportation Company subsidiary, Lake Industries, purchased property that includes Plattsburgh Boatworks at 4013 Route 9, the Snug Harbor Marina and the Mariner Bar and Grill. A few hundred yards south at 3984 Route 9, Lake Industries […]

DEC Announces Adoption of Black Bass Tournament Permit and Reporting System

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar today announced the adoption of regulations to implement a black bass (largemouth bass and smallmouth bass) tournament permit and reporting system. The no-cost black bass tournament permitting and reporting system will help identify the distribution and occurrence of black bass tournaments across the state. […]

Horse Identified with Eastern Equine Encephalitis in Clinton County

Clinton County, August 21, 2024. The Clinton County Health Department (CCHD) has been notified that a horse in Mooers has tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE, Triple E) virus. The animal was unvaccinated. The EEE virus is transmitted by mosquitoes and can infect people, horses and other mammals, some birds, reptiles and amphibians. This […]

Lowville flooded again. Here’s what we know (and don’t know)

Click here for the NCPR story 

Climate diary: A windsurfer’s observations of Lake Champlain

The story features Gary Badger of Peru  Click here for the NCPR story 

Inter-department cooperation yields success

On Monday, August 12, 2024, at the Peru Town Board meeting, Councilman Eric Duquette and the board thanked Courtney Tetrault, Mike Farrell, and their personnel for working together last week to dredge the town’s water reservoir. Dredging the reservoir has been planned for several months. Tetreault drained it, and then, following heavy rainfall, the reservoir […]

First Champlain Hudson Power cables cross U.S.-Can. border

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Nearby rain clouds bring beautiful sunset

Peru, NY, August 4, 2024: The Peru Gazette photographed one of Peru’s beautiful sunsets while traveling home from the Heywroth Mason Park concert.