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Archive for 'Lake Champlain News'

Summit to Shore Videos Take Viewers on a Virtual Tour of Lake Champlain Landscapes and Stewardship

Grand Isle, VT – A new video series launched by the Patrick Leahy Lake Champlain Basin Program in partnership with Peregrine Productions and NEIWPCC celebrates the beauty of the Lake Champlain basin and efforts in several communities to protect and restore our shared waters. With the web-based Summit to Shore StoryMap as a guide, viewers can […]

Lake Champlain at lowest water level for this date in the last five years

Ausable Point, Peru, NY, 3:30 p.m. on November 16, 2024 Historical water levels on this date: 2024 – 93.68 ft. 2023 – 96.02 ft. 2022 – 95.15 ft. 2021 – 95.28 ft. 2020 -94.14 ft.

NYS awards Peru $16 million for wastewater treatment and water system upgrades

New York political leaders announced today that North Country Communities had been awarded $51 million in water infrastructure grants.  The state awarded Peru $16 million: $5,000,000 for a water systems improvement project and $11,087,515 for wastewater treatment plant unit process and disinfection upgrades. The projects receiving grant assistance are as follows: Town of Champlain, $5,477,500 […]

Authorities investigate swastikas found at Ausable Point campground

Click here for the WCAX News story 

Fort Ti launches major tourism initiative

The Northern Department will connect partners in N.Y., Vt., and Canada for the nation’s 250th commemoration Click here for the Sun Community News 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 

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 […]

Peru, NY, Sept. 6, 2024, 6:30 AM, Ausable Point State Campground.

Peru, NY, Sept. 5, 2024, 5 PM Ausable Point Entrance Road

BIOGRAPHIES: North Country Honor Flight #57 Veterans

Plattsburgh, NY, U.S. Oval, Veterans Park, August 31, 2024 – Honor Flight Operations Director Janet Duprey introduced each veteran to the many well-wishers at 7 a.m. Send-Off Ceremony Oril Bashaw, U.S. Army, 1967-1997 – Vietnam Oril had recruiter training at Fort Benjamin Harris and was one of the first Army Reserve Recruiters assigned to the Albany […]

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. […]

Climate diary: A windsurfer’s observations of Lake Champlain

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

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

Click here for the Sun Community News story 

Lake Champlain Bassmaster Elite Top 10 are on the Lake

Plattsburgh, 7 a.m. August 12, 2024 – Last Wednesday, the Lake Champlain Bassmaster Elite Tournament had 101 fishermen. Yesterday, there were 61; today, there are only ten remaining. They’ll return to the Dock Street Marina at 3 p.m. for weigh-in. The winner’s prize is $100,000. $700,000 will be split among 70 fishermen.

August 10, 2024 Bassmaster Lake Champlain Fisherman Wes Logan, “It’s a blessing I’m alive”

Click here for the Bassmaster,com story 

Welcome to the North Country Bassmaster Elite competitors, crews, friends, and family.

Plattsburgh, 3 PM, August 10, 2024— Watching the boats arrive and weigh in Bassmaster Elite boats at the Plattsburgh Dock Street Marina was great fun. Most fishermen caught between 15 and 20 pounds today and about the same yesterday. The top 50 will compete tomorrow. Fishing will go into Monday because of yesterday’s bad weather […]

A near-perfect day for a major Lake Champlain fishing tournament

Public Invited – It’s a great show! Plattsburgh, August 8, 2024 – The Peru Gazette was at the Plattsburgh City Marina this morning to witness the start of the August 8-11 Bassmaster Elite Series tournament. One hundred of the world’s top bass anglers are vying for the $100,000 first-place prize and a share of the […]

Flood Watch – National Weather Service Burlington VT 315 AM EDT Wed Jul 31 2024

Eastern Clinton-Eastern Essex-Grand Isle-Western Franklin-Orleans-Essex-Western Chittenden-Lamoille-Caledonia-Washington-Western Addison-Orange-Western Rutland-Eastern Franklin-Eastern Chittenden-Eastern Addison-Eastern Rutland-Western Windsor- Eastern Windsor- Including the cities of Richmond, Bethel, Shelburne, Middlebury, Fair Haven, Port Henry, Bristol, Montpelier, Champlain, Killington, Ludlow, Ripton, Rutland, St. Johnsbury, Alburgh, Johnson, Bradford, Richford, White River Junction, Burlington, Lunenburg, Underhill, Stowe, Randolph, Swanton, East Wallingford, St. Albans, South Hero, […]

Beautiful day for Keeseville’s Community Arts Festival

July 20, 2024—Keeseville’s Stone Mill was a beautiful setting for today’s Plen Art Show and Sale. Thirty-three artists traveled from near and far to create artwork in the beautiful Keeseville area. Students from the nearby Meadowmount School of Music performed as people viewed the artwork. More photos are on Peru Gazette’s Facebook page. 

July 20, 2024, 6 AM – Ausable Point Campground Entrance Road, Peru, NY

Art, music, family activities in Keeseville Friday and Saturday

Thursday morning at Ausable Point, the Peru Gazette encountered two artists participating in the July 19 and 20 Keeseville Community Arts Festival. Catherine LaPointe-Vollmer from Potsdam and Patrick McPhee from Binghamton. They are just two of dozens of talented artists whose works will be on display and for sale. The 2024 schedule of events for […]

Clinton County Historical Association Summer Events

July 14 – 1 – 3 pm. Visit the Bluff Point Lighthouse on Valcour Island. Three floors of exhibits on island history. Your own transportation is required.  July 19 – 12:30 pm.  Plattsburgh Senior Center, 5139 North Catherine Street, Plattsburgh.  The History of Railroads in Clinton County – Part 1. Inspired by CCHA photo albums […]

Right Place, Right Time – Warren County 

On June 20, ECOs Thibodeau and Kelley were attending a training course in Lake George on the safe handling of rattlesnakes when they received a call reporting a rattlesnake had made its way into the common area of a local hotel on the lake, just five minutes away from the training site. The Officers responded […]

Battle of Plattsburgh Artist 1st place: Molly Dumar, Rouses Point

Four top 4th grade winners honored at City Hall Click here for the Sun Community News story