The Peru Gazette

Despite more than a billion dollars in support from taxpayers, fans are being told they’ll have to pay for the right to buy season tickets

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DiPasquale passed away on April 4, He served as the College President from 2017 to 2021

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New practice focuses on family health

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The Peru CSD Board of Education will hold a special meeting in the High School Library on Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 7:30 AM.  The purpose of this meeting is to adopt the 24-25 property tax report card and to vote on the BOCES (CVES) administrative budget and on the slate of candidates running for open CVES board seats.  At this time, no other district business is anticipated.

The agenda will be available on the District’s website (perucsd.org).

The meeting is open to the public.

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An employee had the idea to sell pizzas to people stopped at red lights. It worked in a big way! 

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Official Democratic candidates for the City of Plattsburgh mayor are Dan Lennon and Wendell Hughes, who will face off in a primary; the Republican candidate is former mayor Don Kasprzak. Click here for the Press-Republican story 

Worldwide event promotes breastfeeding as a healthy start for babies 

PLATTSBURGH, NY – Breastfeeding women and their families are invited to participate in The Big Latch On, which is planned for Saturday, April 13, from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. The free event, hosted by the University of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital’s (CVPH) Alice T. Miner Women and Children Center (WCC), will be held inside the hospital’s board room.

Registration begins at 9:30 a.m., with latch time starting promptly at 10:30 am. Each year, breastfeeding women across the globe come together to nurse their child for one full minute at an established time. The event originated in New Zealand and was started by the Women’s Health Action in 2005 as part of World Breastfeeding Week.

The Plattsburgh Big Latch On is held annually as part of this worldwide effort to promote breastfeeding as a healthy start for babies. The Big Latch On is a celebration of breastfeeding, though all types of infant feeding are recognized as valid and supported.

“The breastfeeding journey is different for every woman. For some, it can be a real challenge,” Jocelyn Fittin, BSN, RN, IBCLC, a Lactation Consultant with the WCC, says. “This event is so important because women and families from our community can see that they’re not alone and that there is a lot of support out there to lean on. I’m also proud of how much this event has helped normalize breastfeeding over the years. And it’s pretty amazing that we get to be part of something that’s happening around the world.”

In addition to the latch-on moment, mothers, babies and their loved ones can also enjoy:

• Getting their picture taken courtesy of Life to Lens Photography
• Prizes for the youngest and oldest nursling
• Door prize
• Refreshments
• Local agencies and vendors on site with information and to answer questions
• Bake sale benefiting the WCC Bereavement Program to help families through infant loss

For more information, contact Fittin at (518) 562-7142.

Schenectady, N.Y. – Price Chopper/Market 32 customers and teammates raised $182,990 to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) during its annual March fundraiser where customers were encouraged to round up their change at the register. Combined with a $10,000 corporate match, the total gift of $192,990.36 — nearly $78,000 more than last year’s campaign — directly benefits MDA’s mission to empower the people they serve to live longer, more independent lives.

The Muscular Dystrophy Association is committed to saving and improving the lives of kids and adults living with muscular dystrophy, ALS, and related life-threatening neuromuscular diseases that take away physical strength and mobility. MDA specializes in providing funding for research, improving access to advanced care and resource centers, offering educational programs for the community, clinicians and specialists, and advocating for policies and programs that support families with neuromuscular diseases.

Over the past 40 years, Price Chopper/Market 32 has raised nearly $31 million for MDA through various events and campaigns.

“Our company, customers, and teammates are committed to our communities,” said Pam Cerrone, Price Chopper/Market 32’s director of community relations. “We’re thrilled with these results and proud to be able to support MDA’s research efforts and provision of care and assistance to children and adults who are impacted by muscular dystrophy and other related diseases.”

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Simon Steel Photo

Simon Steel is an astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. After talking about the eclipse at SUNY Plattsburgh on the morning of April 8, he set up his telescope in Peru, his wife Paula’s hometown, to share the experience with family and friends.  Peru residents know Paula as Paula Kienert.

Simon Steel kindly wrote the following paragraph about a total solar eclipse.

“A total Solar eclipse is one of the most amazing cosmic spectacles you can experience. Although only a “once in a lifetime experience” if you’re unable to jump on a plane (eclipses happen roughly every six months somewhere in the world), it is a celestial event unmatched by any other planet in our solar system, or possibly our entire galaxy.  By a freak of nature, our small rocky moon happens to be just the proper distance away, and its disc appears to be precisely the same size as the disc of our gigantic star, the Sun, 400 times further away.  This cosmic coincidence would make Planet Earth a galactic tourist destination, maybe even making the cover of the “Lonely Planets Galactic Edition.”  The next time a total eclipse passes over the continental US is in 2044.  There will be others around the world in the meantime, and as their images are, in turn, splashed across the headlines, it will remind us of where we were on that sunny April afternoon in 2024.”

1. Call Meeting to Order
2. Pledge of Allegiance

3. Roll Call 

4. MOTION/DISCUSSION:  To Accept Reports from all Departments (Water/Sewer/Valcour; Highway; Town Clerk; Dog Control; Youth Department; Code/Zoning; Supervisor’s Report; Court; Website; and Banking Reports, JCEO);

5. DISCUSSION:  Other Business.

6. DISCUSSION:  Public Comments on Agenda Items Only.

7. RESOLUTION/DISCUSSION:  Pay March/April 2024 Bills.

8. MOTION: Adjourn Meeting.

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Peru – Everyone is invited! “Pancakes Plus” Breakfast served on Sunday, April 14 served by the St. Augustine’s Knights of Columbus at St. Augustine’s Parish Center, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $10 for adults, $5 for children 5 to 11, Children under 5 are Free. Take-outs are $10.

The knight’s breakfasts have received great reviews; however, with warmer weather arriving, this will be their last breakfast until the fall. Don’t miss it!

April 8, 2024, Peru, NY Exit 35 Adirondack Northway southbound traffic at 4:43 p.m. It hadn’t changed at 5:43 p.m. 

April 8, 2023, 3:28 p.m., Heyworth-Mason Park – A gentleman from Norfolk, VA. kindly allowed the Gazette to photograph phone images from his large solar telescope.