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PLATTSBURGH — Proposed design improvements to the City of Plattsburgh’s Water Resource Recovery Facility on Green Street initially left some councilors hesitant to approve the plans.

PLATTSBURGH — Proposed design improvements to the City of Plattsburgh’s Water Resource Recovery Facility on Green Street initially left some councilors hesitant to approve the plans.

The agreement helps put the city in a better position to secure a $5 million WIIA (Water Interactive Improvement Act) state grant.

10:41 Under the city of Plattsburgh’s last mayor, Democrat Colin Read, who left office on December 31st, 2020, several actions were taken in an attempt to obtain land or money from the adjacent town of Plattsburgh. Town officials contested an annexation attempt and lawsuits over a long-term Payment in Lieu of Taxes agreement. Three and a half months after the new mayor was sworn in he and the town supervisor have signed what they are calling the Plattsburgh Compact. It not only drops the laws...