[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: "Looking back 30 years on the Plattsburgh Air Force Base [NY] closure and current developments to the area"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Looking back 30 years on the Plattsburgh Air Force Base closure and current developments to the area

By Sophia Falbo
NBC 5
September 29, 2025

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — Monday marks 30 years since the Plattsburgh Air Force Base closed, after operating for more than four decades in the North Country.

“It was a terrible loss in the in the social history of this community, because we were so deeply intertwined with our military," said Garry Douglas, President of the North Country Chamber of Commerce. "It was so special and so important to us was, it was like a heart was ripped out of the community. And also, something we continue to deal with as a continuing loss is the loss of people.”

Despite the many who left Plattsburgh in the years following the base closure, Douglas said the local economy boomed thanks to Canada and manufacturing.
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For the entire article, see
https://www.mynbc5.com/article/looking-back-30-years-on-the-plattsburgh-air-force-base-closure-and-current-developments-to-the-area/68119379

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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