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PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) - Plattsburgh leaders are sounding the alarm about deteriorating infrastructure conditions at the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base. At a press conference on Monday, June ...
In June 1993, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission voted to shut down the Plattsburgh Air Force Base and it was officially decommissioned on Sept. 30, 1995.
The Air Force says low-grade radioactive material may have been left at the old Plattsburgh Air Force Base. The material could include contaminated gloves and air filters used in bomb storage ...
PLATTSBURGH — The closure of the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base is continuing to haunt the town of Plattsburgh nearly 30 years later.
Parts of the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base were damaged by heavy rains in June. Plattsburgh Town Supervisor Michael Cashman says repairs could cost up to $12 million.
The groundwater near the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base is partially contaminated with chemicals from firefighting foam, according to officials with the Air Force Civil Engineering Center ...
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) - For the first time in nearly 20 years, there’s a museum at a former U.S. Air Force base in northeastern New York. The Plattsburgh Air Force Base Museum is scheduled to ...
The Plattsburgh Air Force Base was officially closed and decommissioned at the end of September 1995. WAMC’s North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley looks back.
Residents from throughout the North Country gathered Sept. 29, 1995, to pay their last respects to Plattsburgh Air Force Base during a closing ceremony.