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Nominating petitions for anyone wishing to become a candidate for the School Board Election will be available beginning Thursday, March 13, 2025 in the District Office at 2045 School Street, North Collins, NY 14111 weekdays from 8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. and online at www.northcollins.com.
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The following vehicle will be auctioned off at:
Copart 8418 Southwestern Blvd Angola, NY 14006
4/14/25 @ 10am for parts only.
VIN: 3FAFP11313R101840
2003 FORD ESCORT ZX2
OWNER: SHARON ODONNELL LIENHOLDER: NONE
Joseph, M Cook of Angola, NY, passed away Tuesday, April 1, 2025 in Mercy Hospital, he was 77. Beloved husband of Cynthia Cook. Loving father of Joseph (Autumn) Cook, Jenette (Jeremiah) Casey, Jessica (Jayson Davis) Cook, Gunther Cook, Andreas Cook and Michael Cook. Amazing Papa to many grandchildren. Friends may call Monday April 7, 2025 from 11AM- 2PM, at the Addison Funeral Home, Inc., where services will follow at 2PM. Flowers gratefully declined, memorials may be made to the Disabled American Veterans.
Rest in Peace
The following vehicle will be auctioned off at:
Copart
8418 Southwestern Blvd Angola, NY 14006
4/14/25 @ 10am for parts only.
VIN: 2C4RDGDG1CR112599
12 DODG GRAND CARA
OWNER: RAAD MASOOD
LIENHOLDER: NONE
Heaven has another sweet, blue-eyed angel. Ruth Gill, 96, entered into Heaven on March 29, 2025, surrounded by her loving family. She will always be remembered for her kindness, gentle faith, and her fondness for word games. Ruth was born in Irvona, PA on August 16, 1928. She was pre-deceased by her husband Russell Gill, and by her parents George Hollingsworth and Zula Gallaher Hollingsworth, and by her brothers Lynn Hollingsworth and Bill Hollingsworth. As a devoted student, she never missed a day of school, earning a special award for 12 straight years of perfect attendance. She attended Indiana State Teachers College in Pennsylvania and earned her degree in English. She taught for many years at schools in Pennsylvania and New York. Ruth loved words, especially the challenge of her daily crossword puzzles. She played popular word games, like Scrabble and Quiddler, with her family and enjoyed her quiet reading time with her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Ruth played piano for the North Evans Congregational Church and the Highland Baptist Church. She was a faithful member of Revive Wesleyan in Hamburg for nearly 40 years. She is survived by her children Russell Gill II (Wendy), Bradley Gill (Joie) and Melanie Gill and was a beloved grandmother to her five grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Memorial donations may be made to Revive Wesleyan in Hamburg. Arrangements by Addison Funeral Home, Inc.
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From the Old Photo Album
The Main Bowling Academy, Main Street, Angola, N.Y.
In 1946, three Notaro brothers, John, Joseph and Frank of Brant, N.Y. purchased the Ford Agency building. This building was located at 77 North Main Street in the village of Angola. It had once been a Ford Dealership and to this day you can still find the “FORD” name embossed in the upper bricked section of the building.
After their purchase, the Notaro brothers installed ten Brunswick bowling lanes, with the business referred to as the “Main Bowling Academy”. It was in this bowling alley, that Pro-Bowler Phyllis Notaro first began learning the sport. You see, her father John was one of the three brothers. The photo for today is actually a postcard depicting four inside views of the “Main Bowling Academy”. The back of the postcard encouraged patronage, describing the accommodations as “Angola’s Leading Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge - Air Conditioned.”
Sometime after the Notaro brothers sold the building and business, the alleys became known as “Old Ford Lanes”. Under this name, Fred Carstens was one of the owners. In fact, it was Fred who loaned us this picture postcard.
The “Ford” building was purchased and remodeled just a few years ago. Today, in 2025, it houses one of the village’s local eating establishments known as Azalia’s Juicery.
Our society is ever so pleased when we find information which highlights the ties between our Evans and Brant communities.
Contributed by the Brant-Farnham Historical Society
From the Old Photo Album
It was only a little over 80 years ago when people from our community relied on horsepower to help farm their land. In 1942, Cosmo Maley took a break from farming with his horse, to pose with his daughters Rose and Carolyn for a photograph. Cosmo’s father Charles Maley along with Pasquale Lomanto had purchased the farm land on Church Street and Mud Road in Farnham, N.Y. on September 30, 1919. (Mud Road today is known as Commercial Street and Brant-Farnham Road.) The Erie County property deed recorded the previous owners as Pietro and Congetta Villa. Cosmo’s son Charles still resides in the family homestead. Charles’ daughter Sandy Meli submitted this photo of her grandfather and aunts when we were gathering information for Farnham’s 125th Anniversary book in 2017.
Contributed by the Brant-Farnham Historical Society
The following vehicle will be auctioned off at:
Copart
8418 Southwestern Blvd Angola, NY 14006
4/14/25 @ 10am for parts only.
VIN: 1HGCR2E19HA127787
2017 HONDA ACCORD SPORT
OWNER: JOSEPH KENNEDY
LIENHOLDER: HONDA AMERICAN FINANCE CORP
The following vehicle will be auctioned off at:
Copart
8418 Southwestern Blvd Angola, NY 14006
4/14/25 @ 10am for parts only.
VIN: JF1VA1B67H9838923
2017 SUBARU WRX
OWNER: JACOB RANDALL
LIENHOLDER: NONE
The following vehicle will be auctioned off at:
Copart
8418 Southwestern Blvd Angola, NY 14006
4/14/25 @ 10am for parts only.
VIN: 1G1BE5SM9J7105435
2018 CHEVROLET CRUZE LT
OWNER: KATHY WICK LIENHOLDER: NONE
The following vehicle will be auctioned off at:
Copart
8418 Southwestern Blvd Angola, NY 14006
4/14/25 @ 10am for parts only. VIN: 5J6RE4H35BL069664
2011 HONDA CR-V LX
OWNER: WILLIAM CORSETTE
LIENHOLDER: NONE
Circa 1942; Cosmo Maley with his daughters Rose and Carolyn on their farm in Farnham, N.Y.
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Evans-Brant Central School District
Angola, New York
NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL BUDGET MEETING BUDGET REFERENDUM AND ELECTION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual School Budget Meeting (Public Hearing) for qualified district residents will be held in the Lake Shore High School Library Media Center, 959 Beach Road, Angola, New York on Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.
FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual School Budget Referendum and Election for (1) approval of the Annual School District Budget for the 2025-26 School Year; (2) voting on a proposition regarding the purchase of replacement vehicles; (3) voting on a proposition regarding the establishment of a capital reserve fund; (4) the election of three qualified district residents to the office of Member of the Board of Education; and (5) for the transaction of such other business as is authorized by law, will be held on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., in the Lobby located outside the District Office/Gymnasium of the Lake Shore High School located at 959 Beach Road, Angola, New York 14006.
TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required for the 2025-26 fiscal year for school purposes, exclusive of public monies, may be obtained by any District resident beginning May 6, 2025 through and including May 20, 2025, excluding weekends and holidays, in the main office of each school building between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that all candidates for the office of Member of the Board of Education shall be nominated by petition. Each nominating petition shall be directed to the District Clerk, shall be signed by at least twenty-five (25) qualified voters of the District, and shall state the residence of each signer, and shall state the name and residence of the candidate. Petitions shall be filed in the District Clerk’s Office located at 959 Beach Road, Angola, New York between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday except Holidays. Each petition must be filed in the District Clerk’s Office by no later than 5:00 p.m. on Monday, April 21, 2025. The three candidates who receive the highest number of votes at the Annual Meeting will fill the expired terms of the three incumbents. The candidate who receives the highest number of votes will be elected to serve a term which will commence immediately after the election (upon filing the oath of office) and continue until June 30, 2028. The two candidates who receive the second and third highest number of votes will be elected to three-year terms commencing July 1, 2025 and expire June 30, 2028.
TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that voting will consist of voting on the budget and on the following propositions, as well as other such matters as may be lawfully presented at the meeting:
PROPOSITION NO. 1
Shall the following resolution be adopted:
RESOLVED, that the budget for the Evans-Brant (Lake Shore) Central School District for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026, as presented by the Board of Education is hereby approved and adopted and the required funds therefore are hereby appropriated and the necessary real property taxes required shall be raised by a tax on the taxable property in the District to be levied and collected as required by law.
PROPOSITION NO. 2
Shall the following resolution be adopted:
RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Evans-Brant (Lake Shore) Central School District (the “District”) is hereby authorized to purchase the following replacement vehicles for use by the District in the transportation of students and general use by the District: up to three (3) fully electric buses (two (2) 24-passenger 1-wheel chair position school buses and
one (1) 30-passenger school bus). The number of buses purchased shall be based on the amount of grant funding received by the District, and in no case shall the total aggregate local cost exceed $500,000.00; with such aggregate cost to be raised by a tax upon the taxable property of the District to be levied and collected in annual installments as provided in Section 416 of the Education Law, with such tax to be partially offset by State aid available therefore, and, in anticipation of such tax, by the issuance of debt obligations of the District as may be necessary, not to exceed such maximum aggregate cost. No tax levy increase is anticipated for Proposition No. 2.
PROPOSITION NO. 3
Shall the following resolution be adopted:
RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Evans-Brant (Lake Shore) Central School District (the “District”) is hereby authorized to establish a capital reserve fund pursuant to Section 3651 of the Education Law of the State of New York (the “Fund”); that the Fund shall be known as the “Capital Reserve Fund, 2025” of the District; that the Fund shall be established for the purpose of financing, in whole or in part, the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, expansion, renovation, alteration and/ or improvement of buildings, facilities, sites and/or real property owned by the District, including, in all cases, the acquisition of necessary furnishings, equipment, machinery and apparatus; that the ultimate amount of such Fund shall not be greater than $10,000,000 (plus interest earned thereon); that the probable term of such Fund shall not be longer than ten (10) years; and that the permissible sources from which the Board is authorized to appropriate monies to such Fund from time to time shall be (a) unappropriated fund balance of the District; and (b) such other sources as the Board or the voters of the District may direct from time to time, all as may be permitted by law.
TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that applications for absentee ballots and applications for early mail ballot may be obtained Monday through Friday, except holidays, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. in the District Clerk’s Office located at 959 Beach Road, Angola, New York. Candidates must enter through the main entrance of the High School. Completed applications must be received by the District Clerk or her designee at least seven (7) days before the annual meeting and election (May 13, 2025) if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter or by the day before the election (May 19, 2025) if the ballot is to be issued to the voter in person. Completed absentee ballots and early mail ballots must be received by the office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 20, 2025.
TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that military voters who are qualified voters of the school district may apply for a military ballot. Applications for military ballots may be obtained from the District Clerk’s Office and the military voter may designate a preference to receive the application and/or the military ballot by mail, fax or email. Completed applications for military ballots must be received by the District Clerk or her designee by no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 24, 2025.
TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that a list of all persons to whom absentee and early mail ballots are issued will be available for public inspection between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. in the office of the District Clerk on the five days prior to the annual meeting and election, except Sundays, and such list will be available at the polling place during the annual meeting and election. Any qualified voter may, upon examination of such list, file a written challenge of the qualifications as a voter of any person whose name appears on such list, stating the reasons for such challenge. Such written challenge shall be transmitted to the District Clerk before the close of the polls.
BY ORDER of the Board of Education of the Evans-Brant Central School District, Lake Shore Central Schools. Kristine DeMartino, District Clerk
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Did you know the Brant and Farnham area may have had ties to the Underground Railroad and Abolitionist Movement? Today we share with you some information from our Brant-Farnham Historical booklet published in 2012:
The Underground Railroad and Abolitionist Movement in Brant
and Farnham New York
The year was 1816, when Moses Tucker, a Quaker, settled in Brant. As the first settler, he made his home on the SW corner of Mile Block and Brant North Collins Road. It so happens that many of the early settlers in Brant and Southern Erie County were Quakers who believed that human slavery was wrong both under moral and natural law. Quaker meeting houses were predominant for the earliest years in this area.(12) There was a “Friends of Human Progress” (aka Quaker) meeting house in Brant located in Tucker’s Grove (Moses Tucker), it was called HEMLOCK HALL.(11) It has been documented that “Quakers are part of the underground railroad mythology…the reputation of Quakers for antislavery was well known among the enslaved. No fugitive,…was ever betrayed by a Quaker.” (1)
For 240 years from the first African slave until 1860, slaves ran and escaped to freedom. The transportation of slaves to freedom had to be done under the utmost secret conditions. The transport worked much like a railroad and so it was called the Underground Railroad (UGRR). The entire area of western New York was filled with stops or stations of the UGRR. Rochester was the main station. However, there were many minor but key stops, such as the one run by Dr. James Pettitt near Fredonia NY and his son Eber Pettitt at Versailles Cattaraugus County NY. (2) Versailles is located just outside the Town of Brant. Some local names listed as playing a part of the UGRR are Versailles NY - Hiram (Capt) Chapman and Eber M. Pettitt, Brant NY - “Friend Andrew” (Quaker) (4)
Underground Railroad Possible Stops and Stations
Let’s remember that during this time, roads were dirt, not paved and means of travel were foot, stagecoach or horse and buggy/wagon. There were no streetlights, no electricity. Homes had out-houses and wood stoves. People lived by the rule of early to bed, early to rise. There was a stagecoach line from Gowanda to Buffalo, which ran on the route following the old Versailles “Plank” Rd. This truly was a road covered with planks. Along this route, of which part is in the Town of Brant, was the Field Stand Inn, a rumored UGRR stop (corner of Brant North Collins Road and Versailles Plank Road). Stagecoach drivers would change horses and rest. Versailles Plank Road was a toll road, with the toll being in Pontiac, NY, located just a short distance outside of Brant. Versailles, NY is now a documented UGRR station, listing Eber Pettitt as “Abolitionist”. Freedom seeking “travelers” coming through the Versailles, NY area could have taken the Versailles Plank Road over the Cattaraugus Creek, through Brant and then on towards Pontiac to Angola, to the Lakeshore Road, heading to Buffalo and then freedom in Canada. Or, as the UGRR Route map shows, through Brant to Eden. It is said that the freedom trips would have been broken into stops approximately 15 miles apart, a look at the MAP of UGRR Routes confirms this.
As previously mentioned, the only Brant name that has been found linked to the UGRR was that of “Friend Andrew” (Quaker), Brant?, NY [PE-14,18,94](8) (“Friend” is another name for Quaker.) From various records, it is surmised that this person is “Andrew” Varney, Quaker, (1797-1868) who did live in Brant during the time of the UGRR. He was listed on the 1880 census, as father of James (Brant, NY). We know that James Varney lived on Mileblock Road near Cain Road, not far from the Versailles Plank Road. James was host to Sojourner Truth, a well-known freed slave, during her 1868 visit to WNY and Brant.
Another local TRAVEL route, passing though Brant and Farnham was the POSTAL TRAIL from Fredonia to Buffalo; it crossed over the Cattaragus Creek in Irving passing though Brant at Farnham. A Stagecoach stop along this route was the Belote Home (later Pingitore’s - on Erie Road across from St. Anthony’s Cemetery). There was also, The Buffalo and State Line Railroad, which had a depot stop in Farnham. The map of UGRR Routes shows a route following along the Lake Erie Shore line. Though not confirmed, it is possible that freedom seekers found refuge in the Farnham area, via these routes and modes of travel.
Contributed by the Brant-Farnham Historical Society
