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APRIL 5 - 11, 2019
LOCAL
VOLUME 4 ISSUE 14
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Submission for Springville Art Crawl due April 13, Art Jury Announced ....see page 3
Final Green Speaker to discuss backyard beekeeping April 9 ....see page 2
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Griffins rely on pitching, defense for senior-laden baseball squad ....see page 10
Springville village board approves local law for telecommunications
By Kellen M. Quigley
The village of Springville held its annual reorganizational meeting April 1, which featured several items and the passing of a local law concerning wireless telecommunications in the village. The board held a public hearing for local law number four for 2019 about cell tower and small cell installation in Springville. The purpose of the local law helped to establish uniform standards for the siting, design, permitting, maintenance and use of wireless telecommunication facilities in the village of Springville. “In the law, there is a lot of language for the aesthetic and design of these small towers and their placement in the village,” said Mayor William Krebs. According to the new law, while the village recognizes the importance of wireless communication facilities in providing high quality communication service to its residents and businesses, the village also recognizes that it has an obligation to protect public safety and to minimize the adverse effects of such
Photo by Kellen M. Quigley The former Springville water tower is now used as cell tower for several wireless telecommunications providers in the village. The village board Monday passed a new local law and several resolutions regarding wireless telecommunications in the village.
facilities. In the previous law we had just for the large cell towers, Krebs said there was no language that could cover the
small wireless towers of today. He said in the new law, there’s a definition for stealth technology, which is “camouflaging methods applied
Springville photographer recognized at international photographic competition
to wireless communication facilities which render them more visually appealing for which to blend the proposed facility into existing structure.”
Night at the Museum
Springville Middle School students take a trip back in time with museum project
By Elyana Schosek Student Reporter
In recent years, learning has developed tremendously. Students now have the world in their pocket, which has changed how they learn. With this new technology, teachers have had to adjust their teaching styles and methods. At the beginning of the year, Springville-Griffith Superintendent Kimberly Moritz asked the teachers in the district to incorporate a new style of learning called Project Based Learning. This method provides students the opportunities Photo Submitted to explore questions Springville photographer Emily Robinson (left) recently earned the Master of relating to certain topics, Photography degree from Professional Photographers of America (PPA) as well in a way that engages, as received a Bronze Medal in the International Photographic Competition for the challenges and, hopefully, third consecutive year. excites them to learn. “Over the past month, our See Photographer page 6
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Another new piece of the new law reads, “all proposed small wireless facilities shall contain a demonstration that the facility will be sighted so as to minimize visual intrusion as much as possible given the facts and circumstances involved with proposed sight facility and will employ stealth technology.” Krebs said those are considerations the Planning Board must take into account when they hear applications for placement of the small call antennas. “Since many of these will probably go down our main streets and in the right of way, I think that’s very important,” he said. “I think that’s the advantage of this law.” During the meeting proper, the village board first approved the rescinding of Village Code Chapter 200 Section 119-132 Article XVII Telecommunications Facilities. The new local law would replace that chapter in the village code. Next, the board adopted the local law. Needed to approve the local law was a SEQR and a negative declaration of environmental impact from See Tower page 3
Photos by Elyana Schosek
students have been learning about the four major river valley civilizations of ancient times,” said Greg Miller, sixth grade
Social Studies teacher at Springville Middle School. “For this unit, students See Night page 11
A Look Back:
The Scoby Dam Power Plant
By Jolene Hawkins accommodate current needs as well as Looking back — way back — to the projected future needs. This second dam, made from timber was 1890s and you will see located just south of the current dam and was where in this little village of Springville we were beginning to have destroyed by a flash flood only days after it was initially open. The wooden cribbing incandescent lights. from the dam can still be seen upstream. There were so many pros and cons regarding the Located on the eastern bank of the electric lights, which continued when the proposals to have Cattaraugus Creek, it sits on 27 acres of electric light plant built nearby. In 1896, Manley King and Edwin land at the end of Scoby Hill Road. Built Scott constructed an earth filled dam on the creek, but saw their where the stream flows, it used turbines and power plant washed away by the spring floods. generators and provided Springville with The next proposed dam would furnish ample power for all times electric power until 1996. to come and be able to manufacture additional power which could The current dam was constructed in 1925, be sold off, creating income for the town. The year was 1897, and it replacing two earlier facilities built in 1899 came to be known as Scoby Dam Power Plant. and 1924. The dam is 30 feet in height and By Dec. 8, 1898, it was the dawning of a new era, as the power 182 feet in width. The 1924 plant had a plant was now working. In 1921, the dam was in very poor See A Look Back page 5 condition and the decision was made to build a new dam that would
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