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APRIL 6-12, 2018
VOLUME 3 ISSUE 14
Your Hometown Newspaper
The official newspaper of the Village of Springville and the Town of Concord Also serving the surrounding communities and Springville-Griffith Institute Central Schools
We What makes Springville a great place to live, work and play? With your help, we’ll feature good news from our village and surrounding area on our front page each week! As we’re out and about, we’ll discover more reasons why we love Springville and hope you’ll let us know of something to add to the list — no matter how big or small. DJ Anthony from Kiss 98.5FM posted a video online to announce the Springville community raised over $9,000 for cancer research through the Bald for Bucks event held March 29 at Springville Elementary School. The event is not only a great spectacle but, more importantly, shows the selflessness many in our community have, including our children. More information is available on page 3. It was great to see such a well attended public presentation on the BikeWalk Enhancement Project on Monday. Many such meetings come and go with little public input, and those in attendance presented comments and constructive criticisms in a way that sought to improve the project, not demean it. Congratulations to Michael Hannon Jr., who will be joining his older brother, Patrick, on the football field at Alfred University next year. We enjoyed not only writing about the football achievement of playing D-3 football but also the unique family tie that makes a small town like Springville truly unique. (Have good news to share? Email us at info@ springvilletimes.com or stop by our office at 65 E. Main St. in Springville.)
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Springville Times Named Official Paper of the Village of Springville
Village Board Hosts Reorganizational Meeting
The Springville Times is pleased to announce its designation as the official newspaper for the Village of Springville following the village’s reorganizational meeting on Monday. With this designation, we will continue to serve Springville village residents each week with important news, legal notices and other relevant items. Thank you for relying on the Springville Times to deliver news, information and more each week from the Village of Springville.
Maple Avenue Work Highlights Bike-Walk Project By RICH PLACe
Community members, including the Springville Village Board, on Monday heard a presentation on the $434,000 Springville Bike-Walk Enhancement Project designed to improve several sidewalks and bicycle routes throughout the village. The project is highlighted by an estimated $363,000 in improvements to Maple Avenue, most notably adding a sidewalk and upgrading the culvert at Spring Brook between Colonial Drive and Spring Street. Parts of the street, a popular route for students, would also see new sidewalks and crosswalks. Also included in preliminary plans are bicycle enhancements that would place six wooden bollards in Shuttleworth Park and 10 bicycle racks throughout the village. A handful of other bid alternates — should funding remain after the Maple Avenue improvements and bicycle enhancements — include upgrades on Newman Street, adding space between the sidewalk and South Buffalo Street near Springville Youth Inc. and planting trees. The public is invited to provide comment on the preliminary plans — which were
April 14 Towel Raffle Party Concord Senior Center April 21 BCH Women’s Association Basket Raffle Concord Town Hall April 22 Taste of the Southtowns
SPORTS PAGES 4-5 Sports schedule Hannon brothers Football Season previews: boys track, JV baseball Ski racing
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Village trustee Elise Rose takes the oath of office Monday from village administrator Liz Melock during the village’s reorganizational meeting. Rose was one of two new trustees elected to the village board; Kim Pazzuti, the other winner from village elections in mid-March, was on vacation. Looking on is Mayor Bill Krebs, who was also administered his oath during the meeting. Photo by Rich Place. By RICH PLACe
The Springville Village Board welcomed its new trustees and incumbent mayor Bill Krebs during its reorganizational meeting on Monday. New trustee Elise Rose was sworn into office, along with Krebs, prior to an hour-long presentation on the Springville BikeWalk Enhancement Project by officials from Watts Architecture and Engineering. The village’s other newly elected trustee, Kim Pazzuti, was not in attendance due to a family vacation, Mayor Krebs said. Rose and Pazzuti defeated incumbent trustee Terry Skelton in village elections last month. Robert Moriarty vacated the other seat by not seeking reelection and gave a farewell address last month. Skelton returned on
Monday to “give a proper farewell to the board,” as he phrased it, during the public comment session of the meeting. “It’s been my great honor and privilege to work with all of you to serve the citizens of our village,” Skelton said. “I want to especially thank Mayor Krebs for putting his trust in me 10 years ago and teaching me how good village government works.” He also said he prays the new trustees work with Mayor Krebs, the other trustees and village administrators to lead the village. “I ask the new trustees to keep an open mind and to remember that although over 200 citizens voted them, they are now the voice of over 4,000 and need to strike a balance between the wants of the few over the needs of the many,” he said. Also of note during the
village’s reorganization meeting on Monday, the village board named Nils Wikman to serve as deputy mayor and named the Springville Times as the official newspaper of the village. Both appointments were unanimously approved. SIGNIFICANT CONVERSATION at the meeting also centered around the process of remedying distressed properties after the condition of 37 South Central Ave., a large green dilapidated building at the corner with Woodward Avenue, was brought to the attention of the board by neighbor Allison Duwe. “It’s empty, it’s now falling down,” she told the board. “If it’s not on the distressed properties list already, I would just encourage it to be on there.”
See Village Board page 6
A LOOK BACK
Remembering Grace Gentner Salzler, who played football under Coach Pop Warner Looking back at some of at the Temple University in the women who should be Philadelphia, Pa. In 1941, remembered, let’s see if you they were married and can guess who this is … moved into a house they She started to walk at designed on South Central the age of one, worked at Avenue. Kronenberg’s department Three children soon store as a buyer, had followed: Nancy in 1945, three children, signed Barbara in 1948 and Dan many a fishing, hunting in 1950. In 1958, while in and wedding license, their backyard, Maynard volunteered at just about had a heart attack and every organization and died. Now a single parent, event held in Springville, Grace took the challenge of hosted teas ... have you running for and becoming guessed yet? town clerk for the Town of Why, Grace Gentner! Concord — a job she held In her 98 years she for 28 years! accomplished and did so In 1964, Grace married much for our community Raymond Gentner, owner before her passing in of the Gentner Livestock September 2017. Commission Market. You Grace’s first husband know the one, it still goes was Maynard “Tubby” on every Wednesday in By JOLeNe HAWKINs
Springville where you can get fresh vegetables, fruit, plants, odds-and-ends of every kind, animals, of course, and oh, so much more! Stop by sometime!
But back to Grace Gentner. In 2008, she was awarded Outstanding Citizen. By then, her dedication for helping others as well as See A Look Back page 7
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