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JANUARY
21 2022
Photo by Kathryn Ross The old piano has a new keyboard and a new life.
Playing again: Antique piano comes back home to Wellsville BY KATHRYN ROSS
Photo provided A map shows the proposed expansion of the Hyland landfill south of Angelica.
DEC seeks comments on Allegany County landfill expansion BY BOB CLARK ANGELICA — State officials are seeking public comment on a project to more than double the size of the Hyland landfill in Allegany County. The DEC was set to host a virtual public comment hearing Jan. 19 on a proposed 107-acre expansion of the Hyland Facility Associatesoperated municipal solid waste landfill south of the village.
DEC officials reported the operators are seeking to modify the operating permit to add 107 acres to the landfill footprint, increase the maximum height by 120 feet to 180 feet, and more than double the amount of waste the facility can take annually — from 465,000 to 1 million tons. The proposed expansion would extend the life of the Hyland Landfill by 25 to 30 years. The expansion is planned
for about 50.8 acres to the east of the current site, and 53.3 acres south and west of the current site. A 36.8 acre borrow area is also planned further to the south. All three expansion areas and the main landfill are located on approximately 1,036 acres on the hills south of the village. Built between 1995 and 1998, the current facility has 76 acres of landfill cell area after a 2006 expansion and a total capacity of around 15
million cubic yards of waste. In 2006, a 48-acre addition was approved and built. The current expansion proposal won a 2020 referendum in the town, receiving almost 58% of the vote. The original plans for the landfill indicate up to four expansion referendums could go up for vote during the life of the facility. Written comments will
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WELLSVILLE — Barbara Cobb thought she had seen the last of an antique piano she sold in 2017, but she got the surprise of her life recently when she went to dinner with a group of friends. After the 2014 death of Barbara Williams, owner of the Mather Homestead (now Gildner and Associates), her niece Barbara Cobb of Ulysses, Pa., was left with managing the estate. After a few years of sorting through decades of materials belonging not only to Williams and her husband, but also to her mother and grandmother, Cobb decided to hold an estate sale at the North Main Street house that had been in the family for a century. Rebekah Gena was driving down North Main Street and saw all the cars and decided to stop. She was vacationing in Wellsville from South Carolina with her husband Brad and visiting family. Her trip was due to end soon and
she was getting prepared to head back to their home in the South. As she walked through the Victorian home with rooms filled with items collected over several lifetimes something caught her eye. “I don’t know what it was. I was just drawn to this big, wooden box and when I got close, I realized it was an antique piano,” Gena said. “I had never seen anything like it, but something about it pulled on my heartstrings.” It was a square, grand piano manufactured by the Weber Company in 1875. The mammoth instrument was made from nearly extinct Brazilian rosewood and weighs close to 1,400 pounds (the average weight of a workhorse). It is approximately 7 feet long, nearly 4 feet wide with a depth of around 2 feet. Rebekah, more of an artist than a musician, loves
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