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John Rigas, founder of fallen Adelphia, dies at 96 BY MARCIE SCHELLHAMMER John Rigas, founder of the former cable television giant Adelphia Communications Corp. and former owner of the Buffalo Sabres, who went to prison in a federal fraud case after the collapse of his empire, died Thursday in Coudersport, Pa. He was 96. Rigas, a son of Greek immigrants and who built Adelphia from the ground up, was granted compassionate release from a federal prison sentence in 2016 due to declining health, as he had bladder cancer that had spread to his lungs. At the time, attorneys said Rigas had approximately 6 months to live. Rigas and his son, Timothy, were both indicted for bank, wire and securities fraud in 2002, convicted in 2004, and sentenced to 15 years in federal prison in

2005. After an appeal was rejected in 2007, Rigas and his son were ordered to report to prison and, a year later, their final appeal was struck down in federal court. The family has maintained that the Rigases are innocent. Rigas founded Adelphia in Coudersport, building it into what was once the nation’s fifth-largest cable company, with more than 5 million customers in 31 states and Puerto Rico. It was a business that he built from nothing, explained Donald Gilliland, contributing editor of The Hill and former editor of the Potter Leader Enterprise newspaper in Coudersport. Gilliland spent six months in New York City covering the Rigas trial for The Era and other area newspapers.

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Photo provided Friends Improving Allegany County Trails Inc. gathers for a trail cleanup at the Phillips Creek Preserve on Sept. 25, as more than 40 people turned out to help.

Making an IMPACT: Trails group gets active in Allegany County BY KATHRYN ROSS ALFRED — A new group wants to bring trails throughout Allegany County to the attention of the public. Friends Improving Allegany County Trails Inc. held a trail cleanup at the Phillips Creek State Forest on Sept. 25 and more than 40 people turned out to help. “We want people to know that the trails are out here,” Glenn Gebhard, president of IMPACT: Friends Improving Allegany County Trails, Inc., said. “They are a wonderful resource for Allegany

County. They are beautiful and the fall colors are breathtaking.” Gebhard lives only a few feet from the Phillips Creek Trail System off Route 244 — west of Alfred — and routinely hikes there. “We always wondered why they never maintained the trails, then we realized there was no ‘they,’” he said. In February the group formed to be the “they” and not only maintain the trails, but also to bring awareness to them, improve use and encourage

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Photo Provided Andover Haunted House committee president Bob Meyers is getting ready to open the door to 5 W. Greenwood St. and offer thrills and chills this Halloween season.

‘Sinister Estate’: Andover Haunted House opens today BY KATHRYN ROSS ANDOVER — For more than 20 years the Andover Haunted House Committee has been putting the scare into Halloween and this year is no exception. The Haunted House, at 5 W. Greenwood St. (just off Main Street), opened Oct. 1 with its annual Haunted For Hooters event to raise funds for Allegany County Cancer Services. Proceeds from the first 50 tickets sold for this event will go to the CSAC which helps county residents who have received a cancer diagnosis travel for treatment by providing them with gas cards. Members of the committee said, along with providing a safe, scary good time, the haunted house raises funds for scholarships and helps out community organizations such as CSAC. Those are the reasons the 80 or so

volunteers start putting together the haunted house way back in July. Members of the committee stay abreast of the latest in scary tactics and paraphernalia by attending events and conventions throughout the year. The haunted house is open every Friday and Saturday in October from 7 to 11 p.m., with the last date being Oct. 30. The theme this year is “Sinister Estate,” which features four floors of terrifying characters and skin-crawling displays around every corner that put horror, terror, and torture into the bravest hearts. Advertising boasts “the only thing you have to fear … is us” For the brave or foolhardy the committee is also offering a special event: an escape room called the “Camp Witch’s Curse.” With the

purchase of an additional ticket, participants get to match wits, and solve puzzles, to gain their release from the escape room. A special night of thrills is scheduled for Oct. 28, from 7 to 9 p.m., when the Southern Tier Guiding Eyes For the Blind organization will benefit from the event proceeds. Throughout the month the committee is hosting a 300 Club to benefit an organization raising funds for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) research. Due to COVID-19, personal protective masks are required for all visitors and social distancing protocols are in effect. Tickets at special prices may be purchased online by going to www.hauntedandover.com. The committee also offers a wide range of souvenirs both on site and online.

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James G. and Marilyn A. Ferry Endowed Scholarship at Alfred State to assist students with a desire to learn and who have the need for financial assistance. He served as the speaker for Alfred State’s 104th commencement in May 2015 and was the recipient of the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award.

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Paramount+’s new ‘Paranormal’ horror movie filmed in Allegany County

Paramount photo Paramount+’s upcoming horror film, “Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin,” was filmed in Allegany County.

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Currently, he is a journalism professor at St. Bonaventure University. “First, the past is the past. What happened, happened. I don’t think it serves anyone’s interest to relitigate the trial,” Gilliland said. Instead, he talked about his experience in getting to know John Rigas during the months spent in the courtroom. There weren’t a lot of people who sat through the monthslong trial, mostly just members of the Rigas family and a few members of the media. “Very often there was an older, white-haired man who would sit all the way in the back,” Gilliland explained. “Oftentimes during breaks, John would go back and sit down next to this guy and they would chat and laugh. It was clear they were old friends.” Curious, Gilliland approached the man. “He was an old cable guy. He had known John from the old days. He thought it might be nice for John to see a familiar face.” Gilliland explained that when the Adelphia scandal hit, it was the company’s 50th anniversary. This man told Gilliland about Rigas’ hard work building the cable company from the ground up, and about the tremendous amount of work that had gone into it. He described Rigas driving his own vehicle to other states and places to try to build a customer base, and “literally go knocking doorto-door to get customers. It’s easy to forget that.” “It was a hell of a lot of work

and John did it,” Gilliland said. “He literally built a cable company from scratch. By 2002 it was the fifth-largest cable company in the United States. “John started out with ambition and entrepreneurial spirit and built something that hadn’t existed before, and he worked his tail off to do it. “Whatever happened at the end, I don’t think that should overshadow it.” Gilliland shared another observation from his months in the courtroom — Rigas was a kind and pleasant man. “I got to know John at one of the lowest points of his life,” Gilliland said. “Courtrooms are not known for being particularly great places to strike up friendships. Yet as soon as there was a break, John would stand up and walk straight over to the reporters to chat.” So much so, in fact, that the judge admonished the reporters for talking to the defendant, despite Rigas being the one to initiate conversation. Gilliland said he keeps in touch with reporters from the trial, and “the reminiscences of John are always pleasant. He was friendly and chatty. He had a personality that was difficult not to like. “The bottom line was he was a charming guy.” Adelphia filed for bankruptcy after a seemingly off-hand admission by an executive, in March of 2002, that the company had more than $2 billion in off-book loans, not included in its annual Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The viability and net worth of the company were seen in an entirely different light in the wake of that disclosure. Rigas was ousted from the board of directors. Adelphia spiraled down, and cable companies it owned were acquired by competitors.

HORNELL (TNS) — An Allegany County community will take its star turn Oct. 29 when the latest installment of a popular and profitable horror movie franchise arrives just in time for Halloween on Paramount+. The premium channel recently released the first teaser for “Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin” — the seventh installment in the foundfootage movies series and the first to head directly to the nation’s television and mobile screens rather than its movie theaters. Produced by The Paramount Players and Blumhouse Productions, major photography for “Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin” was shot last spring in the northern Allegany County town of Allen at a white, two-story Amishbuilt farmhouse. A nearby

barn housed all of the accoutrements of filmmaking, including lights, cameras and sound equipment. The property had been vacant prior to the arrival of the filmmakers. The producers also rented out the Short Tract Volunteer Fire Company’s hall and surrounding land, where they parked a tractor trailer-sized generator, several large trailers, a food truck and a fleet of school buses and vans to shuttle cast and crew to the set. There may be some familiar Western New York actors in the production. Earlier this year, Casting Buffalo issued a notice for “Amishtype folk” including an “Elder grandfather — male, Caucasian, 70+, weathered appearance, full beards (willing to match proper Amish-type look), no visible

tattoos or piercings, healthy.” Other roles include an elder grandmother, young adults, children who can sing, and people who have experience working with horses and buggies or in carpentry and blacksmithing. According to the Hollywood Reporter, “Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin” is directed by William Eubank, written by Christopher Landon and stars Emily Bader, Roland Buck III, Dan Lippert, and Henry Ayers-Brown. The 30-second trailer announces “The Activity” is “reborn,” an indication that “Next of Kin” is a new direction in a franchise that began in 2007 with the release of “Paranormal Activity.” The latest movie in the franchise was “Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension,” released in 2015.

Adelphia prosecutors had accused Rigas and others of using complicated cash-management systems to spread money around to various family-owned entities and as a cover for stealing about $100 million for themselves by using the company’s financial ledger like a personal piggy bank. The Rigases involved were ordered to give up a major portion of their assets, but a bankruptcy judge later allowed some of them to retain several local companies “to make a living.” They formed Zito Media Communications, and have expanded repeatedly, now holding numerous cable franchises and providing internet services, digital phone and other communications services to corporate, municipal and school district customers. Adelphia was sold to Time Warner and Comcast in April 2005 for $17.6 billion. In February of 2007, the former Time Warner call center in Coudersport closed, putting 500 people out of work. All told, losing the company meant the loss of 1,500 jobs in Coudersport. Gilliland said one of Rigas’ legacies is that Coudersport is one of the most highly wired towns in the United States. “What John was trying

to do in terms of locating a major business in a rural area, I think, was forwardlooking, to some extent ahead of its time,” he said. “Unfortunately, I don’t know that anyone in Potter County government has leveraged the infrastructure they have as much as they could have.” There’s fiber optics in place all over the community. With working remotely so much more prevalent after the pandemic, Rigas literally laid the groundwork to make Coudersport a thriving community, Gilliland said. “Because there’s fiber all over Coudersport, there’s all kinds of business that could operate out of that town if the (government) had the wherewithal to recruit them,” he said. John Rigas was born in Wellsville, N.Y., in 1924, to Greek immigrants, James and Eleni Rigas. Known as an entrepreneur from early on, Rigas began as a shoe-shine man in Wellsville before introducing Texas hots — chili-topped hotdogs — to the community in 1921. After serving in the U.S. Army in World War II, he returned to Wellsville and enrolled at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., studying engineering.

He took a job with Sylvania in Emporium. In 1952, he started his first business venture, buying a movie theater in Coudersport. The Rigas cable television enterprise first started in Coudersport when the family purchased the town’s TV cable franchise. Always looking to grow his company, Rigas had teamed with his brother Gus to start Adelphia after buying out his partners. They borrowed heavily to buy more and more suburban cable companies and avoided city franchises. Eventually, Adelphia became the largest cable provider outside Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and South Florida and had systems reaching more than 30 states and more than 5.6 million customers. Adelphia also launched product lines such as highspeed cable Internet service and long-distance telephone service. Rigas had owned the Buffalo Sabres franchise of the National Hockey League. Following his arrest, the NHL stripped him of his authority over the Sabres. After more than a year as a ward of the league, the franchise was purchased by Tom Golisano.

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such as recently washed-out use our trails and get out into walk in the woods,” Gebhard areas or new downed trees, so the forest to enjoy nature and said. “It is good for the soul.” the group or the DEC can rec- its beauty and the solitude of a tify any problems. IMPACT is a non-profit organization and has no plans for fundraisers, but they are hoping to purchase the two pieces of equipment, a roller and drag, needed to groom the trails for cross-country skiing. The equipment will cost about $6,000 to purchase. Donations for the equipment and maintenance costs are appreciated and may be made on the group’s Facebook page. The group is also looking for grant opportunities. While there are no more workdays scheduled for this year, two full moon crosscountry skiing events are planned for Jan. 17 and Feb. 16. A general meeting, election of officers and trail cleanup are being scheduled for the last weekend in April. “We want to urge people to

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