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Former longtime Wellsville baseball coach Dennie Miles will be inducted into the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday as part of the Class of 2021.
Santa and Mrs. Claus arrive in Wellsville for a Christmas-season past. Plans are underway for a revisit to take place Nov. 27.
Wellsville Chamber firms up plans for holiday season BY KATHRYN ROSS WELLSVILLE — Holidayseason event planning is underway for the village as the Chamber Events Committee finalizes its list for its Hometown Holidays. Starting on the Saturday following Thanksgiving there will be a parade, fireworks, visits from Santa Claus and much more. All plans concerning street closures are tentative at this point and awaiting approval by the village board, Bruce Thomas, executive chairman of the Wellsville Area Chamber of Commerce, said. What’s being planned includes an opening day on Nov. 27, when local businesses will celebrate Small Business Saturday and the
Chamber will hand out gift certificates to shoppers taking advantage of the deals that will be offered. The event encourages shopping local and supporting the local merchants who help support the community. Later in the day at a time yet to be determined, local schools, businesses and organizations will be participating in a parade that will officially bring Santa to town. The Santa Parade will stop at the David A. Howe Library, where that Jolly Old Elf will officially turn on the lights at the annual Lions Club’s Fantasy of Lights on the library lawn. Contact the Chamber to join in the parade or to sponsor a Christmas tree.
Grab a good seat after the parade. for the annual Mel Mickle Memorial Fireworks Display. The fireworks are made possible through local donations. The Chamber is accepting donations for this planned event. The display will take place across the highway and river from the library and will be seen throughout the village. Hometown Holidays continues with special events being scheduled for Saturdays, Dec. 4, 11 and 18, including a craft show at Morning Glory next to the Chamber office. On Dec. 4th, the committee wants to sponsor a Drive-Thru Santa at one of the local banks. Chamber Membership Services Coordinator Karen Kania
said the event was very popular last year because of the pandemic, but that more advertising was needed to attract a larger crowd. On Dec. 11th, the committee is planning to bring back a blast from the past – the annual Santa Sprint first sponsored ten years ago by the Music on the Lawn committee. Runners are required to be dressed as Santa Claus and a prize will be given to the best dressed. Sign-ups will be the day of the event. The race will start at State Street with the finish line at Pearl Street. On Dec. 18th, the committee has planned to have Santa tour the village. A map has been designed showing
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The New York State Baseball Hall of Fame has inducted some of the greats from the New York Yankees and Mets over the years, as well as state-born broadcasters like Bob Costas. On Sunday, a rare high school inductee will go in the hall when Wellsville’s Dennis “Dennie” Miles gives his induction speech in Troy. Miles is part of the 2021 class along with former New York Yankees Bernie WIlliams and Bobby Richardson and Mets World Series heroes Cleon Jones and Mookie Wilson. Also to be inducted are Perry Barber, an MLB umpire and one of eight professional female umpires, Joe Solimine, who broke down the color barrier as a minor league player in three organizations and founded the Pelham Mets, Dom Scala, former MLB scout, Yankees bullpen coach and longtime Adelphi baseball coach, Emmy-award winning filmmaker Ken Burns (Civil War,
History of Baseball), the late Shannon Forde, who ran the New York Mets’ media relations department before passing away from breast cancer and Jay Horwitz, the former longtime Mets public relations director who hired Forde first as an intern in 1994. Rene M. LeRoux, executive director of the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame, said the hall is thrilled to have Miles enter with the Class of 2021. “We are thrilled to be inducting Dennis, with an incredible body of work in baseball. A head coach for over 40 years, Dennis has 749 wins, second all-time in New York State,” LeRoux said. “Dennis has been coach of the year eight times, Section 5 champions an incredible 13 times and was NYS Coach of the Year in 1993.” After retiring from Wellsville in 2018, he
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Wellsville town highway superintendent steps down BY KATHRYN ROSS
WELLSVILLE — Allen Hopkins will present a free concert, “Songs of the Civil War,” at 7 p.m. Nov. 18 in the Nancy Howe Auditorium at the David A. Howe Public Library. Hopkins is a multi-instrumental musician from Rochester. Over 40 years of playing, hearing and collecting traditional folk music has given him a real feel for its history, and for the way folk songs echo events in our country’s past. Immigration, the pioneer experience, sectional conflict, civil rights, industrial development, the labor movement, patriotism and protest are all embodied in folk music. Over the past few years he has worked with the Strong Museum in Rochester, the Salt Museum in Syracuse, the Museum of Early Trades and Crafts in New Jersey,
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Fillmore boys soccer loses in NYS final The Fillmore boys soccer team reached the final possible game of the season for a Class D school for just the second time in school history in unbelievable fashion Saturday night. The Eagles fell one victory short of the ultimate goal, winning a New York State Class D title. In Sunday’s championship game, Mount Academy (Section 9) took a 3-0 lead on Fillmore and held on for a 3-1 victory. Mitchell Ward had the lone goal in the final for Fillmore. The championship loss ends Fillmore’s season at 203. The Eagles made the state championship game for just the second time in program history, after the 2000 team did so, and made their sixth trip to the state final four under coach Jamie Mullen, who this year became the winningest coach in Allegany County boys soccer history. Fillmore finally played Chazy (Section 7) the night of Nov. 13 in the state semifinal. Neither team emerged as the victor through regulation or two sudden death overtime periods. After 100 minutes of soccer, Fillmore stood even with Chazy, 0-0. That’s when the game, by postseason rule, went to
penalty kicks to finally decide a victor. Through six kicks, Fillmore still stood even with Chazy, 5-5, in converted penalty tries. Matt Majoros, Brent Zubikowski, Layton Sanasith, Mitch Ward and Zach Sisson all scored PK goals. But the match finally came down to two plays by the same player: goalkeeper Luke Colombo, who had already made eight saves to keep Fillmore in the game to that point. Colombo made a PK save to give Fillmore a chance to win on the following kick, and Mullen gave the goalie the chance to score it himself. Columbo buried a ball into the net past his Chazy counterpart to give Fillmore a marathon semifinal victory. FILLMORE GIRLS LOSE IN SEMIS After 21 games, the Fillmore girls soccer team finally met its match. The Eagles ran through an undefeated regular season and five playoff games with a perfect record to reach the state’s final four for the second time in program history, and first since 1984. But a two-goal deficit in Saturday’s NYSPHSAA Class D semifinal proved to be just
a bit too much for Fillmore to overcome, falling 2-1 to Section 9’s Mount Academy. Down 2-0 at halftime, Fillmore pressed to get back into the game and finally scored with a 72nd-minute Sophia Templeton goal, the senior forward’s 18th of the season. Fillmore sophomore goalkeeper Preslee Miller recorded 10 saves in net to keep the Eagles within striking distance for much of the day. Mount Academy’s Shayna Kaiser made five saves.
WELLSVILLE — After 13 years of directing the repair and snowplowing of roads, Wellsville’s highway superintendent is stepping down. Dean Arnold submitted his letter of resignation to Town Supervisor Shad Alsworth earlier in November. He declined to give a reason and after the meeting told reporters, “I have no comment at this time. A statement will be forthcoming.” Alsworth had little to say except for thanking Arnold for his years of service and wishing him luck in the future. As for who will run the highway department in the near future, longtime employee and Deputy Superintendent Brian Smith will take over. Arnold will be on the job until Nov. 22. The announcement preceded the town board’s discussion concerning filling the seat left vacant when Councilman Bill Fish resigned at the end of September. Councilwoman Patty Graves suggested since the board members have received eighteen or more letters of interest and resumes for the position that the members pen some questions to ask the candidates. Alsworth said that he would like to know political viewpoints, but later explained that he doesn’t care what political stripe a candidate wears and is more interested in their ethics and experience. Since the board won’t have their slate of questions prepared before its next meeting scheduled for December, Alsworth said they may not even have a candidate in
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for the fire department with $3,000 for insurances and $20,000 for attorney fees included. 2022 budget The second hearing was on the town budget for 2022. There is zero increase in the funds going to the town. The total budget is just over $4.16 million with a tax levy of about $1.73 million. More than $2 million in reimbursements offsets the total budget. While those property owners in the town outside the village will see less than half a percentage point increase, those living in the village will see a little over half a percentage point increase due to increases in wages, and insurance costs. The board approved the budget. In other business the board learned from Jack Jones who is coordinating the highway/town hall building project between the town and the Building and Trades Department at Alfred State College, that the project is ahead of schedule at this point. Keeping it on schedule, he said, depends on the availability of windows to finish enclosing the building before winter hits. The original window order has been delayed until Dec. 21 after the fall semester ends. The windows aren’t currently available locally and Jones said the supplier is looking at its other stores to try and fill the order before the end of the semester. The next board meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Dec. 8 at the airport.
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on baseball and the SUNYAC Player of the Year and his conference championship team was recently honored by the college. Miles attended Friendship Central School. Miles led AvocaPrattsburgh to the finals last season and is still active with a chance to become the alltime winningest coach in state history. “Dennis Miles has accomplished an incredible level of success and achieved more than almost everyone coaching in high school in New York,” said LeRoux. “This is a well deserved induction for a
true gentleman.” Miles said he was humbled when he was told by longtime St. Bonaventure baseball supporters they nominated him, and that he didn’t expect to join so many professional coaches and players in the state hall of fame. “There is no way to thank all the players, assistant coaches, parents and community members who supported and support our programs over the years,” Miles said. “This will be a special weekend as my family will be a big part of it along with other lifetime friends.”
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1 death, 132 COVID cases over weekend in Allegany County BELMONT — County health authorities on Nov. 15 reported fewer COVID-19 cases over the weekend than the one before, but three more deaths were tallied in the past week. Allegany County health officials reported 132 cases were reported between Nov. 12 and Nov. 15, bringing the total reported to daste to 5,582. Meanwhile, state Department of Health data reported 109 deaths among county residents in state-licensed facilities, including one on Sunday. Three deaths were reported in the last week. By comparison, 143 new cases and one death were reported over the
Members of the Wellsville American Legion get ready to raise and lower the flag at a Veterans Day ceremony in Veterans Memorial Park while the color guard stands at attention.
Bolivar-Richburg moves to virtual through Nov. 29 due to COVID BOLIVAR — The BolivarRichburg Central School District has moved to a virtual learning model due to COVID-19. In a letter to parents posted on the district’s website, Superintendent Michael Retzlaff announced the school would move to remote learning through Nov. 29. “This was a tough decision because of the hardship such decisions place upon families and students,” he said. “But as a school district, our number one priority is the health and safety of all our students and staff. We will be updating
parents and staff via the school website, global connect calls, and social media as we learn more information.” Meal pickups will be held at the junior-senior high school on Monday. Registration information is available on the school’s website, www.brcs. wnyric.org. Winter sports practices were expected to begin after school hours next week, officials said.
“Because of the Thanksgiving break, we will be able to return to in-person learning on Monday, Nov. 29,” Retzlaff said. “If this should change, we will send out further updates.” Parents and guardians with questions or concerns are encouraged to contact their primary care physician, the school nurse, the district office at (585) 928-2937, or the Allegany County Department of Health at (585) 268-9250.
previous weekend. In the week ending Nov. 14, 328 new cases were reported — up from 280 the week before and 248 the week prior. In cases reported in the last week, 72 were in the town of Wellsville; 25 were in the town of Bolivar; 23 were in each of the towns of Andover and Cuba; and 20 were in the town of Caneadea. Seven towns reported no cases. Younger patients are making the largest number of COVID-19 cases in the county. Of the cases reported to date, 972 were aged 20 to 29 — 17.4% of all cases — while the second-highest age
group were those between 10 and 19 with 836 cases at 15% of all cases. Breakthrough cases — individuals who are fully vaccinated — continue to make up around one in five reported cases. Since Aug. 20, 390 of the roughly 1,900 cases reported have been among fully vaccinated individuals, or 20.5% of all reported cases. County officials noted 762 active quarantines were in place Monday afternoon — down from over 800 on Nov. 14. As of Nov. 15, 44.5% of the county’s population has received at least one vaccine dose — up by 4/10 of a point in a
week. The county’s rate has been the lowest in the state through virtually all of the time since vaccines began being distributed in late 2020. Statewide, 72.6% of residents — up about 7/10th of a point in a week — have received at least one dose. New York County — Manhattan Island — reports 85.1% of the 1.6 million residents have received at least one dose, including almost 93% of all adults. In terms of residents with completed vaccine series, state officials report 41.3% of Allegany County residents have received a completed vaccine series.
How to make driving in inclement weather more safe
Drivers can take several steps to improve their visibility when driving in poor weather conditions. • Inspect and change windshield wiper blades. Wipers are instrumental in clearing precipitation away from the windshield. If they’re not functioning properly, wipers cannot do their jobs. Drivers should replace their wipers at the first indication that they are no longer effective. In some conditions, wipers can freeze or stick. Drivers should then pull over and clean the wipers manually. • Clear obstructions. Always make sure the windshield is clear before driving.
This can include removing ice and snow in the winter and cleaning off mud or bug splatter in the spring and summer. Use the front and rear defrost if condensation fogs up windshields and windows. • Slow down. Foul weather can reduce drivers’ ability to see far into the distance. Drivers should always drive slower in inclement weather in order to improve reaction time. • Top off fluids. Always keep the windshield washer reservoir full and keep extra fluid in the trunk. In addition, look for a fluid that does not freeze in very cold temperatures.
• Learn how to drive in fog. Each year, more than 38,700 vehicle crashes occur in fog, states the Federal Highway Administration. Travelers Insurance recommends slowing down, staying focused and using regular headlights and not high beams when driving in fog. • Go out only if necessary. In snowy or icy conditions, drive only if it’s absolutely necessary, as snow and ice
can impair visibility and make roads slick, says AAA. • Avoid driving at dusk and dawn. The human eye can have trouble adjusting to rapidly changing light and darkness conditions, which are common at dusk and dawn. If possible, drivers should make trips during the heart of the day, especially if poor lighting conditions typically make it difficult for them to drive.
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