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It happens every once in a while, people thinking that Bob Kehlenbeck in the upstate town of Alabama, actually lives in the deep southern state, the town’s namesake. “Once I had a problem with a truck transmission and the manufacturer said they would have the proper rep call me back. When he called, he had a real southern drawl, and I knew right away he was misled about Alabama. I had to say it’s a town in Genesee County in upstate New York. I get a lot of that over the phone.” Alabama has a population of about 2,000, much the same as in the 1800s. Bob has a crew of three. They plow a total of 150 lane miles for the town, state and the county, including the Tonawanda Indian Reservation of the Seneca Tribe. Native Americans have lived here for more than a century. He says the traffic drawn to the reservation smoke shops is considerable. The highway department’s budget of $600,000 is the largest expense in the town, with $85,900 coming from CHIPS. Surprisingly, Gov. Cuomo anticipates that the town will

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soon become part of a major “game changer” and a globally inspired technological force they are calling STAMP, which stands for the WNY Science and Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park. It’s been called “the largest economic development opportunity in the history of Genesee County.” The sleepy little community, home to thousands of dairy cows, is located in the cross hairs of a project destined to become an epic scale high-tech industrial park. The first tenant, due to break ground any day now, will produce silicon wafers for solar energy less expensively than is now possible using existing technology. These silicon wafers are critical to large-scale solar farming. A company called 1366 Technologies will be the pioneer facility, continued on page 12

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developing a 130,000 square-foot-manufacturing plant. STAMP is situated on 12,500 acres, or about 8 percent of the land suitable for this kind of development in Genesee County. Just 1366 Technologies alone is expected to employ 1,000 well-paid professionals when it reaches total build-out. Entrepreneurs involved in this first tenant expect the company to revolutionize solar energy — cutting the cost of making wafers in half by using technology pioneered at MIT. The name of the company —1366 Technologies — refers to the fact that sunlight falls on the planet at a rate of 1,366 watts per square meter, or 130,000 terawatts of energy annually. To power civilization as we know it, just 17TW are required. Remember the phrase, “where the rubber meets the road”? Well. the town of Alabama is the place where the silicon meets the solar wafer in an area strategically located between Buffalo and Rochester. Visionaries expect solar to replace coal as the cheapest, cleanest fuel source on the planet, and hydro power cuts the cost of making the wafer by a factor of three. So Why Alabama? As of early spring, STAMP is just a large sign on a bare site looking for the project’s $700 million investment to begin. One reason why Alabama was chosen is the relatively low cost for electricity due to nearby Niagara Falls (called cheap and clean in promotional materials). Second is the potential pipeline of capable workers educated at one of many area colleges, including six schools that boast a total of more than 17,000 enrolled engineering students.

Water Cures, Then and Now Heavy hitters behind STAMP have procured tax abatements of a potential $97 million over 10 years. The state and federal governments also have pledged millions for land acquisition and infrastructure. A local newspaper, The Batavian, said 1366 Technologies alone could receive $56 million in incentives from New York with tax abatements of more than $35 million through the Genesee County Economic Development Center. This is big business, not something you find at Home Depot. The wafers are intended for solar energy farms; a heavily subsidized industry that represents about 70 percent of the solar energy market worldwide. Many anticipate an economic boom here unlike anything that’s happened in Alabama for the past century when several hundred tourists each day walked the plank boardwalk from the spa hotels to take the waters at the “sour springs.” The water also was sold in heavy brown glass bottles that looked like root beer. While the springs still gurgle to the surface, they are inaccessible now, sight unseen under a dense canopy of trees and marshes. Bob has lived here much of his life and it’s kind of hard to imagine what the impact will be like in Alabama when STAMP begins to make an impression. He says the town is “sort of” waiting for the other shoe to drop. Will the industrial park roads be assigned to the highway department? Will STAMP funds be used to help get his department a muchneeded larger space, maybe something they can share with the Town

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the farms and the extreme weight of the farm equipment, which puts tremendous stress on the roads. “It’s getting to be a big problem in terms of our roads. With 5,000 to 6,000 heifers just in Alabama, the hauling of milk, feed and manure puts a ton of heavy trucks on our roads. Each tanker can haul about 100,000 lbs. And they are talking about larger units to haul even more. Big equipment means the roads will break down more quickly.”

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Hall? Nearby Oakfield, similarly affected, has already mapped out future residential developments and additional schools. As Bob explains residents’ reaction to change, “Water is a big issue here. Water to STAMP is coming out of Oakfield with 100,000 feet of pipe in Phase One alone.” As a consequence, most of the town of Oakfield now has municipal water, yielding one surprising outcome. Bob says, “When municipal treated water came in, milk production went up significantly on one farm where they milk a total of 5,000 cows. “An unbred heifer requires 30 gallons of water a day just for drinking, not including clean up. A milking cow takes more than 60 gallons a day to survive. When you are milking 5,000 head, which is what they do here, having good safe water becomes a big issue business wise, beyond meeting residents’ needs. “If everything goes right, about 705 households in Alabama will have town water,” he says. While the population of Alabama (about 2,000) remains about the same as it did in the 1880s, for now Bob’s main concern is the size of 16

Family Man and More Bob is a friendly, approachable kind of person. He was born in Middleton and moved to Alabama in 1965 when his father got a new job doing maintenance for a trucking company. His mother was a housewife, tasked with raising seven children. His father began a repair shop where as a youngster Bob honed his mechanical skills. He followed his father to Texas but returned with his wife and daughter after just one year. Texas’s oppressive humidity, fire ants, and snakes were all reasons he came back home. Plus, he had been promised a job in the Alabama highway department if he returned, so, in 1982, he did. Family life today includes his wife, Tina, two daughters, and three grandchildren, plus a new one this spring. For pets he cites a “spastic beagle” and a “fat old cat” they took in when his sister-in-law died. His departure from a traditional lifestyle occurred two years ago when he decided he wanted a motorcycle. “I just got the bug.” He had taken notice of other highway superintendents who were bikers. “I had ridden a friend’s dirt bike when I was 12 years old. We bombed around on that.” continued on page 28

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woman’s husband and his uncle. There wasn’t enough room for her burial.” Bob, a newcomer in the mortuary trade, took his concerns to nearby Oakfield where the highway department has a history with administering an open cemetery. Oakfield didn’t have a clue on what to advise. He also called the local mortuary and the state department assigned to cemeteries asking for guidance. “The state said I have two options: Offer a grave site someplace else and bury mom and dad sometime later. Or, get notarized permission to dig dad up and move him to a place in the cemetery with room for his wife.” The direct relatives elected to have dad’s urn dug up and set aside until their mother was in the ground. Then, unknown to other family members, the urn was set in with his wife’s vault. “They elected to put him in with mom, but they didn’t want the grandchildren to know this.” To make things easier in arranging eternal care, Bob says he notes everything on his computer records including notations if the burial is for an urn or a vault. A more contemporary problem involves the tendency to add sometimes garish decorations to a grave site, which upsets people visiting family plots nearby. “Having people complain that the cemetery was beginning to look gaudy is a problem. Having to communicate about such issues is not easily done. You’ve got certain rules to follow including no permanent planting. continued on page 60

Bob says the town has lots of through traffic and many of those vehicles are heading for one of several “smoke shops” on the reservation where tobacco and gasoline are significantly less expensive than elsewhere in the state. 48

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“We dig the holes, we prepare the foundation. We see families who come in for pre-buying because somebody in the family is terminally ill. We get young people who have died unexpectedly. It falls back on the taxpayers now, and we just had to raise our prices this year.” What to Do When 40 Percent of Town Land Is Not Taxed Being home to three different wildlife refuge centers totaling many thousands of acres of unbridled wilderness and marshes gives Alabama its distinctive character. But 40 percent of the land also is not taxable, which means there is a juggling act between what is naturally beautiful and what it costs to maintain those wilderness places. The Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge covers 10,818 acres, extending into Orleans County, and the largest federal refuge in the state. Several more thousand acres of refuges, including the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management area and the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, add to this waterway paradise for migratory birds and numerous mammals including beaver and muskrat. An old overgrown feeder for the Erie Canal is still visible near the Tonawanda Creek. While lovely to look at, the marshes and swamps cause problems on the roads. “The ditches have all grown up and they aren’t maintaining them as well as they once did. Along with the creeks all water flows into Lake Ontario. The water can’t get away even when the creeks are low. It floods out the roads.” Bob says the changing rain patterns haven’t helped either.

Bob takes a look at the map of Alabama where STAMP — a proposed industrial high tech park — will occupy 12,500 acres, or about 8 percent of the Genesee County land suitable for this kind of development. Ground will soon be broken for the first tenant —1366 Technologies — manufacturer of silicon wafer chips designed for solar energy farms.

“We used to get spring rains, now we get deluges of 2 to 3 inches at a time.” Just viewing the many refuge areas from a car window you can see great blue herons in flight, ospreys nesting on the top of a pole, and many songbirds vocalizing constantly. Visitors enjoy exercising here because they won’t get run over by cars. Often they approach a blocked bridge that is now a bike trail, using what was once a dirt through road on Bob’s continued on page 64

So far it’s just a sign, but 1366 Technologies will soon break ground to become the first anchor tenant at STAMP — a proposed $700 million, 10,500acre tech park in Alabama. 60

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agenda. “This road used to go all the way through until someone came along and hit the bridge, which fell right into the creek. It was a county bridge and the cost of repair was a million dollars for a little used road. So they elected to end the road for vehicles right here.” Where Rubber Meets the Road Bob says he is grateful that he inherited good roads when he took over the position as superintendent. Even though the building is too small and old, he says most of the equipment is sufficient, even if it’s not replaced as often as he would like it to be. “The town board would like us to keep equipment longer than we want to. I’ve tried to impress upon them that after nine or 10 years, you start buying the truck back through repairs and stuff. The vehicles take a lot of hard abuse and get fatigued. “We just ordered a new Mack. Our most recent one is a 2014 Mack. The drivers like all the Macks’ computer controls for snow and ice removal. It has electronically controlled hydraulics, which I was leery about at first. I mean when I was starting out, it was all operated with cables and rods. Then they went to air controls. If you didn’t keep the system clean, stuff would get into the controls. Now it is fingertip control. It’s almost bullet proof.” With the STAMP program and its potential for Alabama becoming a boom town gleaming in their headlights, it’s fair to ask Bob if he is in continued on page 68

Due to a car accident that totaled a county bridge that once spanned this waterway, the dirt road is now closed to through traffic. Bob says the county was unwilling to pay the $1 million for repairs on this little-used, seasonal dirt road.

Bob at the Alabama Town Hall's historical exhibit. He says he learned more about early history, especially the French and Indian War period, when he and his wife became re-enactors. 64

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favor of the changes to come. “I don’t know if I am or not. Nobody really knows yet what they will be. You hear one thing, then another. It hasn’t quite shaken out. I personally don’t see the need for tax credits. If the state cut their taxes, that would bring business in.” Ready or not, life in Alabama — and the highway department — is about to experience a historic, seismic shift. About the Town of Alabama It was French fur trader William Poudrit who set up a trading post in what is now the Tonawanda Indian Reservation in Alabama while staking his claim as the first white pioneer here. Some of the area’s most notable residents were Native Americans, including a chief named William Parker who served in the War of 1812. His wife was a niece of the famous Red Jacket, and his son, General Ely S. Parker, for many years a chief, was an aide on the staff of General Ulysses S. Grant. The reservation, now 7,500 acres, once numbered 45,000 acres. First settled around 1806, the town of Alabama was established in 1826. Originally called “Gerrysville” after then Vice-President Elbridge Gerry, the town in 1828, for unknown reasons, chose to name itself after a southern state. When the first town meeting was held in 1826, among those elected were three gentlemen chosen as “commissioner of highways,” making Bob Kehlenbeck part of an illustrious, nearly 200-year-long history. State Roads 63 and 77 intersect in the town, so there has always been plenty of through traffic. One of its loftiest times in history came in the

1880s when water cures were very popular. Water from local sour springs was bottled for medicinal purposes, and a 37-room hotel named “Spring House,” offered tourists bed and board. The once famous Alabama Sour Springs number eight or nine and are remarkable in that while they all lie within a circle of 50 rods, water testing has shown that no two springs are alike in their cocktail of elements. The main ingredients that medical practitioners claimed had medicinal value are sulfuric acid, proto-sulphate of iron, alumina, lime, magnesia, potash, soda, chloride of sodium, and silica in varying amounts. The sour springs water was bottled and transported across the country. One account has 25,000 bottles being sold in one year at 25 cents a bottle, a not inconsiderable sum then, even for medicine. One doctor tried to capture the sour water’s virtues when he said, “The peculiar character of these waters renders them useful in treating many chronic diseases, especially those of the digestive organs, especially stomach, and bowels.” It’s in the town hall’s lovingly-put-together exhibit of Alabama history where visitors get a good idea of what life in Alabama has been like, largely unchanged from the horse and buggy days. The buggies themselves, the marching band uniforms, patriotic materials, and those large, dark brown glass bottles that took the water from the Alabama Sour Springs to cure the world from stomach troubles, have a nice homey glow. One wonders what items from the STAMP project will one day find their way into the exhibit. Just think of it, silicon wafer chips surrounded by the dusty reminders of what life was once like here in this farming community, largely unchanged for nearly 200 years. P

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