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VOLUME 3 ISSUE 32
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OCTOBER 17 - 23, 2014
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Haunting Events for Everyone
Calendar of Events Open through Oct. 31 Pumpkinville
Ellicottville Provides a Climbing, Screaming, Creative, Dancing Good Time for Adults & Kids
Open through Nov. 2 Nightmare Hayrides October 17 - 18 Sky High Adventure Park Night Crawlers Night Climb October 25 Job Fair Holiday Valley November 1 EVL Half Marathon, 5K and Kids’ Race
By Alicia Dziak
Just because you’re all grown up, doesn’t mean you can’t have fun during Halloween Season. Ellicottville and the surrounding towns offer a great variety of spooktacular activities for the oh-so-slightlymore-mature set. Haunting Events Since there’s safety in numbers, gather up some friends (especially those who won’t mind you jumping into their laps!) and head to Nightmare Hayrides on Sommerville St., a haunting experience that begins with a 25-minute, tractor-drawn ride down a creepy path with live creatures haunting the way. Next stop on the journey is a haunted maze sprawling over an acre of land, followed by a trip through the haunted barn, featuring a dizzying vortex tunnel. A new feature this year is the Gothic Chamber that you really must experience for yourself! Nightmare Hayrides are held at the same location as the Ellicottville Championship Rodeo, 6319 Sommerville Valley Rd. in Ellicottville on Friday, Saturday and Sunday
November 1-2 East Otto Country Associates Open House November 7 Beer Fest Brewers Dinner Holiday Valley
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November 8 Beer and Wine Festival November 16 Routes to Art Holiday Sale at Holiday Valley November 28 Christmas in Ellicottville November 28 Target Ski Slopes Open at Holiday Valley December 5 Irish Christmas December 6 Christmas Stroll & Living Nativity December 20 Demo Day at Holiday Valley
See Haunting for Everyone on page 11
Ellicottville-Great Valley Trail Bike Raffle Winners Announced
Village Board Meets Pre-Fall Festival Considers Solar Energy for Wastewater Plant By Jann Wiswall
bikes ready to be raffled as a fundraiser for the Ellicottville-Great Valley Trail building project. The two generously donated bicycles were drawn on Sunday. Congratulations go to Margie Magara, who won the mountain bike donated by the family of Alan Brown, and to Debbie Stein, winner of the cruiser, donated by Bike and Bean Shop. The bicycle fundraiser raised approximately $3,760 for the trail. The bike raffle was the Ellicottville-Great Valley Trail Committee’s first official fundraising event, with a goal of beginning construction on County Encourages Attendance the first section of the trail between the Town Center and Route 219 (near Tim Hortons) in at Trails Meeting Oct. 22 If you were in the village during Fall Festival 2015. The trail committee is eagerly waiting last weekend, you surely noticed the two beautiful See Bike Raffle Winners page 10
The Village of Ellicottville’s October board meeting was held a week early, on Wednesday, Oct. 8, to accommodate the Columbus Day holiday and to give members a chance to meet and review final preparations
Local School District Looking to Tap Solar Power
Begins Review of Two Fillmore Developments
before Fall Festival weekend. Board Member and Special Events committee Chair Patra Lowes reported that she felt that the village was well prepared. The board complimented the committee for its hard work and felt that everything that
could be done in advance had been done. Board Member Greg Cappelli shared that he had received an inquiry from some part-time residents about giving vacation homeowners See Village Board page 2
Planning Board OKs Armor Inn, 1887 Building Site Plan By Jann Wiswall
Following public hearings on the matter, the Village Planning Board approved on Oct. 14 the application for a
special use permit to “operate a new restaurant in an existing commercial building” and the application for a site plan amendment “to alter the previously approved site plan for parking expansion and building addition.” The special use permit for
the Armor Inn restaurant in the Village Centre property at East Washington and Mill streets in its current physical space was approved after months of review and community input. The restaurant will open before ski season and plans to serve See Planning Board page 5
Town Board Stands by Townline Road Decision Fall Festival Police Activity Reported K-Solar Program Designed to Help Save Money and Energy
By Daniel Meyer
As one of the fastest growing sources for energy, solar power usage is gaining popularity throughout the country. Thanks to
a state program, local school districts have an opportunity to use that type of energy to help reduce costs while at the same time help protect the environment by reducing the school’s carbon footprint. K-Solar is a joint project of the New York See Solar Power page 11
By Jann Wiswall
Ann Williams and Richard Steinberg, two of a group of owners of a vacation property off Townline Road (aka Stoney Lonesome), had the privilege of the floor for the third month
in a row at the Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, meeting of the Town of Ellicottville’s board. The owners have argued that the road leading to the home is owned by the town and that maintenance of the
road inexplicably stopped in 2003. In August, they asked the board for help getting the town highway supervisor to agree to reinstate maintenance. Over the next months, See Town Board page 5