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Wellsville Chamber hosts annual awards dinner BY KATHRYN ROSS
WELLSVILLE — For more than 30 years the Wellsville Area Chamber of Commerce has given out awards, and this year’s was the most well-attended event in Chamber Executive Director Bruce Thomas’ recollection. “We have a great crowd here tonight to honor our businesses and volunteers and I think this is the largest number of guests we’ve had during my time here,” he said. The event served at the Wellsville Country Club saw awards presented to six individuals
and two businesses. In recent years the Chamber has increased the number of awards it offers. It now recognizes individuals for service in Caregiving, First Responders, Educators, Veterans, and Youth in addition to the traditional awards for Community Service, the Newest Business and Business of the Year. The most impressive awards were handed out to Kent Brewing Company of Andover for the Business of the Year and New Business of the Year, to the Solutions Hub of Wellsville. The coveted Community Service award was
presented, for a second time, to Tim Colligan. Upon Kent Brewing Company receiving The Business of the Year award founder and brew meister Ed Kent took the podium. He thanked his family for their support in getting the business started and their continued support. Kent Beer Company started in 2020, brewing five gallons of beer at a time. It now brews over 2500 gallons annually. In addition to serving 19 varieties of beer, the brewery accommodates parties and has hosted events for severWellsville Chamber continued on PAGE 6
Photo by Kathryn Ross Ed Kent and Shane Allen (seated) received the top honors at the annual Wellsville Area Chamber of Commerce Awards dinner Saturday night. Other honorees included (standing, from left) Dr. Zahi Kassas, Carol Mariotti and Betsy Kent, Tim Colligan, Chris Perkins, Ella Green, Larry Peacock and Kris Green.
Tracing the Senecas’ Forbidden Trail in the Twin Tiers Editor’s note: The following article was shared by Catherine Schuyler Chapter, NSDAR, as part of an ongoing series of articles commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. BY JOAN DRAKE SINCLAIR
In Addison a bronze plaque marker, placed by the NYS Society Daughters of American Colonists, makes reference to the Forbidden Trail in the Southern Tier.
“If you study a modern contour or geodesic survey map and plot upon it the known trail of the early inhabitants, you will notice immediately that the highways of today essentially follow the routes of the ancient trails. River valleys were natural travel avenues. If streams were deep enough, rafting or canoeing was easiest,
but if not, the bottom lands still afforded easier movement than hilly terrain. Here, too, were found plentiful food and water, the necessities for life and travel.” From: Hilbert, The Crooked Lake Review, July 1991 This article explores one of the early, and many say the most intriguing, trailways that followed the east-west rivers and tributaries and their offshoots, through the region we now identify as the Southern Tier of Upstate New York and the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. If one were to weave back and
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state. Called the “Iron Path” by the early Jesuit missionaries, it was the Great Central Trail of the Iroquois. This trail connected the nations of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy. The Great Central Trail was the primary east-west span of travel. However, there were two north-south routes using the Genesee Valley. One primary trail led south along the Genesee River to Caneadea, then southwest to the Allegheny River and westward to Ohio by way of Cuba, Olean and beyond.
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