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50-425: The league was founded by Andrew Musto in 2006 with the purpose of creating a league that is a low-cost alternative to higher cost leagues. As of 2017 the league fee per team is $ 300. League fees are used for playoff ice time, referee fees, scorekeepers, and awards. At the end of the 2016–17 season, Musto stepped down as commissioner and appointed Jon Marchese the new commissioner. The UNYCHL opened its 11th season with

100-475: A Central Dining Hall, a 150-bed townhouse complex, an Engineering Technology Building, and a Student Leadership Center. Six fraternities and six sororities are recognized by the college and Greek Senate: Pi Rho Zeta (ΠΡΖ) Fraternity Mu Theta (ΜΘ) fraternity, Psi Sigma Psi (ΨΣΨ) sorority, Alpha Beta Chi (ABX) sorority, Pi Nu Epsilon (ΠΝΕ) sorority, Delta Chi Omega (ΔΧΩ) sorority, Alpha Sigma (ΑΣ) sorority, and Zeta Psi Omega (ΖΨΩ) sorority are all fully recognized by

150-496: A city. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 36.7 square miles (95.0 km ), of which 36.6 square miles (94.9 km ) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km ), or 0.10%, is water. The Genesee River flows northward through the town. New York State Route 417 intersects New York State Route 19 at Wellsville village, and NY 19 intersects New York State Route 248 by

200-515: A cluster of companies in the energy sector. Its close proximity to prominent engineering schools at Alfred University , Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Rochester has resulted in a high concentration of highly skilled and specialized engineers. Ljungstrom , a division of The Arvos Group, (formerly Alstom Power Air Preheater) designs and manufactures in Wellsville products for

250-436: A cluster of multinational companies in the energy sector. It also has a cluster of ceramic artists and artisans fed by its proximity to Alfred University's ceramics school. The area that is now Wellsville was part of Scio through the first half of the 19th century. It was incorporated as Wellsville and set apart from Scio in 1857. For a brief time during the early 1870s, Wellsville changed its name to "Genesee". On April 4, 1871,

300-483: A failed love affair and whose tragic demise was the inspiration for Hanford Lennox Gordon's famous poem "Pauline." The Pink House enjoys another literary association, as the setting for the 1987 Emmy-Award-winning film The Birthmark , based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story of the same name. Exterior and interior scenes were filmed at the Pink House. The Pink House is a private residence still owned by descendants of

350-517: A farm, and some livestock, Alfred State has expanded to include 13 residence halls, state-of-the-art smart classrooms, a motorsports facility, an organic farm, the Orvis Activities Center, as well as a second campus of Applied Technology located in Wellsville, New York . Pioneer Stadium accommodates soccer and football, and is surrounded by an eight-lane running track. Facilities also include

400-584: A member of the Southern Tier Library System, is the largest public library in Allegany County and the cultural center of Wellsville. Built in 1910 in the Georgian style, the brick building enjoys much natural light because of the large Palladian windows and still retains much of its original custom furnishings such as cork flooring, original carved oak wood ornamentation, and child-sized furniture in

450-524: A million dollars in club and administrative funds through the Student Activity Fee. Student Senate supports, facilitates, and leads its clubs and organizations through an annual Leadership Retreat, weekly leadership seminars, and special projects. In addition to funding, Student Senate allows students of both Wellsville and Alfred main campus to participate in collaborative decision-making processes. The Student Senate General Assembly has voting rights on

500-418: A new and more efficient means to get their product to market. Prior to this, the logs had been floated on the rivers and canals. Logging moved on to more densely forested areas in the latter part of the 19th century but the cleared ground quickly produced excellent grazing for a tremendous dairy industry which followed. Wellsville was named after a man named Gardiner Wells, who was, according to local history,

550-541: A new swimming pool. In 2010, the district upgraded the elementary school and athletic fields, complete with a multi-purpose, all-weather stadium. The Wellsville High School's newspaper, The Owl , was founded in 1907 and is one of the longest-running student newspapers in New York State. Wellsville was also home to the Immaculate Conception School (ICS) of Allegany County, a Diocesan regional school, which

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600-572: A population of 7,099. Wellsville is centrally located in the south half of the county, 8 miles (13 km) north of the Pennsylvania border. Wellsville is also the name of the main village within this town. The village and the town have two separate, paid governments. Alfred State College maintains a branch campus in the town, with the main campus in Alfred 7 miles (11 km) east. Originally an encampment for native peoples, Wellsville's settlement

650-551: A separate league championship. Tier 2: 10 Tier 2: Alfred State (7-0-0-1) Tier 2: Alfred State Tier 2: 10 Tier 2: ACPHS (8-0-0) Tier 2: Niagara County Community College The 2015 UNYCHL Playoffs were played February 20–22 at the home rink of each #1 and #2 seeds and 27th and 28th at Holiday Twin Rinks in Cheektowaga, New York. Alfred State College Alfred State College ( ASC , SUNY Alfred , SUNY Alfred State )

700-609: Is a public college in Alfred, New York , United States. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. The college offers bachelor's and associate degree programs. It is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and is a member of the Rochester Area Colleges consortium. Both Alfred University and Alfred State have their roots in an early teaching college called

750-961: Is a member of the Division III level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), primarily competing in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) for most of its sponsored sports since the 2019–20 academic year. The Pioneers also compete as a member of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference , the Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (ECFC) for football, the Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) for men's and women's indoor and outdoor track & field, and

800-400: Is an Italianate-Revival mansion built in 1869 and located on the corner of West State Street and South Brooklyn Avenue. It is renowned for its architecture as well as for the ghost story attached to it. Many stories purport that the house is haunted by the ghost of a girl who drowned in the front fountain as well as her aunt, Mary Francis Farnum, who committed suicide in a nearby mill race after

850-504: Is divided into the following schools: In 1972 two Alfred University students started a charity festival titled " Hot Dog Day ." This festival was to be a charity fundraiser for the area. Now held in the third weekend of April, Hot Dog Day is a yearly celebration coordinated through both Alfred University and Alfred State. Beginning in the fall of 2008, Alfred State began hosting its annual Homecoming and Family Weekend Celebration. The Student Senate of Alfred State administers over half

900-421: Is world leader in the development and production of state-of-the-art, water-based release agents including flex and rigid mandrel and mold releases agents and hose, tube, or pan cure release agents. Wellsville Central School District serves pre-K-12 on two campuses. In 2004, the district completed a multimillion-dollar building project creating a new middle school, additions to the high and elementary schools, and

950-733: The Empire Collegiate Wrestling Conference (ECWC) for wrestling. They also previously competed in the short-lived American Collegiate Athletic Association (ACAA) from 2017–18 to 2018–19; and as an NCAA D-III Independent from 2013–14 to 2016–17. Alfred State competes in 17 intercollegiate varsity sports. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, soccer, swimming & diving, track & field (indoor and outdoor) and wrestling; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, track & field (indoor and outdoor) and volleyball. Throughout its athletics history,

1000-630: The Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles popular in the late 19th and early 20th century. It is located across the street from the US Post Office-Wellsville . It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. In March 2006, a referendum to dissolve the village was defeated by the residents. At present, local officials are attempting to obtain a charter for the community to reorganize both municipalities into one entity,

1050-709: The Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression in the art deco style, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The Wellsville Erie Depot is a historic train station located at Wellsville in Allegany County, New York . It was constructed in 1911, for the Erie Railroad . It is a one-story, 132-foot (40 m) by 33-foot (10 m) structure displaying elements of

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1100-449: The 2013–14 school year. Alfred State became a full member of Division III of the NCAA in the summer of 2018. 42°15′15.71″N 77°47′18.38″W  /  42.2543639°N 77.7884389°W  / 42.2543639; -77.7884389 Wellsville, New York Wellsville is a town and largest community in Allegany County, New York , United States. As of the 2020 census, the town had

1150-556: The 2019–20 season, the league left the ACHA and has joined the Collegiate Hockey Federation. The league also organizes a second-tier league called UNYCHL Tier 2, which launched with the 2018–19 season. This tier is for new programs in an effort to "provide local area teams an avenue to play competitive hockey while minimizing budgetary impacts and reducing travel costs." UNYCHL T2 holds ten teams which compete among one another for

1200-601: The Alfred Select School. The school was visionary in its equal opportunity policy. In 1908 President Boothe C. Davis of Alfred University persuaded the New York State legislature to locate the New York State School of Agriculture at the Alfred University Campus; the resulting allocation of $ 75,000 for three buildings, a farm, livestock, and machinery would set plans for the school in motion. In 1937,

1250-766: The Big Tree Treaty of 1797). He began running a gristmill , a sawmill , and a tannery on a stream now known as Dykes Creek, by 1803. Dyke is buried in Elm Valley, just east of town. His tombstone has the official memorial placed there by the Catherine Schuyler Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution . Wellsville's first industry was tanning, utilizing the bark of the hemlock tree for its tannins. Three large tanneries operated in Wellsville during

1300-523: The Genesee River from the east. The water from Hurricane Agnes in 1972 exceeded the capacity and banks of Dyke Creek, producing a rapid and huge pool of water at the center of the village. The extent of the damaged area continued downstream through Scio and Amity until the valley widened to accept the large flow of water in the lesser populated area. Erosion of topsoil during this flood eliminated many small farms. The US Post Office-Wellsville , built by

1350-470: The New York State Legislature officially changed Wellsville's name to Genesee. After much political wrangling, by a special act of the legislature, the name Wellsville was again designated as the official name of the town, June 8, 1873. The village of Wellsville was first incorporated in 1857 and then again in 1873. Wellsville is the junction of many foothill streams including Dyke Creek feeding

1400-521: The School of Engineering Technologies was founded by the original three academic faculty members; Al French, Bill Harrison and Herm Sickler. Four years later, the school was given junior college status and renamed the New York State Agricultural and Technical College at Alfred . By 1948, the enrollment grew to such large numbers that the state government decided to allow it room to expand, moving

1450-548: The Wellsville area as "the Pigeon Woods" and held annual festivals and encampments there to take advantage of the passenger pigeon (see memoirs of Captain Horatio Jones ). At the time, passenger pigeons filled the skies by the millions, and the tribes and bands came to the Wellsville area from all over western New York and northern Pennsylvania to Gistaquat to harvest the pigeons by the thousands. European settlers moved into

1500-514: The area before 1800. Nathaniel Dyke, a native of Connecticut, and a captain in the Revolutionary War , serving under both General George Washington and General Warren of Bunker Hill fame, was the first of these in Allegany County. He married a Native American woman (Esther) and moved his family to the Wellsville area by 1795, while it was still owned by the Seneca Nation (two years before

1550-581: The automotive, aerospace, medical, data storage, lighting, power supply industries. Northern Lights Candle Co. , a manufacturer, retailer and wholesale distributor of candles and novelties, is headquartered in Wellsville. Otis Eastern Services , founded in 1936, serves the oil and gas industries, constructing, upgrading and maintaining oil and gas distribution systems such as pipelines in West Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Release Coatings of NY , headquartered in Wellsville,

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1600-431: The biggest expansion in its history. The league grew to 23 teams with the additions of SUNY Albany, Gannon University, Mercyhurst University, Clarkson University, Niagara County Community College, Binghamton University and Syracuse University as well as the return of Alfred State College, Hilbert College and SUNY Canton. In addition the league was organized into three divisions based on geography to cut down travel. Before

1650-680: The board of trustees of the college, known as the College Council, through its College Council Representative. The Student Senate General Assembly also has a voice on the Faculty Senate with a non-voting member but has voting members on many committees including the Academic Affairs Committee. They also have three members on the Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services board of directors. Founded with three buildings,

1700-639: The children's wing. In addition to several large reading rooms, the facility includes a large exhibition room, two terraces, local history room, meeting rooms, kitchen, and the 301-person Nancy Howe Auditorium which is often used for concerts, plays, movies, and meetings. In 2017 the library was awarded the EBSCO Excellence in Rural Library Service Award by the Public Library Association and EBSCO Information Services. The Pink House

1750-629: The college was a longtime member of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), primarily competing in the Western New York Athletic Conference (WNYAC) until after the 2012–13 school year. The NCAA Division III Management Council announced in April 2013 that Alfred State has been accepted as provisional members. The announcement moved Alfred State into NCAA Division III competition, effective in

1800-521: The college. Greek Senate has developed an autonomous Greek Judicial Board which allows for the full self-governance of the Alfred Greek System, adjudicating cases of organizational misconduct. The Brent Llewellyn Art Gallery at SUNY Alfred State in Alfred, New York , founded in 2010, is located in the campus Engineering Technology Building. Alfred State athletic teams are the Pioneers. The college

1850-440: The discovery of "Secondary Recovery", led by Bradley Producing, based in Wellsville. The method uses water, so abundant in Wellsville, to force the oil from the "oil sands". The Sinclair Refinery was built in Wellsville at the beginning of the 20th century, not closing down until 1957 after two major fires and falling oil prices. Since World War II, Wellsville's economy has been dominated by skilled engineering and manufacturing with

1900-549: The downtown provides classes in ceramics and cooking. The center also includes the Coffee House where live music shows are staged almost every weekend. The Great Wellsville Trout Derby is hosted by the Wellsville Lions Club during the last full weekend in April. The Nickelodeon television series The Adventures of Pete & Pete , which ran from 1993 to 1996, is set in a fictionalized version of Wellsville. Though

1950-407: The early 19th century. Next came the lumbermen and the railroad. The New York and Erie Railroad came through what would become Wellsville (then the outskirts of Scio ) in 1851 as the quickest way west from New York City , crossing New York state. This proved that Nathaniel Dyke's choice of location was the quickest, easiest and most practical way across Allegany County. The trains gave the lumbermen

2000-406: The event showcases fall foliage and highlights the area's oil industry. The 2008 event included a 5K and 10K trail run and a more challenging 14-mile trail run. Participants could also choose to enter one of the walking races of 2, 6, 9 or 14 miles. The Wellsville Creative Arts Center opened on September 9, 2006, in the old Carter Hardware building downtown. Entrepreneur Andy Glanzman's addition to

2050-573: The one person who didn't show up for the meeting when the residents were naming the town. Wells was the major landowner of the real estate pieces, now the downtown Main Street section of Wellsville. The first oil boom came later in Wellsville's history, several decades after the founding of the town and village when oil was discovered in Wellsville in 1879 by O.P. Taylor in his famous "Triangle No. 1" well in Petrolia , west of Wellsville. A second boom occurred with

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2100-632: The original owners. The Great Wellsville Balloon Rally is the largest annual event in the Wellsville area, attracting hot air balloonists and tourists from many parts of the country who participate in the event on the third full weekend of every July. The rally was started by Ray Stevens in 1975. The event has received coverage by the national media, including the Today show and is beloved by balloonists and spectators alike. The Ridgewalk & Run trail race event has been staged every year since 1993. Held in October,

2150-435: The population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 3,192 households, out of which 26.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.9% were married couples living together, 9.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.7% were non-families. 33.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size

2200-471: The school across Main Street from Alfred University, where it remains today. In addition to a new campus would come greater autonomy, meaning that Alfred would now have two state-funded schools. Alfred State offers 80 majors in the arts, applied technology, architecture and management and engineering technology. Teaching staff are in a 17:1 ratio to students, and are generally well-educated in their field, while maintaining ties to their profession. The college

2250-584: The south town line in Stannards. As of the census of 2000, there were 7,678 people, 3,192 households, and 1,924 families residing in the town. The population density was 209.4 inhabitants per square mile (80.8/km ). There were 3,606 housing units at an average density of 98.4 per square mile (38.0/km ). The racial makeup of the town was 96.65% White , 0.53% Black or African American , 0.26% Native American , 1.24% Asian , 0.00% Pacific Islander , 0.21% from other races , and 1.11% from two or more races. 0.72% of

2300-571: The thermal power plant market, namely air preheaters and gas-gas heaters for thermal power generation facilities. As such, they are an innovator in the development of "clean coal technology." Current Controls , founded in 1982, operates as a general contractor that specializes in bridge production. Operates primarily in New York State and Pennsylvania with another division located in Atlanta, GA. The LC Whitford Company , founded in 1916, designs and manufactures electronic transformers, inductors and serves

2350-445: The town was $ 30,098, and the median income for a family was $ 39,705. Males had a median income of $ 36,302 versus $ 23,387 for females. The per capita income for the town was $ 18,744. 16.0% of the population and 10.6% of families were below the poverty line . 17.9% of those under the age of 18 and 9.2% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line. Wellsville's economy is dominated by skilled engineering and manufacturing with

2400-407: Was 2.29 and the average family size was 2.92. In the town, the population was spread out, with 22.9% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 25.2% from 25 to 44, 23.7% from 45 to 64, and 20.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.5 males. The median income for a household in

2450-553: Was driven, first, by the tanning and lumber industries and, later, the discovery of oil and natural gas. Wellsville was the location of encampments for thousands of years, including the Lamoka and Brewerton cultures. The latest native people, the Seneca , named Wellsville Gistaguat , according to a map produced in 1771 by Guy Johnson , as the official map of New York state at the time, for then-Governor William Tryon . The Seneca referred to

2500-599: Was ranked No. 5 of 194 middle schools in Western New York by the Buffalo-based Business First. The school has since closed due to low enrollment. Wellsville is home to Alfred State College's School of Applied Technology which includes the Culinary Arts School, automotive department, building trades, and a Sustainable Advanced Manufacturing Center (SAMC) opened in 2016. The David A. Howe Library,

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