Our Town - What's New

This page has been reserved for announcements of local events, activities, and items that residents would like to see posted here. These items can also include area births, deaths, family reunions, "thank you" messages and nearly any information that you would like to have posted. Please check back here often as this page will be changing whenever posting requests come in.
Anyone wishing to place an entry here, please send an e-mail message to webmasterbristol@frontier.com and I will see that it gets posted.

Bristol Fire Department Clambake Fundraiser, September 17, 2011

September 23, 2011

Information about Giant Hogweed

July 10, 2011

Giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) is a Federally listed noxious weed. Its sap, in combination with moisture and sunlight, can cause severe skin and eye irritation, painful blistering, permanent scarring and blindness. Contact between the skin and the sap of this plant occurs either through brushing against the bristles on the stem or breaking the stem or leaves.

Click here to read more information about the plant.

Bristol's Newest Resident

March 24, 2011

Here are photos of a surprise in the Bristol Town Sheds Storage building. This pretty gray fox had two kits. After her discovery she moved, but was a great show for the Town. She has been seen in the area lately. Pictures were taken on March 15, 2011.

Thank You Harrison for All That You Did

By Bob Green, Town of Bristol Supervisor

November 3, 2010

Harrison Marble served our little town for 10 years as its sole assessor. He was well known for a quiet spirit, an infectious smile, and a master of integrity. He was a stalwart NY Yankees fan and would at a moment's notice tell me how " Them Yanks are doing." He enjoyed his work in the church, and was active in the Evergreen Cemetery Association. He often volunteered working with the Scouts helping an aspiring young person achieve the ultimate goal of Eagle Scout - that spoke well of Harrison.

Being a town assessor is by any standard an incredible task. It requires knowledge of the law, continual updating, and meticulous record keeping. But most importantly, it mandates a unique quality of understanding human nature and all the idiosyncrasies that we all display from time to time. Harrison was second to none in dealing with the public.

Harrison quietly struggled for a number of years with a long term illness of which he valiantly fought but succumbed to in October. Harrison served his family and community with dignity and grace. We will miss him. Thank-you Harrison for all that you did.

More Searching for Artifacts at Burning Springs

October 28, 2010

There will be more searching for artifacts at Burning Springs next year. The Morgan Chapter will be sponsoring this and interested parties can contact the Richmond Historical Society or the Bristol Historical Society for more information.

Vincent Hill Road Improvements

October 7, 2010

Highway Superintendent Steve Kepner reported to the town board meeting on October 4^th that road crews had hauled approximately 9,000 tons of gravel to the Vincent Hill Road during the latter part of September. Other town highway departments and Ontario County trucks assisted the town in the upgrade project. This was done under the inter-agency agreement.

The course gravel was graded, rolled and another 40 truck loads of #1 crusher run was added to cap the course gravel. Additionally, work on the ditches was done.

Along with the Vincent Hill Road project, crews were kept busy with tree removal on the Jenks Road and Dugway Road as well as assisting the Town of Richmond and East Bloomfield with road projects.

"We sincerely appreciate the help of the adjoining towns and the county. It would have taken much longer for us to have completed our work (Vincent Hill Road). Often we do not have the larger equipment or a necessary piece of equipment to move projects along. We sincerely enjoy this type of cooperation."

Our Councilman Tom Stevens Received the Citizen of the Year Award from the Bloomfield Rotary

August 22, 2010

On August 17, 2010 at Elton Park in Bloomfield our Councilman, Tom Stevens received the Bill Zechmann Citizen of the Year Award from the Bloomfield Rotary.

Tom has been very active in community service for Bloomfield and Bristol and the American Cancer Society and other organizations.

4th of July Parade in Richmond, NY

July 14, 2010

The picture shows Al Favro's (Town Council) Model T Ford used in the 4th of July parade in Richmond, NY. Al is driving and Wayne Houseman (Town Council) is in the rear seat with Town Supervisor Bob Green in the front.

Our Town Clerk,  Sharon Miller,  Elected Town Clerk of the Year !

June 22, 2010

The Town of Bristol is privileged to have Sharon Miller serving as Town Clerk for these past years. She has worked with five Supervisors starting with Robert Green Sr., the father of our present Supervisor Robert Green Jr.

Starting in 1978 she was appointed as general secretary doing the Town's bookkeeping. When the former Town Clerk, Marie Rogers, retired Sharon was chosen and elected now being re-elected for more than 28 years as Town Clerk.

This year the New York State Town Clerks Association District #7 Directors chose Sharon as Town Clerk of the year. She has been a member of the Town Clerk's Association all those years and served as Treasurer. She was conferred the Title of Registered Municipal Clerk, having completed the requirements prescribed by the Association for certification. It was then Resolved that she be recognized for her outstanding and heartfelt commitment to the Town of Bristol and the great State of New York.

Her sense of community service is most outstanding. She has also been very active in the Bristol Volunteer Fire Department as an EMT and other duties and offices. She has volunteered in other community affairs such as Bristol Fund Days, Bristol's Bicentennial, and many parades to name a few.

A surprise local reception was held for her at Schooner's on June 11 since she could not be at the State Conference Meeting when the award was announced.

The first picture shows Sharon with Mary Anne Trickey, Town Clerk from Hopewell. The second picture is of Sharon with various clerks from the the Ontario, Livingston and Wayne county region, who were at her reception.

Farewell from Terry Docteur, Town Webmaster of Eight Years

May 30, 2010

All of the town e-mail addresses have been shifted to Frontier addresses, and so the e-mail addresses on this site will be incorrect until we have the chance to update them all. Since the addresses are scattered throughout the pages of this site, it will take quite a bit of time to get these all updated. Please be patient as this effort is being complicated by a transitioning of webmaster duties. Which brings up the subject of welcoming our new Town Webmaster aboard. Dana Vavrova is in the process of taking over the administration of the Town web-site. Over the years, the site has grown in size and complexity and undoubtedly, there will be some temporary disruptions and delays until the transition is complete. However, with a bit of patience, we will get through it.

I want to say that it has been a pleasure for me to volunteer my service as your Town Webmaster over the past eight-plus years, and I hope you all enjoyed what was put together. I do feel that I am leaving it in capable hands, and that the site will continue to grow as a useful and enjoyable tool of town communication.

For Sale by the Bristol Historical Society

Color print of LaSalle at the the Burning Springs in Bristol for $35.00 (unmatted and unframed).

The original oil painting was commissioned by Alan and Lois Jones, who own the Burning Springs property. Alan and Lois have generously donated the prints for the benefit of the Bristol Historical Society.

The print represents the beginning of LaSalles's quest to find the passage to China. He eventually explored and claimed for the King of France the entire Mississippi Basin, which in later years became the Louisiana Purchase.

The plan was to arrange with the Seneca Indians to supply guides for his expedition west. They began in July 1669 with a 35 day canoe trip from Montreal to Irondequoit Bay. LaSalle and several men then walked past Mendon Ponds, and continuing a long walk, arrived at the great Seneca village located at the site of Rochester Junction Station. Here they waited for seven or eight days for an indian slave to return, who would potentially become the guide.

The Jesuit Priest Galinee accompanied LaSalle and acted as his recorder. Following is a direct quotation of his report:

"We passed the time in this way for seven or eight days, waiting until some slave should return from the trading to be given to us. During the interval I went with M. de la Salle under the guidance of two indians about four leagues south of the village. We were taken to see a very extraordinary spring. It forms a small brook as it issues from a rather high rock. The water is very clear but has a bad odor, like that of Paris mud, when the mud at the bottom of the water is stirred with the foot. He put a torch in it and immediately the water took fire as brandy does, and does not go out until rain comes.

The flame is amongst the indians a sign of abundance, or of scarcity when it has the opposite qualities. There is no appearance of sulphur or sale petre, or any other combustible matter. The water has no taste whatever, and I cannot say or think anything better than that this water passes through some aluminous earth from which it derives its combustible quality."

New Fire Department Website Announced

The Bristol Volunteer Fire Department now has a new website. The address is: http://www.bristolvfd.com.
Check out this great site to learn everything you ever wanted to know about our fire department and their latest activities and events.

Town Kiosks

The town has put up kiosks for pamphlets and brochures. One is in front of the Trading Post and one at the Wizard of Clay.