Nolan Terrance To Be Among Athletes & Teams Honored on New Signs in Massena

MASSENA -- State champion wrestler Nolan Terrance will be among top varsity athletes and teams honored on signs that the Massena Central school board wants installed on three roadways leading into town.

The board voted to move forward with the plan at their Aug. 16 meeting.

The signs will pay tribute to boys and girls hockey, baseball and cross country teams, as well as high jump, discus and wrestling athletes.

They will be placed near the high school football practice field on state Route 37, near Jefferson Elementary on state Route 37 and on Andrews Street coming into the village.

The district won't have to contribute anything toward the signs. Leftover funds from a commemoration to former athletic director and educator Martha Slack will pick up the tab, current Athletic Director Gavin Regan said.

"Martha is proposing we erect these signs so the community and others coming in the community can see them," Regan told the board.

Superintendent Pat Brady said the signs will have the block M logo.

"Martha, her position, the group's position is the M is more representative of all of the years of Massena sports," Brady said. "The M is a bit of a neutral factor that's been around pretty much since the beginning of the district."

"She felt pretty passionately about that. We're putting in the new logo this year ... she mentioned the M was in the 1940s. Massena's first logo was the M," Regan said.

They have not yet been made, but officials said they hope to have them in place by the first home football game of the season on Aug. 31.

The signs will only have championship teams going back to 1981, because that's when official state championships began, the A.D. said.

"In the boy's hockey state championships ... before (1981) we have championships that were sportswriters' championships not recognized by New York state," according to Regan.