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Lackluster Town Board race Because of uninspired campaigns, it may be easy to forget that there's a Town Board race

In a squeaker Town Board race that took weeks to resolve, Warren Wiegand lost his seat while Mike Reynolds kept his, despite losing the Gardiner Democratic Party endorsement this time around.

Because of uninspired campaigns, it may be easy to forget that there's a Town Board race going on between incumbent Leeanne Thornton (I), endorsed by Democrats, and challenger Allyson Barbaria (R), endorsed by Republicans.

East Ramapo activist gears up for Town Board race added by dskriloff on August 10, 2013 View all posts by dskriloff →

The incumbents in the town board race are Peter J. Friedel of West Shokan and Donnie VanBuren of Boiceville, who last ran four years ago as the town was still reeling from major flood damage from tropical storms Irene and Lee, with preparedness and town response the key issues at the time.

In the Chester town board race, incumbents Stephen Durkish and Michael Packer defeated Lauren Pereau, an independent candidate.

The largely amicable town board race will feature former town building inspector Paul Andreassen, running on the Democratic, Conservative and Independence party lines; longtime Saugerties police officer Donald Tucker, running on the Republican and Conservative lines; Vincent Altieri, who serves as the Captain of the Sheriff's Police Services Department and holds Republican, Independence and Reform party lines; and Democrat John Schoonmaker, who majored in Biology at Siena College and currently works as a Gnotobiologist at Taconic Biosciences, is running on the Democratic line and hopes to bring the town's youth into the fold of local government.

Mr. Van Scoyoc got more than 60 percent of the vote, according to the board of elections website, and Ms. Burke - Gonzalez was the top vote - getter in the town board race, with a nearly 15 - point lead over her nearest Republican challenger, Paul Giardina, a nuclear engineer who retired last year from a post at the Environmental Protection Agency.

In Hempstead, Democratic town board incumbent Dorothy Goosby and Republican incumbents Anthony D'Esposito and Dennis Dunne Sr. held comfortable leads in the three town board races.

Republican caucus attendees cross-endorsed two Democrats in Town Board races and a Democratic legislative candidate won an unprecedented Republican primary as a write - in.

Voters in the Towns of Truxton Taylor, LaPeer, Cincinnatus Virgil, Willet, and Cuyler also have contested Town Board Races.

In some cases — with Susan Zimet in New Paltz and with Paul Hansut and Jon Decker in Highland — the changes and redistricting have caused local politicians to jump ship from Kingston to run in town board races.

Not exact matches

Democrats did win the Mayor's race in Tonawanda, gained control of the Hamburg Town Board, and held onto Town Boards in Tonawanda and Cheektowaga.

Democrats in East Hampton Town swept the races for town supervisor and town board, with Peter Van Scoyoc winning a decisive victory over his opponent, Manny Vilar, in the race for superviTown swept the races for town supervisor and town board, with Peter Van Scoyoc winning a decisive victory over his opponent, Manny Vilar, in the race for supervitown supervisor and town board, with Peter Van Scoyoc winning a decisive victory over his opponent, Manny Vilar, in the race for supervitown board, with Peter Van Scoyoc winning a decisive victory over his opponent, Manny Vilar, in the race for supervisor.

In addition to the supervisor's race, Southampton voters are contemplating other contests, with two seats open on the town board and two incumbents hoping to hang on to their positions.

The race to fill two upcoming vacancies on the Woodstock Town Board gained a fourth entrant this week when Howard

Last Wednesday night, several of the groups, including the Real Rent Reform Campaign — made up of organized tenants, labor organizations and community groups that advocate for «progressive» pro-tenant legislation — held a well - attended town hall meeting in Brooklyn (they estimated the crowd at about 200 attendees) while the board of the influential Tenants PAC met separately and decided on endorsements for state legislative races.

A November election could put GOP favorite Chris Talbot — who's up for re-election to the Southold Town Board this year — on the sidelines in the Assembly race, lest he risk giving up his town sTown Board this year — on the sidelines in the Assembly race, lest he risk giving up his town stown seat.

He also ran races for Islip Town board and district court judge and won election to the Brentwood school board, where he served for three years.

Democrats in East Hampton Town swept the races for town supervisor and town board, with Peter Van Scoyoc winning a decisive victory over his opponent, Manny Vilar, in the race for supervisor, and his running mates, incumbent Councilwoman Kathee Burke - Gonzalez and Jeff Bragman, an attorney, handily winning their bids for two seats on the town boTown swept the races for town supervisor and town board, with Peter Van Scoyoc winning a decisive victory over his opponent, Manny Vilar, in the race for supervisor, and his running mates, incumbent Councilwoman Kathee Burke - Gonzalez and Jeff Bragman, an attorney, handily winning their bids for two seats on the town botown supervisor and town board, with Peter Van Scoyoc winning a decisive victory over his opponent, Manny Vilar, in the race for supervisor, and his running mates, incumbent Councilwoman Kathee Burke - Gonzalez and Jeff Bragman, an attorney, handily winning their bids for two seats on the town botown board, with Peter Van Scoyoc winning a decisive victory over his opponent, Manny Vilar, in the race for supervisor, and his running mates, incumbent Councilwoman Kathee Burke - Gonzalez and Jeff Bragman, an attorney, handily winning their bids for two seats on the town botown board.

A spurned candidate, cross-endorsements, appointment speculation... We're five weeks away from the election and things are finally coming into focus in the races for town supervisor and town board.

Besides the local races for town supervisor, town board, highway superintendent and town justice, the citizens of Gardiner have the

Deciding on which two candidates to support in this year's race for Southold Town Board of Trustees is no easy feat.

Electoral history: Lost race for Islip Town board post in 2003.

The scuttlebutt is that if Altieri loses his bid for town board and Costello wins the supervisor's race, he'll nominate Altieri as his replacement for the then open board seat during January's organizational meeting.

The slates are set for this November's election, which features lively races for supervisor, town board and two of the three County Legislature seats.

The four - way race for two seats on the Gardiner Town Board was incredibly close, with too narrow of an unofficial margin to call as of press time, particularly with the absentee and affidavits yet to be counted.

The two Republican incumbent Southold Town Board members won re-election Tuesday night, as the GOP swept the three open trustees positions, town highway superintendent, town justice of the peace and the assessors raTown Board members won re-election Tuesday night, as the GOP swept the three open trustees positions, town highway superintendent, town justice of the peace and the assessors ratown highway superintendent, town justice of the peace and the assessors ratown justice of the peace and the assessors races.

The race for the legislative seat was roiled last week when the Ulster Town Board voted to honor Freedom of Information Act requests filed over the summer by the Kingston Times and local talk - radio host Richard Cahill Jr. seeking access to dashcam video of a May 24 incident involving Berky and Town of Ulster Police Officer Gary Short.

Highland's supervisor race this year will pit two Lloyd Town Board colleagues against each other.

While distasteful in any race, it's an ethical travesty when you and your town board peers benefit from the shenanigans.

Anna Throne - Holst received more votes in five of the 1st District's seven towns against Dave Calone during Tuesday's Democratic primary race, according to results released Wednesday by the Suffolk County Board of Elections.

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

In the race to replace Tedisco in the 112th Assembly District, former Ballston Town Board member Mary Beth Walsh defeated small business owner Jim Fischer.

In the four - way race for two Thurman Town Board seats, political newcomers John Youngblood and Joan Harris came out on top in the tight race, according to the initial election - night tally.

«I've worked on races from the presidency on down to the town board,» Fitzpatrick said.

Democrats surprised many by sweeping the Amherst races for supervisor and two Town Board seats, resulting in what will be an all - Democratic board on Jan. 1 for the first time in at least a half cenBoard seats, resulting in what will be an all - Democratic board on Jan. 1 for the first time in at least a half cenboard on Jan. 1 for the first time in at least a half century.

The tight races came with the vote counts for three of the four candidates for two seats on the Town Board being too tight to name a victor.

In the town of Thurman, Runyon's action expands the race for two town board seats.

Here in Cortland County, several seats on the Cortland County Legislature will be decided, along with a County Court Judge, Cortlandville Town Court judge and Town Board members, along with many additional races across the county.

Ethics Advisory Board Chairman Brian Glick sent Rybak a letter last week before the decision noting Rybak's «level of advocacy» on the matter, and questioned if Rybak was reacting to Schopf's race against him for town justice in 2015.

In the Town of Queensbury, Rachel Seeber was top vote - getter in a six - way race to serve in the four at - large seats on the Warren County Board of Supervisors.

New campaign filings also show that in the Republican primary for Smithtown Supervisor, Patrick Vecchio, 87, who is battling for his political life after 40 years in office, has spent $ 56,504 in his race against GOP designee Edward Wehrheim, a town board member, who has spent $ 41,884.

Noting that Democratic Party nominees had swept the town board elections, Democratic Committee vice-chair Barbara Sides, who had witnessed the ballot count on Friday, added, «The fact that the supervisor race came down to 20 votes is indicative of the opposition to the incumbent's attitude that all land development is good for Gardiner and that the same entrenched interests should be appointed and reappointed to our boards and commissions.»

In East Hampton and Southampton there are competitive races for town board and supervisor, and several important county positions are in play as well.

Retired Det. Sgt. Robert Doyle is eyeing the race for Smithtown Town board.

CHESTERTOWN The Chester Town Board has decided not to take action regarding limiting noise and the use of so - called racing boats on Loon Lake.

The incorrect ballots were given to voters when polls opened at 6 a.m. until Deputy Clerk Lynn Sehwerert noticed the error when casting her votes at around 7:30 a.m. Board of Elections commissioners Vic Work and Tom Turco raced to Woodstock to instruct poll workers to explain the error to voters and the commissioners posted signs informing voters they could cast two ballots for town bBoard of Elections commissioners Vic Work and Tom Turco raced to Woodstock to instruct poll workers to explain the error to voters and the commissioners posted signs informing voters they could cast two ballots for town boardboard.

Besides the local races for town supervisor, town board, highway superintendent and town justice, the citizens of Gardiner have the opportunity on Election Day to choose between two seasoned contenders as their District 16 representative in the Ulster County Legislature.

In the Lewisboro race for Town Board, the Lewisboro Democrats and Republicans cross-nominated current incumbents in their primaries.