The controversy comes just a week
after a town supervisor in Western NY came under fire for suggesting Obama deserves a «bullet to the brain» in a Facebook post.
Not exact matches
Democrat Bill Perkins left the Senate this year for a city Council seat; Republican Assemblyman Joseph Saladino resigned
after he was appointed Oyster Bay
town supervisor.
Hamburg Republicans have endorsed attorney Dennis Gaughan, a Democrat, for
town supervisor after incumbent Steven Walters said he will not run for a fourth term.
Before that, he was deputy parks commissioner in the
Town of Oyster Bay
after first working as an assistant to then -
Town of Oyster Bay
supervisor John Venditto.
Several readers have asked about the deal Leonard Genova, Oyster Bay's former deputy
supervisor and
town attorney, got for testifying as a prosecution witness
after receiving full immunity from prosecution.
MILTON - The
supervisor of Milton is suing his
town for the suffering he faced
after the Times Union published an article about a settlement agreement between the
town and an employee who claims she was harassed by him.
After a protracted executive session that delayed the start of the December 8 Gardiner
Town Board meeting by more than half an hour, deputy
supervisor Warren Wiegand announced, «The
Town Board accepted the Gardiner Ethics Board's report and agreed to appoint a three - person management team to manage the Transfer Station between now and December 31....
ATHOL — The
town of Thurman's Local government functions came to a standstill Jan. 3
after a slim majority of the newly - aligned
town board refused to pass routine municipal resolutions that allow government to operate, and questioned the basic authority of the
supervisor to run a meeting and serve as the
town's chief executive.
On a personal level, Leifeld reiterated his decision, announced recently, that he would not be running for reelection in November
after 24 years as
town supervisor and 11 years before that as a
town board member.
Soon
after Richard Schaffer became chairman of Suffolk County's Democratic Party in 2000, he decided to vacate his post as Babylon
Town supervisor to focus on his new duties.
Misdemeanor charges filed against the wife of Southold
Town Supervisor Scott Russell were dismissed Tuesday
after the
supervisor told a Riverhead judge he no longer wished to pursue the charges.
In 2002, four years
after Venditto became
town supervisor, Genova was appointed deputy
supervisor.
After a brief opening speech by Mr. Malman, the group's co-president, the 2011 candidates for
town supervisor,
town board,
town highway superintendent, and
town trustee introduced themselves to the party's attendees.
PERU One month
after former councilman Brandy McDonald took office as
town supervisor, his seat on the board remains vacant.
Mr. Goodman, who is 34 and runs a corporate advisory firm focused on aerospace and defense industries, takes the helm of the Republican Committee
after a disappointing campaign in which its candidates for
supervisor and
town board were defeated by wide margins and just two of its nine candidates for
town trustee prevailed in the November election.
After denying he was a candidate for
supervisor,
town councilman Fred Costello was urged by enough Democrats to finally say he would run.
After months of hemming, hawing, vetting and maneuvering, the Conservative caucus gave its support to James Bruno for
town supervisor and Donald Tucker and Paul Andreassen for the two vacant
town board seats.
Past Republican
town supervisors, including Mondello and D'Amato, met with GOP members before and
after board meetings to hash out disagreements — and arguments sometimes grew loud and heated.
After some discussion of how the agenda could be kept fluid to accommodate last - minute developments, the
supervisor ultimately acquiesced, saying that henceforth he would have at least a tentative version posted on the
town website by the Friday before — a promise that had already come true by presstime.
Shortly
after Berry's presentation to the
town board on Aug. 31, the five - member panel had voted 2 - 2 in a straw vote on the purchase, with
town supervisor Dennis Dickinson withholding his deciding vote pending further review.
«Twenty years ago if we were at a meeting talking about hunting on
town lands, [the community would] be coming at us with pitchforks,» the
supervisor said
after the 2 1/2 hour forum concluded.
And the reason why it is the flashpoint; the county executive and
town supervisors not having a meeting of the minds
after supposedly that was so.
Mr. King responded that, while the
town supervisor could consider waiving the requirements due to the disaster declaration
after the storm, the trustees could not make that determination on their own.
After hundreds complaints from other residents, not just in Irvington but in other Greenburgh and Westchester communities,
town supervisor Paul Feiner was able to speak on the phone to Washington DC based USPS Chief Operating Officer Dave Williams.
Town of Niagara
supervisor Steven Richards pleaded not guilty Friday
after being arraigned on a 28 count indictment in Niagara County Court.
Olive had big elections in 2011, when it seemed for a moment that a revived local Republican Party might take over
town government, and with one gain ended up with two of five
town board seats, as well as in 2013, when long term clerk Sylvia Rozzelle, a lifelong Democrat, rose to become
supervisor after the retirement of Berndt Leifeld, and the GOP took a majority of
town board seats for the first time in decades.
Halfmoon
town supervisor «Mindy» Warmouth faces up to seven years in prison
after hearing charges Thursday in connection with allegedly stealing thousands from her campaign committee.
The former
town supervisor of Ramapo in New York's Rockland County has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison
after a jury had found him guilty in a corruption case involving the financing of a local ballpark.
After marshaling statements of support from the Legislature's Republican majority leader, Melissa Bonacic, two Republican
town supervisors and DeStefano himself, he issued a press release lamenting that Turnbull had «gone negative» and claiming Turbull «has put forth no original ideas during his tenure as a Legislator that have helped the taxpayers of Orange County.»
John Perry, his
town's former assessor and a longtime fixture for his coaching of local kids» sports teams, will be the new
town supervisor in Hurley
after the counting of absentee ballots on Monday, November 20 gave him 13 more votes than former Woodstock
supervisor and now West Hurley resident Tracy Kellogg, who was making her third run for the position on Democratic, Green and Working Family party lines.
During his tenure in the Suffolk Legislature, to which he was elected
after two terms as East Hampton
Town supervisor, he switched to the Independence Party.
With 99 absentee ballots sitting in the hopper on the day
after the 2017 election, and more potentially to come in before they get opened beginning Wednesday, November 15, only two votes separated Hurley
town supervisor candidates Republican / Conservative / Independence party choice John Perry (1104) and Democrat / Green / Working Families hopeful Tracy Kellogg (1102).
Michael Shultis, a former
town supervisor running on Democratic and Independence lines, will be the
town's new highway superintendent and Democrat Judy Mahon will serve another term as
town clerk
after running unopposed.
The
supervisor of Milton is suing his
town for $ 340,000 for the suffering he says he faced
after the Times Union published an article about a settlement agreement between the
town and an employee who claims she was harassed by him.
Bellone, the Babylon
town supervisor, will replace outgoing County Executive Steve Levy, the Democrat - turned - Republican who launched an aborted campaign for governor in 2010, but dropped his re-election bid
after running afoul of campaign - finance laws.
JOHNSBURG A new
Town of Johnsburg
supervisor will be seated
after the first of the year
after voters choose between two candidates running in the Nov. 7 election.
A week
after severe spending cuts by the
Town Board yielded a preliminary 2012 municipal budget that would raise taxes by about 4 percent for the general fund, Woodstock
supervisor Jeff Moran acknowledged that he had miscalculated a mandatory expenditure and, as a result, the projected tax increase was actually more than 7 percent.
The situation, everyone agrees, has been exacerbated by the looming resignation of Democratic
town supervisor Bert Leifeld, first elected to his position in 1988
after over a dozen years as a councilman before that.
The next year, Mr. Fischer tried for the Democratic Riverhead
town supervisor nomination, losing in a primary to Mr. Cardinale, who was attempting to get back in office
after a 2009 loss to current
Supervisor Sean Walter.
Town supervisor Sylvia Rozzelle, who roared into office two years ago after decades as the town clerk, asked this week, when first asked about her plans, whether we could «just give us a little break here?&ra
Town supervisor Sylvia Rozzelle, who roared into office two years ago
after decades as the
town clerk, asked this week, when first asked about her plans, whether we could «just give us a little break here?&ra
town clerk, asked this week, when first asked about her plans, whether we could «just give us a little break here?»
Martin Ballowe, the
supervisor, said last month that the
town discovered that there was no building permit for the work
after the assessment had been reduced by $ 91,000 for three years because of the poor condition of the property when Mule and Ballowe bought it.
Republican incumbent Carl Belfiglio will exit stage right to run for
town supervisor as one - term
supervisor as former clerk Diane McCord departs for a well - earned retirement
after a single term as
supervisor.
Christine Benedict poses for a photo
after announcing her candidacy for Colonie
town supervisor Sunday, June 14, 2015, in Newtonville, N.Y. (Phoebe Sheehan / Special to the Times Union)
Back in December 2015,
after Fred Costello won another four - year term on the
town board back in December 2015, I asked him if he was interested in running for
supervisor two years from then.
Recall (briefly) how county legislator Rich Parete wrested both major - party nominations from
town supervisor Mike Warren, only to learn well
after the fact that they had caucused in the wrong place.
After the Shelter Island
town supervisor, Jim Dougherty, congratulated Clark on her achievements, she said jokingly, «I thank you for making the 10th - place finish in the medal round sound good, but it was still last.»
After months of speculation and negotiation, strategy sessions and late night phone calls, Corning Inc. decided in the spring of 2013 to expand its factory in Erwin, where McCarthy serves as
town supervisor.
After serving as presiding
supervisor of Long Island's
Town of Hempstead for 13 years, Murray was tapped for district... read more
Democratic Committee Chairman Jerome D. Schad, the attorney who filed the petition to knock Jaeger off the ballot on behalf of a
town resident Patricia A. LaVell, argued that the term limits barred Jaeger from running for
supervisor unless she resigned from her current office or waited until
after her term as clerk expired in 2019.
The
town meeting was the first in more than two decades held under a new Town Supervisor — Craig Leggett, who was elected in November and took office two weeks ago after the retirement of long - tenured supervisor Fred Mon
town meeting was the first in more than two decades held under a new
Town Supervisor — Craig Leggett, who was elected in November and took office two weeks ago after the retirement of long - tenured supervisor Fred Mon
Town Supervisor — Craig Leggett, who was elected in November and took office two weeks ago
after the retirement of long - tenured
supervisor Fred Monroe.