The appointments, made hours after the new administration was sworn into office earlier this month, include a $ 100,000 job as research assistant to the board of trustees, a $ 78,000 contract to a Farmingdale public relations firm and a $ 65,000 job as secretary to
the village volunteer fire department.
The
village has a single church whose bells peal out at noon each day, a small
volunteer fire department, and a cemetery with a special section devoted to German soldiers who died nearby in the closing months of World War II.