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My name is Ken Lewis and I am running for Highway Superintendent in November. I was raised on Shelter Island. I graduated from the Shelter Island School in 1989. I attended Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania where I earned a BA in English/Communications in 1993. I am currently a heavy equipment operator for the Shelter Island Highway Department where I have worked for the past ten years. My volunteer work and service to the community have ranged from coaching Little League and CYO Basketball, to serving as a volunteer for East End Hospice, Eastern Long Island Hospital and the Shelter Island 5k. I have also served on the Board of Trustees of the Mashomack Preserve, The Shelter Island Board of Education, and The Board of Directors of the Island Gift of Life Foundation. I am currently am a member of The Shelter Island Lions Club. My wife, Robin, is an elementary science teacher in East Hampton, and our son, Kal, is entering his senior year at the University of Iowa. I look forward to continuing to serve this community that means so much to me and my family.

I am a proud member of a Blue Line Family with high-level corporate experience residing in St. James with my husband and two children.

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This Town Board has been in place for over five years, having inherited from Supervisor Vecchio a $17 million surplus, virtually zero debt, and a government that worked. Since that time? Having gone through tens of millions of dollars of new debt and stimulus funds, Town Hall is "truly concerned" about next year's budget, and is paving fewer roads than before. All the while, this Town Board has been on a hiring spree of friends and family, lavished themselves with eye-popping raises, and raised your taxes.

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I'm running for office because it's time we restored fiscal conservatism and sanity to Smithtown. No more rolling out the red carpet for developers who ruin our traffic and pollute our water, and no more stoking the flames of the so-called culture wars to distract from doing the people's work. Smithtown needs new leadership, and it's time to shake up this Town Board.

“As a candidate for Town Justice, I offer the unique combination of being an East Hampton native along with many years of experience in the New York City criminal justice system. It’s time for me to bring my experience home to the East End and use it to serve all members of the East Hampton community in a just and fair way.”

East Hampton resident whose family has lived here for ten generations
Partner at Whalen Filer 2019 – present
General Counsel OLA of Eastern Long Island 2020 – 2022
Adjunct Professor New York Law School 2016 – 2018
New York County District Attorney’s Office 2002 – 2018

Spending time as a child in the salt marshes behind Moriches Inlet hooked me for life. In high school at Westhampton Beach, I won the Marine biology award and later graduated NYU in 2003 with a BA in Biology, spending my summers lifeguarding at various public and private beaches on the south fork. During this time, I also worked with The Cornell Cooperative Marine Program in Southold, working for Chris Pickerell who was using innovative ways to attempt to restore eelgrass to its historical range in the Peconic Bay.

Joseph has long served the residents of Southampton as a member of its Planning Commission, Historic Museum Committee for Restoration and Revitalization and most recently as a Southampton Village Trustee.
For his many years of service to the Town of Southampton, Joseph was awarded The Southampton Village Intrepid Citizen Award. As a Southampton Trustee, Joseph will promote environmentally friendly zoning and fight for long term solutions that will protect our water and environment for years to come.

It isn’t every day that a person with demonstrated community spirit and proven ability decides to stand for election.

Margaret Friedlander has been a resident of Hampton Bays since 1992 and is a proponent of nature-based toxic free land care practices and native planting to preserve biodiversity and as a form of environmental stewardship to help keep our drinking water, ground water, and waterways clean.

Fact-based research powers her passion for environmental stewardship and an authentic appreciation of our marine environment. She is deeply committed to collaboratively identifying and implementing existing and innovative solutions to combat the many environmental challenges facing residents of Southampton.

As a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, Rainbow has long served as an
advocate for responsible stewardship of our land and water here on the East
End. As owner of Shinnecock Hemp Growers and HMP LLC, Rainbow will
bring to the position of Town Trustee her experience in promoting land restoration
and restorative growing practices to protect our coastal land and water. She will also present residents with a valuable opportunity to represent people of Southampton whose voices have historically been underrepresented.

Departmental Address:
Department of Medical Education, Southampton Annex, 330 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, New York 11968

Education and Postgraduate training:
Cornell University, Master of Health Administration 2021

St. Barnabas Hospital, Neuromuscular Skeletal Medicine Residency 07/2007-06/2008

Long Beach Medical Center, Family Medicine Residency 07/2001-06/2004

New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, 1996-2001

University of Massachusetts, cum laude 1989-1993