Long Island Village Elections

Patti Ann McDonald was elected Mayor of the village of Malverne on Long Island yesterday. She is wife of Steven McDonald, the former New York City Police Officer who was shot and paralyzed in 1986 in Central Park and subsequently became a non-violence activist. She defeated incumbent mayor Anthony Panzarella by a wide margin in Tuesday's local elections.

It's the third Tuesday in March in an odd year...so that means it's village election time on Long Island. This year's headline is McDonald's victory. Not much happened elsewhere, but nevertheless, for those who are interested, here are some of the results;

-David Nyce was elected Mayor of Greenport on the east end
-Bellerose mayor Donna Sherrer was reelected
-In Stewart Manor, voters approved funding to renovate the town's community pool, the oldest on Long Island
-Attorney Brian Curran will be the new Mayor of Lynbrook
-Edward Cahill will continue to be Mayor of Valley Stream
-Mineola Mayor Jack Martins was reelected, despite public opposition to his proposal to form a village police department.
-Stay-at-home mom Barbara Donno defeated Thomas O'Malley to become Mayor of Plandome Manor.
-Incumbent Nancy Zolezzi won a tight three-way race for Mayor of East Williston.
-Incumbent John Durkin was reelected Mayor of Roslyn
-In the village of Old Field, the tiny village of less than 1,000 on the north shore of Suffolk County near Port Jefferson, a political earthquake occured when the village's two trustees were ousted by political novices.

The full story and results here