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Longtime Quogue School Board Member Won't Seek Reelection; Newcomer Tosses Hat In Ring

Publication: The Southampton Press
By Frank S. Costanza   May 4, 2012 3:27 PM
May 8, 2012 6:15 PM
To say that there will be a changing of the guard on the Quogue Board of Education this summer would be an understatement.

Walter Stockton, who has served on the five-member board for the past 18 years, including the past five as president, has decided not to seek a seventh term. In turn, Dr. Anael Alston, the principal of the Robert M. Finley Middle School in Glen Cove, and an eight-year resident of Quogue, is seeking Mr. Stockton’s seat on Tuesday, May 15. Dr. Alston is not being challenged for the three-year term.

The chief executive officer of Independent Group Home Living in Manorville, a not-for-profit agency that assists the developmentally disabled, Mr. Stockton said the time has come for him “to turn the reins over to someone else.”

“We were always able... more

It is shocking to see this person (Anael) getting any credit or consideration for any position around children. He is a bully, bullies parents, and got fired from job as Middle School asst principal in EH because he manhandled a student. He should hang his head in shame, not run for any official positions. The techniques he took to his new school (very good for the students there) were formed by the administration here in East Hampton. Yet, he takes credit for this and other ideas as if they were ...more
By Caring Mom (6), Wainscott on Jun 25, 12 5:29 PM
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