The Southampton Town Republican candidates have established a campaign headquarters in the King Kullen shopping center on Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays and will meet and greet community members there on Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The Southampton Town Republican Women and executive board of the Southampton Town Republican Committee are jointly hosting the event, which will include coffee and light refreshments.
Incumbent Supervisor Linda Kabot and Councilman Chris Nuzzi and Town Board candidate Jim Malone will be on hand to greet voters along with Town Clerk Sundy Schermeyer and Town Justice Barbara Wilson. Highway Superintendent candidate John McGann will also be present as well as incumbent Town Trustees Jon Semlear, Ed Warner Jr, Fred Havemeyer, Eric Shultz, and Brian Tymann.
Community members may come at any time during the event to speak with elected officials and candidates and to pick up campaign literature.
For more information, call (631) 287-7950.
Southampton Town highway superintendent candidate Alex Gregor of Hampton Bays is pushing a plan to lease sections of one of the town’s landfill to a contractor to install solar panels.
Mr. Gregor, who is running on the Democrat ticket, said the plan would require the contractor to sell electricity generated by the solar panels to the Long Island Power Authority and then share the profits with the town.
Revenue from the sales, Mr. Gregor said, could help pay for expensive waste management operations, such as the daily trucking of contaminated landfill runoff to treatment sites on the North Shore, which costs the town about $1 million a year.
The landfill Mr. Gregor is proposing the panels for is the North Sea facility on Majors Path.
Republican highway superintendent candidate John McGann said he likes Mr. Gregor’s idea, but said it’s not a new one. The Town Board is already fielding requests for proposals from contractors seeking to install either solar or wind turbines at the landfill. “I do agree that it’s a good concept,” Mr. McGann said. “I just don’t agree that it is an original concept.”
Councilman Christopher Nuzzi, a Republican and sponsor of the initiative, said the town will review proposals in the coming weeks.
Mr. Gregor estimated that at least 10 acres of the landfill’s 30-acre footprint can be used for solar panels, which would not disturb the landfill’s watertight, protective seal.
“It seems like a good use for some of the town’s covered landfills,” Mr. Gregor said. “It doesn’t spoil anyone’s vista, and it’s in a secure site. No one is really going to see it.”
The Hampton Bays Civic Association will host its annual Meet the Candidates night on Friday, October 16, at 7 p.m. at the Hampton Bays Senior Center on Ponquogue Avenue in Hampton Bays.
Residents of the community are invited to attend the meeting and speak with the candidates. Refreshments will be served.
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