Three mayor seats, 13 trustee seats and one village justice seat in municipalities across the Manhasset area will be up for grabs on Election Day, Tuesday, March 16.
With one exception in Flower Hill, incumbents are seeking re-election in every seat.
MUNSEY PARK
Anthony Sabino is running against one-term Mayor Lawrence Ceriello for the top seat in the village, village Clerk Tara Gibbons told Blank Slate Media via email.
Sabino, an attorney and law professor at St. John’s University who co-founded the Sabino and Sabino practice in Mineola, was elected to a two-year term as a trustee in 2018 on the Residents for a Better Munsey Park ticket after serving on the village’s Building Advisory Committee, but lost a re-election bid in 2020 when his seat and that of outgoing Trustee Jennifer Noone were taken by Regina Im and Gregory LiCalzi.
Ceriello, an attorney and partner in the real estate group of the Manhattan-based firm Morrison and Foerster, is also a former trustee, having won one term in 2017 before succeeding Frank DeMento as the village’s mayor in an uncontested race 2019.
Trustee Joseph Williams, who was elected to Ceriello’s vacant seat in 2019, is seeking re-election, as is two-term trustee and Deputy Mayor Antonio D’Angelo. Both trustees are uncontested in their races.
Residents can vote at Village Hall, located at 1777 Northern Blvd., from noon to 9 p.m.
PLANDOME HEIGHTS
Trustees Daniel Cataldo, Gus Panopolus and Norman Taylor are up for two-year terms, and village Justice Cye E. Ross is up for election to a four-year term. All four incumbents are uncontested for their seats.
Residents can vote at Village Hall, located at 37 Orchard St., from noon to 9 p.m.
PLANDOME
Mayor Thomas Minutillo is up for re-election to a second two-year term, having won via a write-in campaign in 2019, as is Deputy Mayor John Richardson to a two-year term and Trustee John Kurkjian to a one-year term. All three incumbents are uncontested for their seats.
Residents can vote at Village Hall, located at 65 South Drive, from noon to 9 p.m.
PLANDOME MANOR
Mayor Barbara Donno and Trustees Matthew Clinton and James Baydar are up for re-election to two-year terms. All three incumbents are running uncontested.
Residents can vote at Village Hall, located at 55 Manhasset Ave., from noon to 9 p.m.
FLOWER HILL
Trustees Frank Genese, seeking a third term, and Mary Jo Collins, seeking a first full term after serving the rest of Mayor Brian Herrington’s term as a trustee, will run for election to two-year seats. Trustee Claire Dorfman, who was appointed last November after the late Mayor Robert McNamara was elected a trustee, is seeking a one-year term. All three, representing the Flower Hill Party, are running unopposed.
Notably absent from the ballot this year is Trustee Jay Beber. A resident of the village’s Roslyn area, he has served on the board since 2014 and chose to retire after serving three terms.
Financial professional Max Frankel has filed a petition to run for Beber’s free seat under the Flower Hill Party. According to his bio on the Flower Hill Party’s website, Frankel grew up in the village’s Roslyn area and moved back in 2012.
Beber endorsed Frankel in a statement to Blank Slate Media. “I couldn’t be happier with the nomination of Max Frankel,” Beber said. “He will bring his energy and unique perspective to what is a very well run and organized village.”
Village residents can vote at Village Hall at 1 Bonnie Heights Road in Manhasset from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., or pick up absentee ballots from Village Hall and drop them off by Monday.
