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Bayville meets its candidates for mayor ation. Taylor, who owned an advertising agency before he retired, Candidates for Bayville explained that family circummayor and village trustee stances had forced him to step shared their priorities for the aside: His wife had been hospivillage at a Meet the Candidates talized with complications from night, a week after the village surgery, and was being transwas the focus of ferred to another national media covfacility in Manhaterage when it was tan that evening for announced that no more intensive care. one was running for “I love my work mayor. That led to — I love my wife the ad hoc event on more,” Taylor said. Tuesday, at which a “She needs me in a h a n d f u l o f re s i way that the village dents, responding to can’t compete, so the news, antonight I’m withnounced their willdrawing my name ingness to serve as from consideration write-in candidates as a write-in candifor mayor. date.” The event, hostTaylor endorsed ed by the Bayville cur rent Mayor Chamber of ComSteve Minicozzi as merce at the Cresyet another write-in cent Beach Club, StEVE MINIcozzI candidate, although g ave residents a Minicozzi was not mayor, chance to hear from among the declared Bayville the unique slate of candidates. candidates ahead of Three trustee next Tuesday’s election. seats are on the ballot this year The forum opened with John in addition to the mayoralty. Taylor, a former village trustee Four candidates are running who had declared his candida- for trustee, including two writecy for mayor less than two days in candidates. They and the earlier, announcing that he was remaining mayoral candidates, withdrawing from considerContinued on page 7
By WIll SHEElINE
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the Baymen’s Memorial Monument was unveiled June 3 at theodore Roosevelt Memorial park.
A baymen now stands guard over Oyster Bay Harbor By JUlIA cAPItEllI jcapitelli@liherald.com
Baymen, elected officials, law enforcement officers and Town of Oyster Bay residents gathered last week for the unveiling of a statue dedicated to the town’s shellfishermen at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park. The Baymen’s Heritage Association first presented the design for a sculpture to the town board in 2022. The bronze statue depicts a baymen pulling shellfish aboard his boat, pole pointed toward the sky. Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joe Saladino was joined by Assemblyman Jake Blumencranz, Nassau County Legislators Delia
DeRiggi-Whitton and Samantha Goetz, and Glen Cove Mayor Pamela Panzenbeck for the June 3 dedication. Baymen, named for the bays brimming with shellfish that attracted settlers to the region beginning in the 17th century, have played a large role in Oyster Bay’s history. In recent decades, overfishing, which has resulted in a precipitous decline in the population of oysters and clams in local waters, in combination with the difficulty of the job, has had a similar effect on the ranks of baymen. John Kennedy, of Bayville, vice president of the Baymen’s Heritage Association, who Continued on page 6
f I am written in, yes, I will accept the position for a short period of time . . . so that candidates can file petitions and campaign properly.