2 Trustees Re-Elected in Huntington Bay

Going two for two, trustees John McCuscker and Dennis Gai were re-elected to the Huntington Bay Board of Trustees Tuesday. As in 2009, each man ran unopposed.

With approximately 1,400 registered voters in the village, turnout was light in 2011. Each candidate received 55 votes. 

This will be the third term for McCusker, a chief financial officer for a Port Washington company and a Huntington Bay resident for three decades.

Gai, who was elected to his seventh term Tuesday, has lived in the village for 35 years and worked on Long Island in college and hospital executive management.

 holds village board  elections each June. The board consists of a mayor and four trustees who serve staggered terms. Current board members Jay Meyer, Don Rave and Mayor Herb Morrow won unopposed re-election bids last year. 

Like most who run for office in Huntington Bay in recent years, Morrow has rarely faced opposition. He was elected to the village board in 1993 and won in 1994 to become mayor. In nearly two decades in office, Morrow has had to defeat only two opponents — in 1996 and 2004. 

Meyer was a trustee from 1995-96 before moving out of state for two years. He was elected to the board again in 2002 and has served ever since. Rave was first elected in 2004.

Village Justice Stephen Kunken, who has served since 1992, was elected to a four-year term last June.