2 vie to be town’s new highway superintendent
ROCHESTER, N.Y. >> The town’s deputy highway superintendent and a former Town Board member are running to succeed outgoing Rochester Highway Superintendent Anthony Spano.
On the ballot will be Jeffrey Frey, of 72 Markle Road, Kerhonkson, and Richard Gray, of 1160 Queens Highway, Kerhonkson.
Jeffrey Frey
Frey, 48, will be on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines on the ballot. He has lived in the town for 45 years and has one child.
“The biggest priority is to continue the maintenance of the roads,” he said. “I don’t really have any specific roads in mind.”
Frey is a member of the Kingston Baseball Umpires Association.
Richard Gray
Gray, 67, will be on the Republican, Conservative, and Rochester Citizens for Change lines on the ballot. He is a lifelong resident of the town and served on the town board for about 10 years in the 1980s.
He is the operator of a small sawmill, a retired state corrections officer and has one child.
“There have been some tactics used on dirt roads that has been a total waste of taxpayers’ money by putting bare oil and oil and chip down on unprepared dirt roads,” Gray said. “Those roads, right now, to travel on them is terrible. They need to be graded up and redone correctly. They were vote-getting tactics ... two years ago.”
Gray served in the U.S. Army from 1972 to 1974 and is a member of the Hudson Valley Draft Horse Association and the Rondout Valley Rod and Gun Club.