Archive of Superintendent's Profile Articles
Superintendent of Public Works Tony Toscano and the Village of Muttontown
By Maura Bohart - October 2010
Dealing with the phone company can be challenging, even when it’s just an error on the phone bill. Dealing with the phone company when there’s a telephone pole that needs to be moved off of a busy highway is a very daunting task. ... more on Superintendent of Public Works Tony Toscano and the Village of Muttontown
Profile Staff - October 2010
I think I’ve used this cliché before (so forgive the repetition if I have), but we’ve all heard there’s no such thing as a free lunch.. Well, that’s not always true. At the N.Y.S. Highway & Public Works Expo, which is just around the corner on Oct. ... more on Oct 2010
Superintendent of Highways Wesley Moore and the Town of Durham
By Laurie Mercer - September 2010
Apples falling not too far from the tree, like father like son, chips off the old block and other homilies express an enduring bond and like-mindedness that exists between certain men and their sons. Certainly in Durham, Wesley Moore, superintendent of highways, reminds a lot of folks of his dad, Ivan, who had 40 years in the same highway department in this town of 2,600 people. ... more on Superintendent of Highways Wesley Moore and the Town of Durham
Profile Staff - September 2010
A few changes are in store for the highway department crews and DPWs that make their annual pilgrimage to Syracuse for the N.Y.S. Highway & Public Works Expo Oct. 20. First, bring your appetite. Whereas lunch was customarily served in the Heroes & Legends Café in the Americraft Center of Progress Building, this year lunch will be served on the actual floor of the exhibit hall. ... more on Sep 2010
Superintendent of Highways Kathy Kinsella and the Town of Rhinebeck
Mary Yamin-Garone - August 2010
In case you didn’t know it, Kathy Kinsella is unique. As highway superintendent of the town of Rhinebeck she is a member of a select group of individuals. Kathy is one of only six female supers out of the more than 1,000 in New York State. ... more on Superintendent of Highways Kathy Kinsella and the Town of Rhinebeck
Craig Mongeau - August 2010
This is the issue of firsts — Two good, one not so good. Let’s get the not-so-good one out first. In my column last month, I wrote that CHIPs funding was set to $402.8 million. Well, thanks to Michael Thompson, communications director of the New York State Association of Town Superintendents of Highways, I was informed that this total included the appropriation for CHIPS and Marchiselli program. ... more on Aug 2010
Craig Mongeau - July 2010
“I think people want certainty in their elected officials” and “ It’s time to pass the budget … it is dysfunction on steroids” were just two comments from members of the Legislature after it averted an unprecedented shutdown of state government June 14 when they voted for yet another emergency spending bill. ... more on July 2010
Superintendent of Highways Rodney Gleason and the Town of Allegany
Laurie Mercer - July 2010
There is an oil shortage in this country, and that fact is perfectly obvious in the oil patch in Western New York and Pennsylvania. “In one recent year there were 275 brand new oil digs planted in part of the Allegany River Valley called Chipmunk Valley,” said Rodney Gleason, highway superintendent of the town of Allegany. ... more on Superintendent of Highways Rodney Gleason and the Town of Allegany
Craig Mongeau - June 2010
When I wrote this column back in late April for the May edition of Superintendent’s Profile, I really thought Albany was going to resolve the budget impasse by the time you read it. I couldn’t imagine we’d be nearly in June and the state would still be run on emergency spending plans. ... more on June 2010
Superintendent of Highways James Fugel and the Town of Olive
Mary Yamin-Garone - June 2010
Jim Fugel, highway superintendent of the town of Olive, has been having a love affair with cars for most of his life. What started when he was a kid working in his family’s automotive shop branched out to racing dirt cars and ultimately landed him the highway department’s top spot. ... more on Superintendent of Highways James Fugel and the Town of Olive
Craig Mongeau - May 2010
As of press time for this month’s Superintendent’s Profile, the 2010-2011 New York State budget remained in limbo. The legislative stalemate, caused by a $9.2 billion budget deficit (state law mandates a balanced budget), has already cost hundreds, potentially even thousands, of construction-related jobs due to work being halted on many projects across the state. ... more on May 2010
Superintendent of Highways Mike Smart and the Village of Attica
Laurie Mercer - May 2010
It is almost laughable what Mike Smart inherited when he first assumed the position of superintendent for the village of Attica in 1990. “There was no office really. The water lines were mapped on cardboard. ... more on Superintendent of Highways Mike Smart and the Village of Attica
Craig Mongeau - April 2010
Some of the worst memories of my childhood have long since been glossed over. Fights, awkward moments, bad grades, bad teachers, skinned knees, lost friends, deaths of friends, traumatic sport losses, broken legs — all these things now feel like they only happened in a movie I saw; it’s as if I received a mental shot of novocaine, dulling the burns from painful moments to such an extent that I sometimes wonder if they ever happened. ... more on April 2010
Superintendent of Highways Jack Wickham Jr. and the Town of Ovid
Laurie Mercer - April 2010
Because a municipal clerk, back in the early 1800s, was given the privilege of naming Ovid, the town became an avatar of sorts for a romantic poet from ancient Greece — high on a rounded hill above the shores of two Finger Lakes, Cayuga and Seneca. ... more on Superintendent of Highways Jack Wickham Jr. and the Town of Ovid
Craig Mongeau - March 2010
It’s March and we’re only a few short days away from the 2010 Grassroots Campaign for Local Roads and Bridges. The N.Y.S. County Highway Superintendents Association Inc. and N.Y.S. Association of Town Superintendents of Highways Inc. ... more on March 2010
Superintendent of Highways Richard Walters and the Town of Onondaga
Laurie Mercer - March 2010
There’s nothing more alluring to heavy equipment people than new equipment. So it comes as no surprise that Richard Walters, superintendent of the town of Onondaga highway department can be found surrounded by a brand new Cyncon-delivered, Petersen Industries, $125,000 brush truck (their second one) in front of the town highway garage on West Seneca Turnpike, near the top of Onondaga Hill. ... more on Superintendent of Highways Richard Walters and the Town of Onondaga
Craig Mongeau - January 2010
Another year over, and another year older — maybe even a year wiser, but we’ll see how 2010 goes. Making New Year’s resolutions is just another way to make wishes, things that we’d like to see ourselves doing, stop doing or other people doing or not doing. ... more on Jan 2010
Superintendent of Highways Gary Blackburn and the Town of Ridgeway
Laurie Mercer - January 2010
Ask just about any highway superintendent what they like best about their job and what they like least, and the answer to both usually is, “the people.” After 24 years in the highway barn in Ridgeway, Superintendent Gary Blackburn believes that the best — his career highlight — is yet to come. ... more on Superintendent of Highways Gary Blackburn and the Town of Ridgeway
Craig Mongeau - December 2009
I must be getting older because I find myself increasingly wondering what young people are thinking. There’s a little bit of the usual older person’s mystification over their wardrobe choices and music tastes, but mostly what bothers me is their alarming absence of a work ethic. ... more on Dec 2009
Superintendent of Highways Gary Cole and the Town of Cato
Maura Bohart - December 2009
Author David Bly once said that striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest when you haven’t planted. In the highway department at Cato, there is no shortage of hard work and success. ... more on Superintendent of Highways Gary Cole and the Town of Cato
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