Another Stonemetz Generation to Serve East Hampton Village

Shauna Stonemetz, the granddaughter of Glen Stonemetz Jr., who served as the Village of East Hampton’s chief of police from 1977 to 2000, was honored in a ceremony to mark her hiring as a public safety dispatcher at the village board’s meeting on Friday. Family members, including her grandmother, her parents, and her aunt, were present.

“I can’t compliment her enough,” Chief Gerard Larsen of the village’s Police Department said of Ms. Stonemetz, who has worked as a traffic control officer since 2009. He described her as “a leader, a kind person, and one of the best employees we’ve ever had.”

Glen Stonemetz, Mr. Larsen said, “was a great chief, mentor, and my personal friend. I owe my entire career to him.” Mr. Stonemetz died in 2005.

“Glen and I forged a personal bond when he was a patrolman and I was a sergeant,” Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. said. “He went from patrolman to chief overnight, a very meteoric rise. . . . All through that transition, we continued to be friends and lifelong partners as it related to enforcement. It’s an honor for me to be part of this ceremony.”

Mr. Larsen added that he had worked with Ms. Stonemetz’s mother, Colleen, who served the department in various capacities in the 1980s, and that her grandmother Audrey also worked for the department as a crossing guard and matron. Ms. Stonemetz’s father, Bruce, has served the Amagansett Fire Department for 37 years, and her aunt, Diane McNally, is clerk of the East Hampton Town Trustees.

“No wonder we have such a wonderful new employee,” Mr. Larsen said.

Later in the meeting, the board formally voted to employ Ms. Stonemetz as a full-time public safety dispatcher with a start date of Oct. 1 and a starting base salary of $44,379.