Two Want One Village Board Seat
In the June 20 East Hampton Village election, two candidates are running for a single seat on the village board.
Philip O’Connell, who was appointed to the board after Elbert Edwards’s death in October, will try to keep the seat for the one remaining year in the term. Arthur Graham, a member of the village’s planning board and the East Hampton Historical Society and the secretary of the Thomas Moran Trust, is challenging him.
Mr. Graham had previously expressed interest in running for mayor. Prior to Mr. Edwards’s death, he had also considered a run to succeed him once his term expired.
Mr. O’Connell, a former chairman of the planning board, is an attorney and a senior managing director the Corcoran Group Real Estate. He is on the village’s planning and zoning committee and is the village’s liaison to the Town of East Hampton’s community preservation fund advisory board.
The election will be held from noon to 9 p.m. at the Emergency Services Building at 1 Cedar Street.