Mayor Elena Villafane, Trustees Mark Sobel and James Versocki appointed to Village of Sea Cliff board, alongside dozens of ...

Sea Cliff Mayor Elena Villafane handily retained her seat in the village's election after the founder of Pirate's Booty allegedly staged an attempted coup of the local government just days before ...

Robert Ehrlich, 66, is using a little-known New York law to declare himself mayor of a village within the village of Sea Cliff, Long Island. James Messerschmidt “I have so many great ideas.

A snack food magnate declared himself mayor of the Village of Sea Cliff, on Long Island. The voters said otherwise. By John Leland The little village of Sea Cliff, on Long Island’s north shore ...

Time to walk the plank! The founder of popular Pirate’s Booty cheese puff line got shellacked in Tuesday’s Sea Cliff mayoral election, losing to incumbent Elena Villafane 1,064 votes to just 62 — ...

Mayor Villafane told News 12 Long Island the while she “welcome[s] the dialogue,” she’s not sure that “doing it in this sort of unorthodox fashion” helps the residents of Sea Cliff. RealTime ...

Most Long Island villages did not have contested elections. In Sea Cliff, Mayor Elena Villafane easily fended off a challenge from write-in candidate Robert Ehrlich, who had claimed last week ...

The founder of Pirate's Booty, the puffed corn and rice snack food, has launched a "mutiny" in the Long Island community of Sea Cliff, New York. He falsely asserted that he was the mayor, demanded an ...

Fourth graders at Sea Cliff School completed the American Revolution unit as part of the social studies curriculum with a ...

Officials say the founder of the Pirate’s Booty snack line baselessly declared himself mayor of the small Long Island village of Sea Cliff. The village said Robert Ehrlich and a small entourage ...

At Sea Cliff School, third graders had an interdisciplinary culmination combining lessons in art, music, history and global issues as they ended their extensive study of Brazil. Families were ...