Fadden Fitch, Recor also reelected

By Russ Tarby

Contributing Writer

On June 18, nearly 100 village of Liverpool residents turned out to vote in an uncontested election. The voters returned Mayor Gary White to office along with two incumbent trustees.

White, who won his sixth two-year term as mayor, drew 96 votes. Deputy Mayor Christina Fadden Fitch notched 90 votes while Trustee Jason Recor had 85. Fadden Fitch will serve her third term as trustee, while Recor won his second two-year term.

Rounding out the five-member village board are Matt Devendorf and Michael LaMontagne. All five board members are Republicans.

White, a retired deputy police chief from the Syracuse Police Department, served six terms as a village trustee before running for mayor in 2009 prevailing over independent candidate Tom Stack by a vote of 291 to 154. In five subsequent elections White ran unopposed.

While White will now serve at least 12 years at the village helm, two previous mayors have served longer. Ray Grandy was the village’s longest-serving mayor whose eight terms ran from 1951 to 1967, and before him Mayor Michael Heid served for seven terms.

Fadden Fitch, employed by Brown & Sanford Consulting LLC for Honeywell International, joined the village board in 2015 and is now the deputy mayor. Recor is an account manager for Time Warner Cable who was first elected as a trustee in 2017.

On April 27, those three Republican incumbents were nominated to run again this year by the village GOP Caucus attended by 27 registered Republicans from the village, according to caucus Chairman Joe Ostuni Jr.

Democrats have failed to field any candidate for village office since 2001 and have not conducted a caucus since that year.