Kathy Baxley retains trustee seat after uncontested Rockville Centre race

Rockville Centre Deputy Mayor Kathy Baxley retained her seat as a village trustee after a special election on June 19, in which she ran unopposed.

A total of 440 votes were cast, including 431 for Baxley and nine write-ins. Mayor Francis X. Murray appointed Baxley last June after then-Deputy Mayor Nancy Howard, who was moving to Florida, stepped down. The election secures an additional year for Baxley, whose seat will be up again next June.

Baxley, a South Side High School alumna, is a past-president of the Parent Teacher Associations of Jennie E. Hewitt Elementary School and South Side Middle School, and has served as president of the Rockville Centre Council of PTAs. Her term as president of the South Side High School PTA will end this year. She is also an officer of the Rockville Centre Breast Cancer Coalition, the Community Fund and the Sponsors of the Arts.