The acting supervisor, William Bichteman, cannot vote on the town board but otherwise has most of the powers of town supervisor. Republican council members say they want to leave it this way until voters can choose their own supervisor in November.
As the youngest boy in a family of nine children, Robert Snyder devoted himself to keeping the farm running as his sisters left to marry and three of his brothers served in the military.
From 2005 to 2011, the water district’s finances were kept track of with Post-it notes in a checkbook, according to water board Chairman William Bichteman, who is asking the town board to approve funding for an audit of the district’s finances.