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 ...

Resident and Pirate’s Booty founder Robert Ehrlich is not letting a little thing like an election get in his way of running the Village of Sea Cliff. Ehrlich and three other men arrived at village ...

Robert Ehrlich attempted to seize control of his coastal Long Island village on March 10, citing an obscure New York law as grounds for his takeover Inc Village of Sea Cliff/Facebook The founder of ...

Mayor Elena Villafane and Trustees Mark Sobel and James Versocki weren’t the only Sea Cliff residents sworn into their positions at the village’s organizational meeting. Over 70 volunteer positions ...

Try that in a small town. The founder of beloved cheese-puff brand Pirate’s Booty claims to be the mayor of a newly formed Long Island town-within-a-town in a “legal” maneuver that is being brushed ...

A peculiar power struggle is unfolding in the small village of Sea Cliff, where one prominent resident is asserting himself as the new mayor, despite resistance from local officials. Robert Ehrlich, ...

He’s trying to pillage the village. The creator of popular cheese-buff brand Pirate’s Booty is staging an “attempted coup” of a Long Island village — as residents speculate he’s trying to get back at ...

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Twice a year as the seasons change, Bruce Kennedy climbs a ladder to twist and turn a series of valves and levers that control Sea Cliff Village Hall’s more-than-a-half-century-old heating, ...

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