Numbers favor Democrats in village

enrollment figures show dems outnumber GoP by 248 voters

By RuSS TARBy

Contributing Writer

While Republicans have dominated Liverpool’s village government for the past quarter-century, voter enrollment figures show that Democrats far outnumber Republicans in the village, 681 to 433.

For the first time in 22 years, village Democrats caucused on April 28 and nominated candidates for village government offices, Stacy Finney for mayor, and Melissa Cassidy and Rachel Ciotti for trustee seats.

The caucus – the first conducted by local Dems since 2001 – took place at the Pratt & Huerta home at 807 Oswego St.

The village Republican caucus was conducted the night before, on April 27, at the village hall. That caucus voted unanimously to nominate incumbent Trustee Christina Fadden for mayor. The GOP also nominated incumbent Trustee Dennis Hebert for re-election and newcomer Ryan Miller to run for the trustee seat being vacated by Fadden.

Each of those village offices are for a two-year term. ed a run in the sixth as, down 4-2, Saratoga put up a run in the top of the seventh, but Frani got the final out. Ragonese and Mills each got two hits as Flavin, Wiggins and Stevens all drove in runs.

Also 472 non-affiliated Figures provided in mid-April by the Onondaga County Board of Elections show that the village is home to 681 Democrats, 433 Republicans, 24 Conservatives, six members of the Working Families party, 83 registered in other parties and 472 non-affiliated.

On April 10, seven-term incumbent Mayor Gary White announced that he would not seek re-election this year. Instead, he encouraged former deputy mayor Fadden to seek the job.

C-NS, meanwhile, was contained Friday in a 6-0 defeat to Chittenango, victimized mostly by the bat of Stephanie Huckabee, whose home run and double led to five RBIs.

The Northstars only got four hits off Bears pitcher Caroline Porter, one each by Bella Julian, Isabella Moya, Erica Hibbard and Tahlia Gerardi.

A day later, facing Saratoga, C-NS lost, 9-5, to the Blue Streaks, shut out until it scored all of its runs in the seventh inning. Girardi and Hibbard had two hits apiece as the Northstars also fell to Shenendehowa 15-3 despite Eva Farone’s pair of hits.

Liverpool, C-NS boys tennis beats West Genesee

By Phil BlACkwEll

Though swept in two matches against Cicero-North Syracuse , the Liverpool boys tennis team did manage to pick up a victory in last Tuesday’s SCAC Metro division showdown with West Genesee.

The 5-2 victory included a singles win from Justin Barrett while Kasey Maher rolled past Josh Pierce 6-1, 6-0, even as Mason Pinchin took a 6-3, 6-1 loss to Nate Ruston.

To lead the doubles charge, Aiden Hunter and Andrew Wadie rolled past Nathan Smith and Willard Young in their own 6-1, 6-0 decision as James Welch and Andrew Caimano routed Ty’san Scott and Dan Alvaro 6-0, 6-2. In three tough sets, Grey -

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son Valente and Raury Bienkowski outlasted Matt Dalton and John McCann 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, which made up for John Ioannidis and Dan Haynes falling to Jacob Dalton and John Diem 6-3, 6-4.

When C-NS had its turn against Liverpool on Friday afternoon, it wasn’t as close, the Northstars dominating the Wildcats in a 7-0 sweep.

Once Wyatt Dupell had blanked Ruston 6-0, 6-0, Brady Petranchuk had beaten Scott 6-0, 6-2, with Brandon Nguyen handling Alvaro in two sets 6-1, 6-0.

Combined, C-NS’s doubles teams of Matt Jordan-Ryan Kiel, Peter Gill-Andrew George, Tim Mai-Joe DeGroat and Mike DeGroat-Alex Cao lost just five games in eight sets.

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Croce, 45, of 1205 Oswego St. in Liverpool.

He was charged with five felonies and one misdemeanor, including first degree reckless endangerment, third degree criminal possession of a weapon and third degree criminal mischief.

On Saturday, Croce was still being held at the Corbett Justice Center in Syracuse.

According to his LinkedIn account, Croce is a digital marketing consultant and owner of Croce Properties, managing rental properties. He is a graduate of the University of Rochester and of the U.S. Marine Corps Institute.