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Ed LaVigne defeated Chris Williams  369 to 65 in yesterday's primary election for Republican candidate for Lansing Town Supervisor.  There were two write-in votes.  LaVigne will face off against incumbent Supervisor Kathy Miller (D) in the November 3rd election.  Williams called LaVigne to concede when the results were released.

"The primary is designed so that if there is a difference of opinion, and support for those opinions, a primary will be followed with an election," LaVigne said after the unofficial results were tallied last night.  "The process makes the candidate, in my opinion, a better candidate.  I have nothing but the utmost respect for Chris Williams.  There is definitely a place for him in our party.  He brings his energy and enthusiasm.  I look forward to talking to him about future ideas that can benefit Lansing.  Moving forward, my objective is to win the general election and make Lansing a better place to live."

LaVigne, a lifelong Lansingite, is completing his first term on the Lansing Town Board.  He is President of the Lansing Community Council and an active community leader at the Lansing United Methodist Church.  He is a pharmacist, working at the Lansing Tops on Triphammer Road.  He favors a slow, evolutionary approach to growth in the town.

He will now challenge Miller for the Supervisor seat.  She and her husband Bill have lived in Lansing for almost 30 years.  Miller is retired from Cornell University where she worked in Clinical Sciences at the Vet School in the field of molecular genetics studying genetic disease in animals.  She was a Town Board member for two years before being elected Supervisor four years ago.  She has served as liaison to the Cayuga Lake Watershed Management Plans Intermunicipal Organization and Lansing's Zoning Board of Appeals.  Miller is a former Lansing Board Of Education member, and chaired the Lansing Town Center Committee.

Former Councilwoman Andra Benson (D), Katrina Binkewicz (D), Rick Hayes (R), and Connie Wilcox (R) will vie for two open Town Council seats being vacated by LaVigne and Democrat Ruth Hopkins.  Deputy Highway Superintendent Charlie 'Cricket' Purcell is running for the top seat in the Highway Department in the wake of retiring Superintendent Jack French.  Town Clerk Debbie Crandall and Town Justice John Howell are also running for an additional term.

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