South Blooming Grove, New York
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South Blooming Grove, New York is a village in the Town of Blooming Grove in Orange County. The village encompasses 4.98 square miles and has a population of approximately 2,800. Robert Jeroloman is the village's first, and current, mayor; his term expires in March 2008.
The idea for incorporating a new village came in 2004 when a group called the South Blooming Grove Homeowner's Association were concerned about the expansion of the nearby Satmar Hasidim village of Kiryas Joel and hoped to check it by incorporating. After gathering over 1,000 signatures in favour of the new village, a New York State Supreme Court Justice put things on hold in January 2005. [1] Finally, on June 29, 2006, incorporation passed overwhelmingly, 856 votes to 89. [2]
A similar incorporation vote was held August 11, 2006 in the neighboring Town of Woodbury; it also passed by a wide margin.
On September 2, 2006, South Blooming Grove held its first board elections. The candidates for mayor (Jeroloman) and four trustee seats (Garry Dugan, Jim Mulany, Dorine Sas and John Hickey) ran unopposed.
[edit] External links
South Blooming Grove homepage: [3]
