Since Sandy walloped a tree on Council Crest Road in the Pine Grive Lakes neighborhood of Sloatsburg, SV.com has been without power and generator free. To all our dedicated readers we’d like to say, hey, thanks for visiting. Please check out our Sloatsburg Village Facebook page.

On the Facebook page, SV.com has continued to post regularly about gas lines, post-Sandy updates and other items of interest.

Watch for the coming Village Trustee election coverage as well. With temperatures rapidly dropping, the local election action is heating up. Candidate Dan O’Leary just dropped a mailer to most residents Friday that takes the fight to current incumbants Mark Reimer and Barbara Berntsen.

Candidate O’Leary’s mailer mentions the civil rights violation lawsuit pending against Reimer and the Village, as well as past suits the Village lost and had to pay out. Reimer in turn said on his A Partnership For Sloatsburg Facebook page that a vote for the current trustees is a vote for “fortitude, not weakness.”

Additionally, Trustee Reimer suggested that his opponents may “farm out” various Sloatsburg services to the Town of Ramapo, repeatedly mentioning the Department of Public Works.

Candidate Thomas Buckley responded that he and Dan O’Leary never discussed outsourcing any Sloatsburg services, including the DPW. Buckley considers Reimer’s suggestion mere campaign rhetoric.

Stay tuned for more election coverage from SV.com.

On another note, kudos to Annmarie McAnany, manager of the Tuxedo Farmers’ Market, who rallied vendors and put on a terrific market day Saturday. McAnany’s energetic guidance of the market this year has helped expand both customers and vendors.

Sloatsburg is due to get it’s power back on November 11, according to Orange and Rockland. Bundle up and let’s hope that possible no’easter predicted for mid next week blows somewhere else.

Sunday it’s time to fall back and click those clocks back an hour. Say hello to early darkness. Daylight Savings takes place Sunday, November 4 at 2 a.m