Superintendent of Highways Kathy Kinsella and the Town of Rhinebeck

In case you didn’t know it, Kathy Kinsella is unique. As highway superintendent of the town of Rhinebeck she is a member of a select group of individuals. Kathy is one of only six female supers out of the more than 1,000 in New York State.

Born and raised in the Bronx, Kathy jokingly credits her brothers for her desire to go after such a position. Click for more

Superintendent of Highways Rodney Gleason and the Town of Allegany

There is an oil shortage in this country, and that fact is perfectly obvious in the oil patch in Western New York and Pennsylvania.

“In one recent year there were 275 brand new oil digs planted in part of the Allegany River Valley called Chipmunk Valley,” said Rodney Gleason, highway superintendent of the town of Allegany. Click for more

Superintendent of Highways James Fugel and the Town of Olive

Jim Fugel, highway superintendent of the town of Olive, has been having a love affair with cars for most of his life. What started when he was a kid working in his family’s automotive shop branched out to racing dirt cars and ultimately landed him the highway department’s top spot. Click for more

Superintendent of Highways Mike Smart and the Village of Attica

It is almost laughable what Mike Smart inherited when he first assumed the position of superintendent for the village of Attica in 1990.

“There was no office really. The water lines were mapped on cardboard. The equipment was old and shot,” he recalled. Click for more

Superintendent of Highways Jack Wickham Jr. and the Town of Ovid

Because a municipal clerk, back in the early 1800s, was given the privilege of naming Ovid, the town became an avatar of sorts for a romantic poet from ancient Greece — high on a rounded hill above the shores of two Finger Lakes, Cayuga and Seneca. Click for more