Mayor, 90, has served nearly half his life
Photo credit: Newsday/Audrey C. Tiernan | Lattingtown Mayor Clarence Michalis in front of the village office sign. (April 9, 2012)
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Clarence F. Michalis became mayor of Lattingtown the same summer Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and hundreds of thousands flocked to Woodstock.
Forty-three years later, Michalis is still at the head of the table for monthly trustee meetings in the tony village on Nassau County's North Shore.
Although no one keeps precise records, associations of municipal officials believe Michalis,...