Officials and members of the Village of Huntington Bay community gathered Friday to bid farewell to longtime police officer Jay Verme, who has retired after 28 years of service with the village department.

While many Huntington Town Hall workers returned back Tuesday from the long weekend to business as usual, the New Year brought with it a change in the town supervisor’s office.

Hundreds of Huntington residents, dignitaries and past and present elected officials from all levels of government packed Walt Whitman High School on Tuesday to witness the swearing in of newly-elected officials.