August 31, 2011 - Sodus - Registered Republicans heading to the polls in Sodus on Sept. 13 will choose one of two candidates for their party’s slot for Highway Superintendent on the November ballot. Both pledge to improve the town’s infrastructure.

Bill DuBois
After over 11 years as Town of Sodus Highway Superintendent, Bill DuBois hopes to have the chance to serve the town for another term. “I want to be able to give back to the community what my community has given to me,” says DuBois, who is running in the Republican primary for a slot on November’s ballot.  

DuBois says he “began riding wing on a snowplow” for Sodus as a part time worker on its road crews about 43 years ago. He was elected Highway Superintendent in 2000, taking his first full-time job with the town. DuBois says that since that time, the town has blacktopped more than 7.5 miles of gravel road, added “quite a few new water lines,” and upgraded its road equipment, much of which was from the 1970’s when he took office.

“I’ve built up a very good fleet of equipment, along with the help of the town board,” he says.  
He hopes to be able to continue such work in 2012.  “I would like to see the infrastructure in this town a lot better than it is now,” he says. DuBois is also part owner and operator of the DuBois Fruit Farm in Sodus, he says. The 63-year-old is the father of two grown children.

Gregory Allman
Gregory Allman says Sodus’s roads are in need of major improvements. “The upkeep of them, I do not believe, has been adequate over the years,” he says. The result can be seen and felt, “by the cracks and the bumps and the missing asphalt, high shoulders and water holes when it rains,” he says.
Allman, a newcomer to politics, says the solution to the problem goes beyond repaving sections of the town’s roads. 

“It’s time for a change in the position of the Highway Superintendent,” he says. Allman refused to criticize his opponent. He did pledge that, if elected, he would seek feedback from Sodus residents about “the problems in the town that I could address,” he says. He would categorize and prioritize the projects his department could tackle, while keeping Sodus residents apprised of the costs those his department undertook, he says.

Allman says he has been a paving contractor for 27 years and owns and heads the local firm Double AA Driveways, where he supervises as many as five people at a time. He also owns David Allman Fruit Farms. Allman says he and his son manage the farm, as well as four others they rent.  

Allman is a veteran-he speaks with a touch of pride of his six years as a heavy equipment operator in the US Navy, which he left with the rank of petty officer. He also revs up his motorcycle to join other members of Region 2 of the New York State Patriot Guard when they are invited to escort the funerals of fallen soldiers, he says. The 49-year-old is the father of four children, two of them grown. ###