Week in Review: Missing Campaign Signs, 2012 Tentative Town Budget

With election season here, something other than candidate banter was the top story this week as Smithtown town council hopeful Howard Knispel said .

In other local government news, the. Most of the proposed budget, according to Superintendent of Highways Glenn Jorgensen, is cover clean-up costs from Tropical Storm Irene.

The Smithtown Special Library District held an event to introduce you to the board of trustee candidates, and we asked you how much interest you had in both the trustee elections and the budget vote.

Assemb. Fred Thiele and state Sen. Ken LaValle made headlines this week with their statements that the Long Island Association's proposal to merge Nassau and Suffolk is not feasible, but talked about instead, citing the population of Long Island being larger than 19 states in the country.

Finally, while not a local story, was felt everywhere, including Smithtown. Jobs died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer just one month after stepping down as chief executive of the company. He was 56 years old.