2026 New York General Election

Florence T. Santini

(Middletown, NY)-Town of Deerpark resident Florence Santini was honored this week as Senator John J. Bonacic’s (R/C/I-Mt. Hope) 2016 Woman of Distinction. The annual program honors women who have made exceptional contributions to their respective communities  Santini was joined by other honorees at ceremony in Albany.

Florence Santini was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and Clifton NJ. She was married to her husband Tar for over thirty years until his passing last year. They had two sons, four grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

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Due to her strong sense of community and willingness to serve, she was also elected to the Port Jervis School Board. Mrs. Santini is a member of the Catholic Daughters Court Madonna 114, and a member of the Ladies Auxiliary VFW Post 161. She volunteers regularly at St.
Joseph’s Place at Bon Secours Hospital. She also volunteers with Hudson Valley Honor Flight, and the 17th Street Cancer Crusade.

Mrs. Santini is a member of the Catholic Daughters Court Madonna 114, and a member of the Ladies Auxiliary VFW Post 161. She volunteers regularly at St.
Joseph’s Place at Bon Secours Hospital. She also volunteers with Hudson Valley Honor Flight, and the 17th Street Cancer Crusade. She is a member of the Orange/Sullivan Town Clerk’s Association, and the New York State Town Clerk’s Association.

Florence T. Santini was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and Clifton, New Jersey. She has volunteered at St. Joseph’s Place at Bon Secours Hospital, with Hudson Valley Honor Flight, and with the 17th Street Cancer Crusade. She was married to her husband, Tar, for more than 30 years until his passing and had two sons, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Florence Santini was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and Clifton NJ. She was married to her husband Tar for over thirty years until his passing last year. They had two sons, four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Together Flo and Tar operated Santini’s restaurant in the Town of Deerpark for many, many years.

Florence T. Santini previously operated Santini’s restaurant in the Town of Deerpark with her husband, Tar.

In 1999 Mrs. Santini was elected as the Town of Deerpark Tax Collector. She was handpicked by retiring Town Clerk, Shirley Zeller to succeed her and has served as Town of Deerpark Town Clerk since 2002. Due to her strong sense of community and willingness to serve, she was also elected to the Port Jervis School Board.

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Florence currently serves as town clerk for the Town of Deerpark, a position she has held since 2002. She was elected to the Port Jervis School Board and as the Town of Deerpark tax collector in 1999.

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Said she approaches the town clerk role as a people-focused position and treats everyone as a human being.

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Born in Brooklyn and raised in Clifton, New Jersey, Santini moved to the Town of Deerpark in the 1970s to run a restaurant with her husband, Dominick Santini.

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Florence T. Santini was born in Brooklyn and raised in Clifton, New Jersey. She is married to Dominick Santini.

Port Jervis School Board Member Florence Santini Seeks Reelection | The Epoch Times

For more than 20 years, her husband was the cook and Santini the manager at Santini’s Ristorante, an Italian eatery on Route 6 in Port Jervis.

Florence T. Santini previously worked as a manager at Santini’s Ristorante, an Italian eatery in Port Jervis.

Soon, Santini got involved in town government, being elected as tax collector in 1999 and then town clerk in 2002, a post she has held until now. [...] After a pause, Santini ran for school board again in 2014 and was elected to another three-year term. She was reelected in 2017 and again in 2020, during which she got 1,156 votes, the most among all seven candidates, according to the Times-Herald Record.

Florence currently serves as Deerpark town clerk, a post to which she was elected in 2002. She was elected to the school board in 2014 and reelected in 2017 and 2020. She was elected tax collector in 1999.

Said she treats everyone as a human being, regardless of title, in her role as town clerk.

Florence T. Santini was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and Clifton, New Jersey. She was married to Tar for more than 30 years until his passing, and they had two sons, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Florence was elected Town of Deerpark tax collector in 1999 and was also elected to the Port Jervis School Board.

Said she treats visitors to the town clerk's office as human beings regardless of professional title.

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Mrs. Santini is a member of the Catholic Daughters Court Madonna 114, and a member of the Ladies Auxiliary VFW Post 161. She volunteers regularly at St. Joseph’s Place at Bon Secours Hospital. She also volunteers with Hudson Valley Honor Flight, and the 17th Street Cancer Crusade.

Florence T. Santini was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and Clifton, New Jersey. She volunteers at St. Joseph’s Place at Bon Secours Hospital, Hudson Valley Honor Flight, and the 17th Street Cancer Crusade. She and her husband, Tar, were married for over 30 years, and they had two sons, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

After a pause, Santini ran for school board again in 2014 and was elected to another three-year term. She was reelected in 2017 and again in 2020, during which she got 1,156 votes, the most among all seven candidates, according to the Times-Herald Record.

She enjoys serving the residents as a town clerk, a job much like her role at the Italian eatery, she said. “It’s like I came from the restaurant, which was a people-person job, to the town clerk, which is also a people-person job,” Santini said. “I treat everyone as a human being; I often say, take your title off—be it a doctor or a lawyer—and everything underneath is the same.”