The Suffolk Times will announced its Public Servant of the Year in its Jan. 5, 2012 issue.
Here is a list of people that have won the award in the past decade:
• 2010 — Leslie Weisman
• 2009 — Betty Neville
• 2008 — Thomas Crowley
• 2007 — Phillip Beltz
• 2006 — Jesse Wilson
• 2005 — Martin Flatley
• 2004 — Mattituck-Cutchogue School Board
• 2003 — Ben Orlowski Jr.
• 2002 — Jack Sherwood
• 2001 — Dave Abatelli
• 2000 — Melissa Spiro