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One Saranac Lake trustee seat up for election in March

SARANAC LAKE — One village board seat will be up for election in the March 16 election.

Zelda Newman, who currently holds that seat after being appointed in August has not announced if she will run for it yet, according to village Mayor Clyde Rabideau and village Clerk Kareen Tyler.

Newman was not able to be reached by publication of this article.

When Patrick Murphy resigned from his trustee position in July to devote more time to his work as executive director of the Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, Rabideau appointed Newman to fill the vacant seat.

The March election will only be for a one-year term, until the end of the two-year term limit. The seat will be open for election again next year, Tyler said.

The election will take place Tuesday, March 16 from noon to 9 p.m. at the Harrietstown town hall.

The signature-gathering period for independent nomination positions began Dec. 29.

“The number of signatures on an independent nominating petition is based on the village population,” Tyler wrote in an email.

So in Saranac Lake, with a population of around 5,000, candidates are required to get 100 signatures from registered voters in the village.

The first day candidates can file their independent nominating petitions is Feb. 2 and they can collect signatures up until the petition deadline Feb. 9.

From Jan. 4 to 11 candidates can file party designating petitions for village primaries.

From Jan. 5 to 12 political parties may publish a notice of a party caucus in a newspaper. Caucuses can be held between Jan. 19 and 26.

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