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Lake Placid vote count goes late

Lake Placid resident Ryan Tummons, left, signs in to vote in the village election at the North Elba Town Hall on Tuesday, March 16. Poll worker Mary Merrill, right, watches. In the background is a livestream of the polling place. (Enterprise photo — Elizabeth Izzo)

LAKE PLACID — Voters headed to the polls Tuesday to choose a new majority for the Lake Placid Village Board of Trustees. Results were not available by press time.

Lake Placid residents voted at the North Elba Town Hall between noon and 9 p.m. to choose a new mayor, two trustees and a justice. Face coverings were required to vote, due to the COVID-19 pandemic; that also drove many people to vote absentee this year.

With more than 200 absentee ballots to count as well as in-person votes, results of the election were not expected to be available until early this morning. Results stories will be posted on the Enterprise and Lake Placid News websites as soon as they are done, and in both newspapers’ print editions Thursday.

As Lake Placid Mayor Craig Randall retires after 12 years at the helm, two people are seeking votes to replace him: Trustee and Deputy Mayor Art Devlin, and former Mayor Jamie Rogers.

Devlin has reached his three-term limit on the village board; therefore, his seat is open. And current Trustee Scott Monroe is seeking a third term. The other candidates are Marc Galvin, Colin Hayes and Jackie Kelly.

Justice David Coursen is seeking reelection and is running unopposed.

All seats are four-year terms.

Saranac Lake election

Saranac Lake also has a village election today, but only one person is running, unopposed. Kelly Brunette, a Democrat, will fill the one-year remainder of a term on the village Board of Trustees. Former Trustee Patrick Murphy resigned from this position in July to devote more time to his work as executive director of the Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce. The next month, village Mayor Clyde Rabideau appointed Zelda Newman to fill the vacant seat until the March election. She did not run.

Brunette worked for 10 years in the village Community Development Office and is currently the Saranac Lake regional destination manager for the Franklin County Industrial Development Agency.

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