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Press-Republican SARANAC Saranac Town Clerk Mary L. Bell, 54, is accused of falsifying records and faces multiple felony counts. State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli and Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie announced the Redford woman was arrested Thursday for allegedly hiding her failure to deposit more than $800 in cash payments to the town that she had collected as clerk between April and August 2017. “Ms. Bell, as an elected official, swore to act with honesty and integrity,” DiNapoli said in a statement. “Instead, she took advantage of her position to manipulate the town’s records to cover for missing cash she was supposed to deposit.