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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 â 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.
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The North Elba Town Hall is the home to the Lake Placid village offices.
(Enterprise file photo)
LAKE PLACID Voters in this village are heading to the polls today at the North Elba Town Hall between noon and 9 p.m. to choose a new mayor, two village trustees and a village justice.
With more than 200 absentee ballots to count as well as in-person votes, results of the election probably will not be available until early Wednesday morning. They will be posted on the Enterprise and Lake Placid News websites as soon as they are done, and in these newspapers’ print editions Thursday.
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Voters line up in the Harrietstown Town Hall auditorium in September 2020 to cast their ballots for the Saranac Lake Village Board of Trustees election, which had been postponed since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Enterprise photo â Amy Scattergood) SARANAC LAKE The Saranac Lake Village Board of Trustees will decide next month whether to mail out absentee ballot applications to all voters in a March 16 special election, as the village did last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. At Monday’s board meeting, village Clerk Kareen Tyler asked board members if they want to mail the applications again this year. Tyler said last year it cost the village around $6,000 to mail out the applications.
Kelly Brunette (Photo provided) SARANAC LAKE Kelly Brunette, the Democratic nominee for the March 16 Saranac Lake village board special election, has worked for the village before and believes it is her time to serve as an elected official in the community she has made her home. She believes the current village board is “strong” but that she could add a family-first mindset. “I represent a different constituency in the village that isn’t shown on the village board right now,” Brunette said. Brunette attended Paul Smith’s College in the 1990s, moving up here from Oswego. She left to attend the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse and “bounced around” before moving into the Saranac Lake community in 2004. Since then she has started a family.
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Kelly Brunette, who was nominated at a Democratic caucus Tuesday, Jan. 26, to run for an open Saranac Lake village board seat, speaks through a megaphone to a crowd of around 40 people at Berkeley Green.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) SARANAC LAKE It was 25 degrees and snowing in Berkeley Green Tuesday night when Kelly Brunette became the Democratic nominee for the March 16 village board election at an outdoor caucus. Currently, Brunette is the only candidate in the race, but the period for independent candidates has not occurred yet. Candidates can file independent nominating petitions starting on Feb. 2 and can collect signatures up until the petition deadline Feb. 9.