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Two of three seats up for election on Potsdam village board decided, the third not yet

Posted 11/8/17

By CRAIG FREILICH POTSDAM – Two of the three seats up for election to the village Board of Trustees appear to have gone to Democratic incumbents, while the outcome of the third is yet to be …

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Two of three seats up for election on Potsdam village board decided, the third not yet

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By CRAIG FREILICH

POTSDAM – Two of the three seats up for election to the village Board of Trustees appear to have gone to Democratic incumbents, while the outcome of the third is yet to be determined.

The winner of the third seat, for which no candidates were on the ballot, will likely be revealed soon after the St. Lawrence County Board of Elections begins counting write-in votes later this week.

At least two people had campaigned for write-in votes for the seat. They are the recently retired Canton-Potsdam Hospital nurse Rebecca Dufour, and Maggie McKenna, who is perhaps best known as the organizer of recent Ives Park concerts.

Steve Warr ran unopposed on the ballot and will keep his seat for a four-year term.

Abigail Lee, who was appointed this year to fill the seat vacated by trustee and deputy mayor Eleanor Hopke when she and her husband moved to the Rochester area, ran unopposed to fill the remainder of that term.

The third seat on the ballot was for the four-year trustee position that had been held by Ruth Garner, the late trustee and former mayor who died Oct. 18 at the age of 101. She had planned not to run again.

The St. Lawrence County Board of Elections will begin counting write-in votes on Thursday. No one there would commit today to a firm date for having the results.