By Tom Grace
Cooperstown News Bureau
Today from noon to 9 p.m.,
voters in Otsego, Delaware
and Chenango
counties
will select
nominees in
several races
to represent
their parties
in the Nov. 3
general election.
In Otsego
County, many primary contests
are between Republican
candidates, although
one of the biggest is for the
Democratic nomination for
Oneonta mayor.
That race pits Democrat
Jason Corrigan, 21, a student
at the State University
College at Oneonta, against
Richard Miller, 66, retired
president of Hartwick College.
Miller is an independent
voter who has been
authorized by the county’s
Democratic Committee to
run as a Democrat.
Both men have secured
independent ballot lines and
will face Republican Erik
Miller in November regardless
of who wins today.
Also in the city of Oneonta,
city Judge Lucy Bernier, a
Democrat, and city Prosecutor
Michael Getman, a Republican,
will meet in the
Independence Party primary
for judge.
Otsego County has one
countywide primary as incumbent
Republican Treasurer
Myrna Thayne faces
Republican Edward Keator,
who is endorsed by the county’s
Republican Committee.
Keator has secured the
Independence and Conservative
parties’ nominations
and will be on the November
ballot no matter who wins
the primary. Thayne, who
is completing her first four year
term, must win today to
be on the November ballot.
Republican voters in
Westford, Worcester,
Maryland and Decatur
will select a nominee for
the Otsego County
Board of Representatives
_ incumbent
Donald Lindberg
of Worcester
or John Imperato of
Schenevus.
Both Republicans
have secured
secondary ballot
lines and will be on
the November ballot.
In Otsego County, there
are also a number of primaries
for town offices,
including the race for
Roseboom town supervisor,
where incumbent
Republican
Michael Stannard
faces Republican
Greta Peterson.
In the towns of
Butternuts, Decatur,
Maryland,
Middlefield, Otsego
and Unadilla,
Republicans will
select their nominees for
highway superintendent.
There are also many races
for other town posts
throughout the county.
In Delaware County,
Sidney Republicans will
select a nominee for town
supervisor, who will also
serve on the county board,
as incumbent Joseph
Maddalone of
Sidney faces Bob
McCarty of Sidney.
R e p u b l i c a n s
also will select
nominees for highway
superintendent
in the towns
of Colchester and
Hancock.
No Democratic primaries
are scheduled in
Delaware County.
Chenango County Republicans
will select a
nominee for supervisor
from Coventry,
where Janice
O’Shea faces John
Phelan Sr. Other
races are set for
several other town
offices. No Democratic
primaries
are scheduled in
Chenango County.
No primaries
are scheduled in Schoharie
County today.
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Tom Grace can be reached
at tgrace@thedailystar.
com or 847-9806.
