Town clerk
Rosaria Peplow (D, C).
Sally Bellacicco (R, I, WF).
Veteran town clerk Rosaria Peplow, a Democrat, is being challenged by Republican Sally Bellacicco. Both believe that one of the great challenges that the position of town clerk faces is one of record storage and ways of finding grants and funding to digitalize town records. Both are also big advocates of being accessible to the public and being able to respond to their needs and answer their questions, while still keeping up with the many tasks that they are charged with handling on a day-to-day basis.
Highway superintendent
Rich Klotz (D, C, I).
Lenny Auchmoody (R).
The highway superintendent race is between Democratic incumbent Rich Klotz and Republican challenger Lenny Auchmoody. Both have years of experience managing a workforce, road construction and engineering, as well as snowplowing, excavating, drainage work and sticking to a budget. Klotz is hoping to save the town money with the new machine that it purchased that will allocate an exact amount of sand/salt mixture on the roads, rather than just spraying it at random. He believes that this will save a lot of money in terms of the amount of sand/salt that the road crews use, as well as helping in the spring when they clean the roads, as there would be much less to clean if they can reduce the salt and sand that they spray on the roads during wintertime.
Auchmoody believes that there could be better long-term road maintenance planning and scheduling. He also believes that public safety is a huge priority, and wants to meet with all of the schoolbus drivers to get their input on what they see as potential hazards or dangers on the roads as they drive schoolchildren to and from their homes.
Justice court
Town justice Terry Elia, a Republican, is being cross-endorsed by the Democrats as well and has no opposition in this race.
Ulster County Legislature
Herb Litts III (R, C, I).
Billiam Van Roestenberg (D).
Now that Wayne Harris has decided to retire, Herb Litts III, endorsed by the Republican Party and currently a town councilman, has thrown his hat into the ring to serve as the representative on the Ulster County Legislature for District 9, which includes portions of Gardiner and Plattekill. He is being challenged by Democrat Billiam van Roestenberg.
Gerard Lyons (D).
Mary Beth Maio (R, C, I).
Incumbent Mary Beth Maio, the current majority whip on the county legislature, is running for her third term as District 10’s representative on the Republican line. She is being challenged by Democrat Gerard Lyons.
When and where to vote
Voting will open at 6 a.m. and the polls will close at 9 p.m. Voting Districts 2, 3 and 4 will vote at the Highland Firehouse, Districts 5 and 6 vote at the Town Hall and Districts 1 and 7 at Highland High School.
