Results are in for Tuesday's primaries in four Greene County towns: Athens, New Baltimore, Prattsville and Windham. All results are still unofficial, and with absentee ballots yet to be counted, the balance could shift in close races.
Prattsville's Republican primary was the most contentious, with two opposing slates of candidates vying for four seats on the county Republican Committee. Voters apparently opted to split the difference; the four top vote-getters among the eight candidates included two from each faction.
David Martin of the Unite Prattsville group got the most votes, with 84; a close second was Republican Cooperation candidate Joyce Peckham with 83. Tied at 71 votes were candidates from each side: Unite Prattsville's Dennis Hull and Republican Cooperation's Carol Bellomy. Greg Cross and Antoinette Hull of Unite Prattsville got 69 and 66 votes respectively; Jim Young and Kenneth Maurer of Republican Cooperation got 65 and 57 votes. No absentee ballots are issued in county committee races, a county election official said.
Athens Republicans also voted for candidates for the county Republican Committee; voters chose four from a slate of five. Results were: John Farrell Jr. with 50 votes, Anthony Paluch and Marilyn Farrell with 46 votes each, Herbert Blasewitz with 35 votes, and Fred Dedrick II with 29 votes.
Just 14 Athens Independence voters turned out for a primary in the town supervisor's race; all of them voted for Joseph Iraci, the only choice on the ballot. Voters also had a chance to write in a candidate, but none did.
Results from the Independence primary for supervisor in New Baltimore were a little more interesting: The write-in-only race drew 12 voters, who split between Nicholas Dellisanti with six votes, Susan O'Rorke with four, and Sally-Anne Russo and Diane Jordan with one vote each. With nine absentee ballots issued and not yet counted, the final count could shift the vote.
New Baltimore Republicans had a choice between two candidates for tax collector: Sally-Anne Russo, who won with 116 votes, and Diane Jordan, who got 78.
Windham Independence voters had a chance to vote for candidates or write in their own for two races: town supervisor and town council. Candidate Stacy Post, who was on the ballot, won the Independence nomination for town supervisor over write-in candidate Stephen Walker, 18 to 2. In the town council race, the two candidates on the ballot held the day: Erica Regan got 18 votes, Edward Shanley got 8. Write-in candidates Bob Pelham and Wayne Vanvalin got three votes each.
