The Town of New Paltz supervisor race pits the incumbent, running on a different party line, against the longtime village mayor, who would like to see the latter job eliminated entirely. Whether the village is outright dissolved or otherwise consolidated into a single New Paltz government would itself be subject to a voter referendum, but that won’t be this year. As only one candidate is championing that cause, the outcome of this election could determine whether that initiative even gets to the ballot.

A debate between those two candidates, hosted by the staff of the New Paltz Oracle , will be held October 24 at 7 p.m. in the Coykendall Science Building auditorium on campus.

Other elections in New Paltz have few actual contests. Christopher Marx has no opponent for highway superinten

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