Republican ekes out win in race for supervisor
Democrat Kellogg loses third straight bid for town’s top job
The third time wasn’t the charm for Tracy Kellogg.
Kellogg, a Democrat making her third consecutive bid to become town of Hurley supervisor, came up 13 votes short when the counting of absentee ballots was completed Monday.
Republican John Perry won the election, 1,169 to 1,156, and will succeed fellow Republican Gary Bellows, who chose not to seek reelection after serving 12 nonconsecutive terms as Hurley’s leader.
At the end of Election Day, Perry led Kellogg by just two votes, 1,104 to 1,102.
Kellogg, 55, moved to Hurley 16 years ago from Woodstock, where she served as town supervisor and a Town Board member in the 1990s.
She lost the Hurley supervisor elections to Bellows in 2013 and 2015, and she was unsuccessful
in bids to become a Hurley town justice in 2008 and 2011.
Perry, 40, is a 15-year Hurley resident and owner of Signature Fitness in Kingston. He served as
Hurley assessor in 2009.
He is a 1994 graduate of Kingston High School and is vice president of Kingston Uptown Business Association, an assistant varsity football coach at Kingston High School and a member Hurley Recreation Board.
Perry and his wife, Dominique Musialkiewicz, have three children.
Kellogg graduated from the Ulster Academy in 1979, earned a bachelor’s degree in public policy/planning from SUNY Albany in 1983 and received a law degree from the Western New England College of Law in Springfield, Mass., in 2007.
She and her husband, Eric Brown, have three children.