Primaries take place today

Primary Day is today, June 22, and polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Eligible voters must vote at their regular polling site. Polling places can be found at bit.ly/ucpollingplace.

The races include Ulster County Legislature Chairman David Donaldson being challenged for the Democratic nomination in Legislature District 6 by Philip Erner.

Donaldson, D-Kingston, is the longest-serving member of the Legislature. He last faced a primary challenge in 2011.

The winners of the primaries will run in the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 2.

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There are Democratic primaries in five Ulster County towns and parts of the city of Kingston,

as well as Democratic and Working Families Party primaries in Legislature District 2, in Saugerties.

The Democrats running in District 2 are former Legislators Chris Allen, who served from 2014-17; Joseph Maloney, who served from 201819; and former Legislature candidate John Schoonmaker, who lost in 2017.

For the Working Families Party line in District 2, Schoonmaker will run against Jared A. VanVlierden and Brandon O. Deweever.

Saugerties Democrats also will select two Town Board candidates from a field of six. The six are Kevin Freeman, Lauren Ruberg, Kayleigh Zaloga, Nina Schmidbaur, Timothy Scott Jr. and Diedre Miller.

In the city of Kingston, Alderman Reynolds Scott-Childress is being challenged for the Democratic nomination in Ward 3 by former Alderman Brad Will; and Michael Oliveri and Laura Nordstrom are seeking the Democratic line in Ward 7. (Oliveri already has secured the Republican and Conservative lines on the November ballot.)

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Elsewhere in Ulster County, there will be Democratic primaries in:

• Gardiner, where Warren Weigand, Carol Richman and Todd Baker are vying for two Democratic nominations for Town Board seats.

• Marbletown, where voters will pick a candidate for supervisor between incumbent Richard Parete and Jacob Sherman.

• The town of Rochester, where voters will choose a town supervisor candidate from between incumbent Mike Baden and Bea Haugen-Depuy; and two candidates for Town Board from among Charlotte Knapp, Michael Coleman and Robert H. Kilpert.

• Woodstock, where voters will choose two candidates for Town Board from among Bennet Ratcliff, Maria Elena-Conte and Howard Harris.

TANIA BARRICKLO — DAILY FREEMAN Ballot masters, from left, Laura Hartmann, Donna Lutz, Joyce Brazier and Bob Schlichting sit in the Andy Murphy Center Midtown Neighborhood Center on Friday afternoon, June 18, where they had tables set up for early voting.