Route Is Circuitous
To Pick Next Sheriff
Election Commissioners Detail Process

COOPERSTOWN – There are still a number of moving parts in the electoral process before voters decide who will be the next county sheriff, incumbent Richard J. Devlin Jr. or Bob Fernandez, the retired state trooper challenging him.
The county Board of Elections will convene a hearing this coming Tuesday, Aug. 7, to consider a challenge to Fernandez’s petitions to claim the Democratic line on the Tuesday, Nov. 6, general election ballot, according to Commissioners Lori Lehenbauer, the Republican, and the Democratic one, Mike Henrici.
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