VOORHEESVILLE — Even with Sarita Winchell stepping down last month and Richard Berger declining to seek a seventh four-year term, the makeup of Voorheesville Board of Trustees will continue to have a familiar feel. 

After Winchell resigned in February, former longtime village clerk-treasurer  Linda Pasquali was named to take over the final year of Wincell’s four-year term.

Berger’s retirement clears the path for Nicholas Duncan, who sits on the village’s zoning board of appeals and chairs its conservation advisory council and is unopposed in Tuesday’s village election, where Mayor Rich Straut and Trustee Jack Stevens also face no competition. 

Berger was first elected in 1997. 

“I’m a quiet one on the board,” he told The Enterprise on Friday. “So I’d just as soon say that I’ve decided not to run. It’s just time.”

Berger said that getting the village to adopt a comprehensive plan was one of his proudest moments in his 29 years on the board. He declined further comment. 

Pasquali retired as clerk-treasurer in 2022 after nearly two decades of service to the village. She was brought back in 2024 as Straut’s executive assistant to help the office she once ran after two successive clerk-treasurers were hired and quickly left. 

Pasquali resigned from that post last month after being named Winchell’s replacement.

Pasquali sees the appointment as a way to continue to help the village and to once again fully enjoy retirement, which involves taking care of a not-yet-2-year-old granddaughter two to three days a week.

When the trustee appointment came up, Pasquali, with a background in village finances and office operations, said she saw it as a natural fit, particularly stepping into the budget duties previously held by Winchell. 

“I think Sarita was comfortable leaving, knowing that I could take over where she left off," Pasquali told The Enterprise on Friday.