Turnout was low last Tuesday in the uncontested village elections.

In Voorheesville, with a population of roughly 2,800, seventy-one villagers turned out to vote for Richard Straut, running in a special election to fill out a two-year term for trustee. There were no other openings.

Brett Hotaling had resigned from the village board a year ago to become the village’s superintendent of public works, like his father and grandfather before him. Straut, who was the village engineer at the time, stepped up to take Hotaling’s place on the board, setting aside his firm’s professional agreement with Voorheesville to do so.

Straut is currently serving as the village board’s liaison to the comprehensive planning committee. (See related letter to the editor.)

In Altamont, with a population of about 1,700, seventy-two people voted. John Scally, the only newcomer, got 72 votes. He will fill the seat left vacant by Kerry Dineen who ran for mayor and got 71 votes.

Dineen, a Guilderland school music teacher, served as a trustee for 12 years. She was elected to that post 12 years ago on the same slate as the outgoing mayor, James Gaughan, and Trustee Dean Whalen.

Whalen, an architect who shepherded Altamont through its development of a comprehensive plan, received 70 votes in the March 21 election to serve another four-year term.

Madeline LaMountain, who was appointed last year to fill the seat left vacant when Trustee Christine Marshall died, garnered 71 votes to fill out the two years left in that term.

Finally, James Greene, an attorney who was appointed an Altamont village justice in 2015 after Lesley Stefan resigned, and was then elected in 2016 to fill out that term, got 71 votes for a full four-year term.