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Niskayuna Supervisor Jaime Puccioni is seeking her second term in office in Tuesday’s general election, which will pit her against Republican challenger Brian Backus, a former Niskayuna School Board member.
Residents of one Schenectady County town will elect a new supervisor this fall. Niskayuna Town Supervisor Yasmine Syed is not seeking a third two-year term. The Republican says she will leave office at the end of the year and move to the Syracuse area, where her husband will be stationed with the Air Force Medical Service Corps. Running to replace Syed is Democrat Jaime Lynn Puccioni, a University at Albany education professor who serves on Niskayuna’s Task Force of Racial Equity and Justice. "We moved here when my son was in elementary school, and now we're looking at colleges. I've seen f...