SACKETS HARBOR — Voters in the village have their choice of four candidates for two Board of Trustees seats on Election Day.

The incumbents, Lawrence C. Barone and Genie McKay, are joined in the race by challengers Vincent J. Battista and Helene Stewart-Rainville. The top two vote-getters Nov. 4 will be awarded the seats.

Mr. Barone was first elected to the board two years ago. He owns The Gallery-Fine Art, at 115 W. Main St. He wants to keep the village's history central to its development, improving the quality of life for the village's residents.

"In Sackets Harbor, history is an integral part of daily life," he said. "We've done well establishing the branding notion of Sackets Harbor."

Mr. Barone wants to improve the village's infrastructure.

"Maintaining the health and welfare of the village is a major responsibility of village government," he said.

But improvements to highly visible infrastructure, such as sidewalks and Market Square Park, are important, he said.

Mr. Barone, a Republican, also said he has tried to focus on quality-of-life issues, making village services efficient and effective. He would like to see the police department, which once was mentioned in shared services discussions, remain the same.

"When we do ask for a tax dollar, we're going to give back to the residents of Sackets the maximum value," he said.

Genie McKay was appointed in December to finish the term of Michael R. Kinnie, who had been elected mayor. She is running for her first full two-year term.

She wants to continue working on rewriting the zoning laws, lowering water rates, finding more ways of giving the public information and responding to citizens' needs.

"We need to rewrite the zoning laws to make them equitable, reasonable and understandable," she said.

Mrs. McKay is a member of the committee rewriting the zoning laws. She said the village needs moderately priced housing, along with some commercial and possibly light industrial development.

She wants the new water treatment and sanitary sewage plants to use new technology that will save the village thousands on utility costs. That, in turn, could mean less for ratepayers.

"We need to continue to go green for our benefit and for the benefit of future generations," she said.

Mrs. McKay said she wants the village to use an electronic storage system to file all laws, decisions and data. This would help the public in speeding the village's ability to find documents.

Mrs. McKay, a Democrat, said making fair decisions is an important piece of the job. "Everyone from summer residents to developers, all are as important as anyone, even the summer residents," she said. "I've tried to be responsive to citizens and I think I have so far."

Vincent J. Battista has owned Sackets Harbor Country Mart for four years and lived in the village for a year and a half.

"I'm really just all about making the village the best village in upstate New York it can be," he said.

He echoed concerns of balancing good services with lower taxes and water rates. He also wants to improve communication between village government and local residents and see more year-round events.

"I don't think we do a good job getting the message out and listening to the concerns of the village residents," he said.

For example, he said, many people came to his store during the Sept. 16 storm that knocked out power for nearly two days in the village. While cleanup was efficient, many people did not know how long electricity would be unavailable or where they could go for help.

He'd like to institute office hours for trustees and make meetings more accessible.

He also would like to see more family events during the year. "Summer ends and then we're done," he said. "Family events are the key — like last year's hockey event."

Mr. Battista is running on the Republican line.

Helene Stewart-Rainville has lived in the village for just over two years with her husband, a soldier, and two children. A native of Ontario, she is now a U.S. citizen and has worked for both the Canadian government and U.S. Army.

Ms. Stewart-Rainville wants the village to step up its sidewalk installation and replacement program.

"At this point, many sidewalks are disconnected or broken, so those with wheelchairs can't get around," she said. And incomplete sidewalks make passage to school dangerous for children, she said.

She is excited about the possibility of a community garden and is proposing the middle and high school students who are no longer part of the summer recreation program instead help in the garden. Ms. Stewart-Rainville also wants to explore public transportation to the Salmon Run Mall area in Watertown, more shared services, cutting fuel costs by limiting idling and a program to help people install numbers on their houses for emergency services.

Ms. Stewart-Rainville would push for easier access to village information such as e-mail addresses for all of the trustees and department heads, village laws and an online or television broadcast of village meetings. Ms. Stewart-Rainville, running on the Democratic line, wants to make sure the interests of each demographic in the village are represented.

"There's a disregard of some of those groups," she said. "I'd like to institute a checklist to make sure we're balancing the interests of each group, whether it's children or senior citizens or any other group."