Four individuals, Karl Gonzalez, Bill Lonecke, Michael McCarthy and Rick Rasmussen, have tossed their respective hats into the ring for the council chair left empty after Stephen Walker was picked to replace town supervisor T. Patrick Meehan, who passed away last November. Meehan’s spot was temporarily taken by former councilman and deputy supervisor James Miltenberger, who is no longer on the board. Walker had been on the town board for six years and the planning board for nearly 20 years before taking the reins in January, 2010. Walker is running unopposed for the supervisor’s job, fulfilling Meehan’s unexpired term which ends on Dec. 31, 2011, and if Walker is successful in his bid this November he would then need to run again in November, 2011, for a fresh two-year term. The local Democratic Party has not yet scheduled its caucus, planning to do so before the Sept. 14 deadline. Read the entire story in The Daily Mail.