Patricia Doxsey is reporting for the Daily Freeman controversial Ulster County Legislator Joseph Maloney has now set his sights on a Saugerties Town Board seat. After announcing in February he would not seek re-election to a second term in the legislature, the registered Democrat has now been tapped by the Saugerties Conservative Party as a candidate for town board. The committee also nominated Paul Andreassen for town supervisor and Mike Ivino for town board. Maloney was a registered member of the Independence Party in 2017 when he ran on the Republican line for the Legislature's District 2 seat and defeated incumbent Democrat Chris Allen. Six months after being sworn in, Maloney officially registered as a Democrat, a move that gave that party a 12-11 majority in the legislature. In January, the county Board of Ethics fined Maloney $7,000 and recommended he be suspended without pay for three months for three violations of the county's Ethics Law relating to his wife's employment. Read the full story in the Daily Freeman.