CANTON -- In a tight four-way race for St. Lawrence County Coroner, incumbent Republican James Amo secured victory with 19,146 votes.

Winning the second coroner position was Steven Cary with 16,609 votes.

Republican James Sienkiewycz received 16,061 votes and Therese Miner ran as a write-in candidate for coroner this year. Write-in votes totaled 114.

A lifelong Ogdensburg resident, Amo spent more than two decades with the Ogdensburg Volunteer Rescue Squad, where he served as an emergency medical technician and held instructor certifications in CPR, first aid and automated external defibrillator training.

Amo said his emergency response experience taught him to remain calm, make sound decisions and treat people with dignity during difficult situations.

Cary was born and raised in St. Lawrence County and has lived in Canton for nearly 20 years. He owns O’Leary Funeral Service and is chief of the Canton Fire Department. He also previously worked as an emergency medical technician serving Canton and surrounding communities.

Cary said his background has given him experience handling difficult situations and working with families during times of loss.

His work in funeral service, fire and EMS has exposed him to tragedy, he said, helping him understand how to respond to difficult scenes while treating families with care.

Sienkiewycz has served as a county coroner since 2007. He said he first ran for the position because he wanted families to receive better communication about what happened to their loved ones and what to expect after an unexpected death.

Miner, an archaeologist who works in cultural resource management, studied political science and anthropology at SUNY Potsdam in the 1980s. She returned to Potsdam in 2010 and has raised her two children in the area.

Miner said concerns about how deaths are investigated in the county prompted her to run. She also ran a write-in campaign last year to raise concerns about what she believes were incorrectly determined causes and manners of death.

At the local level, Republican James LaFave secured victory to the Ogdensburg City Council with 1,740 votes to 370 write-ins.

In Pitcairn, Republican Jerry McIntosh defeated Democrat Allen Bango in the race for Superintendent of Highways by a margin of 173 to 118.

In Norfolk,incumbent Republican Derek Stevenson secured victory in the race for Town Justice against Democrat Rachael Mulvana by a margin of 864 to 544.

All results are unofficial and include early voting and absentee ballots received before yesterday.