Derek Doty, a lifelong resident of Ray Brook, was elected supervisor of the Town of North Elba in November 2021. He is a 1975 graduate of Saranac Lake High School, and worked with his father, Tom Doty, for a time at Doty's Meat Market in Saranac Lake; it closed in 2001. 

See the front page article in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, December 29, 2021, Doty ready to take the helm in North Elba.