It may be the day after St. Patrick’s Day but it is the day for village elections.

Need some guidance before you head to the polls today? Check out our Editorial Board’s endorsements in contested mayoral and village trustee elections in Rockland, Putnam and Westchester counties at LoHud.com/villageleections09. (Some voters also will elect village justices at this time.)

Want to hear straight from the horses’ mouths? Westchester, Rockland and Putnam voters can tune into this month’s Editorial Board interviews with the candidates; go to  www.LoHud.com/editorialspotlight, click “On Demand” and select the video from the menu.

All races can have write-in challengers. Yet there are no formal contested campaigns for such posts in Rockland this year in Chestnut Ridge, Kaser, New Square, Grand View, Hillburn, South Nyack and Upper Nyack. The villages of Wesley Hills and New Hempstead, which hold spring elections, have no village board seats up this year. The following Rockland villages hold November elections: Haverstraw, Nyack, Piermont, Sloatsburg, Spring Valley, Suffern and West Haverstraw.
Neither are there contested races in the Westchester villages of Briarcliff Manor, Bronxville, Elmsford, Hastings-on-Hudson, Larchmont, Pelham, Pelham Manor, Rye Brook, Scarsdale, Tarrytown and Tuckahoe. The following villages in Westchester County hold November elections: Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry, Mamaroneck, Mount Kisco and Ossining.
Of Putnam’s three villages, Brewster holds elections in November; races in Nelsonville that are before village voters tomorrow are uncontested.
Some Westchester village elections — for example, Elmsford, Irvington, Pelham and Sleepy Hollow — are run by the county Board of Elections; otherwise the villages themselves run them. For more information, contact your village clerk. Hours for the vote generally are 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Vote! It’s your right, and responsibility.