CAROGA — Meet Ralph Palcovic, a seasoned first responder and heretofore retired local lawmaker. The 65-year-old is applying to take his friend's job — town supervisor of Caroga. “I hope we're friends after this,” said two-term incumbent Scott Horton.  No stranger to local politics is Palcovic, who served multiple terms on the Town Board during the 2000s and 2010s, in addition to a brief stint leading the town in an acting capacity. The 29-year county emergency services official later supported Horton's candidacy for town supervisor in 2019 in hopes of unifying the government.  But now he believes that he would…