HATFIELD — Potential contested races for the Select Board and Board of Health for the next three years, and the office of town clerk, are developing for the May 16 town election.
Residents who want to seek elective office have a week left before the March 24 deadline to get nomination forms, and until March 28 to return them to be included on the May ballot.
For the three-year seat on the Select Board being vacated by Brian Moriarty, Kerry Flaherty and Amie M. Jones are the residents who have gotten nomination forms.
Jones’ LinkedIn page describes her as a human resources professional for Coca-Cola, while Flaherty is a Hatfield fire lieutenant who formerly served as the town’s COVID coordinator.
With Lydia Szych announcing her retirement as town clerk, Katrina Latourneau and Joanne Menard-Hogan have both pulled papers to succeed her in the role.
For the Board of Health, Timothy Menz and Susan Slysz have both pulled papers for the three-year seat held by Elizabeth Jane Kugler.
Szych, who has gotten papers to run for the vacant one-year position as Elector under the Oliver Smith Will to ensure the town doesn’t lose its representation, wrote in an email that she anticipates activity to pick up soon.
“I should be getting a lot of filings next week. They are due March 28,” Szych wrote.
Others who have gotten nomination papers include incumbent sChristy Boudreau and Rebecca Bench for three-year seats on the School Committee, incumbent James LaVallee for a three-year seat on the Board of Assessors, incumbent Marsha L. Humphrey for a three-year position as library trustee, appointee Kathleen Sheehan for a two-year position as library trustee, incumbent Jonathan Bardwell for a three-year seat on the Cemetery Commission, incumbent Joseph Lavallee for a three-year term as moderator, and incumbent Christopher Smith for a five-year term on the Hatfield Redevelopment Authority.
No one has yet pulled papers for a five-year seat on the Planning Board, held by John Bacon Jeffress V; and a five-year seat on the Hatfield Housing Authority, held by Michael Hogan.
