By Christopher Haraden

Voters will head to the polls on Monday, May 18 to cast their ballots in Hull’s annual town election, choosing among 19candidates for 15 seats on boards ranging from the school committee to the redevelopment authority to the town’s top elected body, the select board.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Hull High School, 180 Main St. For a sample ballot, see page 11 of this edition.

Contested races include five people seeking the two available three-year terms on the select board. Incumbent Jerry Taverna is being challenged by Michael A. Sampson, Susan Short Green, Patricia Lynn Cormier, and Christopher Niland. Board member Jason McCann did not seek re-election.

The school committee has two three-year terms available, with three candidates – current members Courtney Littlefield and Aleeza Hagerty and former member Ernest Minelli. Mark L. Kohn will face off against incumbent light board members Patrick Cannon and Jacob Vaillancourt for the two three-year seats available on the light board.

On the redevelopment authority, Charles Richardson is the only name on the ballot for a three-year term. He is being challenged, however, by Susan Vermilya, a founder of Save Our Space Hull, who is not among the 19 candidates who turned in nomination papers but has launched a write-in campaign. The candidate for the five-year term on HRA – C. Anne Murray – is unopposed. Write-in candidacies also are possible for two positions on the board of assessors that attracted no candidates by the application deadline.

One seat on the planning board will appear on the May ballot – the five-year position now held by Jeanne Paquin. She is being challenged by Lisa French.

In addition to the HRA candidates, running unopposed are housing authority member Anne-Margaret MacEachern and assessor Pamela Sinton-Coffman, as well as Thu-Hang Tran and Amy Hyde, who are the only candidates for two three-year terms on the library board.

To hear directly from the candidates, the League of Women Voters 2026 Candidates Forum is available on demand at Hull Community Television’s website, https://hulltv.net/?s=candidate. HCTV also filmed individual statements from the candidates that will be broadcast all day Monday. See page 14 of the print edition of The Hull Times for the schedule.

Results will be announced as soon as the votes are counted at the high school. If you voted by mail, you can check the status of your ballot at www.sec.state.ma.us/WhereDoIVoteMA/TrackMyBallot.

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