Nevinsmith will not seek reelection to Hadley Select Board

HADLEY — Jane Nevinsmith, a two-term member of the Select Board who previously chaired the Senior Center Building Committee, and has been a longtime volunteer at the Council on Aging, will not be running for reelection in May.

Nevinsmith, 85, wrote in an email that she will step off the Select Board after the town election in May, observing that she doesn’t have the stamina and time to do the job the way she believes it should be done.

A resident since 1979, Nevinsmith first won a position on the Select Board in a four-way race at the onset of the pandemic, and then ran unopposed in 2023.

The lone resident who has pulled nomination forms for the May 19 Select Board election is Jason Kostek of Norwottuck Drive. Residents have until March 27 to pick up papers.

It is mainly incumbents who have gotten papers from Town Clerk Jessica Spanknebel so far, including Tara Brugger and Ethan Percy for three-year terms on the School Committee; Kishore Parmar for a five-year term on the Planning Board; William Banack for a three-year term on the Board of Assessors; Maureen K. Devine for a one-year post as elector under the Oliver Smith Will; and Jo-Ann Konieczny for a three-year term on the Library trustees.

Aside from Kostek, the lone newcomer who has gotten nomination forms is Corrina Parsons, for a one-year term on the Park Commission.

Other incumbents up for election are Susan Mosler, for a three-year term on the Board of Health; James Shea, for a three-year term on the Park Commission; Steven Higgins, for a one-year term on the Park Commission; Lynne Latham, for a three-year term as Library trustee; and Richard Witkos, for a four-year term on the Hadley Housing Authority.

There is also a vacant three-year term on the Hadley Housing Authority.

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