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The Hingham Republican Committee is reaching out to solicit names of registered Republicans who are interested in working at the Town of Hingham Election Polls for the following three 2026 Elections: ·       Town Election on Saturday, May 2 nd from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM·     ·       State Primary on Tuesday, September 1 st   from 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM·    ·       State Election on Tuesday, November 3 rd from 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM Hingham’s Town Clerk, Carol Falvey, will work with you to schedule your shift, but you are likely to be assigned a half day shift.  As a reminder, you must be registered Republican. Please reach out to Ted Matthews at hinghamrtc@yahoo.com  by February 5 th  if you are interested or if you have any questions.

Local nomination papers for all of Hingham’s elected municipal positions will be available starting on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, at 8:00 AM in the Town Clerk’s Office.  The following elected positions will be on the May 2, 2026, Annual Town Election ballot: Town Moderator - 1 Year Term     Select Board - 3 Year Term Board of Assessors - 3 Year Term Board of Health - 3 Year Term Municipal Light Board - 3 Year Term School Committee (2 seats) - 3 Year Term Planning Board - 5 Year Term Sewer Commission - 3 Year Term Recreation Commission - 5 Year Term To become a candidate for local office, one must be 18 years of age and be a registered voter in the Town of Hingham.  Each candidate shall file with the Town Clerk, prior to obtaining blank nomination papers, a statement containing the individual’s name, address and the Town Office for which the individual intends to be a candidate. While candidates must obtain the signatures of at least fifty (50) registered voters in the Town of Hingham, we recommended candidates obtain 75 signatures. Completed nomination papers are due by Monday, March 13, 2026, at 5:00 PM. 2026 Officials with expiring terms Moderator (one-year term) Michael Puzo Select Board (three-year term) William Ramsey Board of Assessors (three-year term) Randy Winters Board of Health (three-year term) Elizabeth Eldredge Municipal Light Board (three-year term) Tyler Harrold School Committee (three-year term) Michelle Ayer Jennifer Benham Planning Board (five-year term) Gary Tondorf-Dick Sewer Commissioner (three-year term) Richard Eisen Recreation Commission (five-year term) Matt LeBretton   Note - Town Meeting is Monday, April 27, 2026, and if required, Tuesday April 28, 2026

Many of you participated in the 2022 signature drive for the No Driver’s Licenses for Illegals , and Babies Born Alive ballot petitions. This fall, MA4FairElections is coordinating a new signature drive for three important petitions, beginning this week: Requiring voter ID at the polls Repealing the “no excuse” mail-in voting law Requiring Secretary Galvin to make the statewide voter rolls available to the public for auditing. The petitions are approved and we are moving forward. For more information, click here: https://www.ma4fairelections.org/ The Hingham Republican Town Committee will be hosting signature collection events locally, and we need volunteers. You can join us at these events or help by collecting signatures from family and friends, every signature counts. Many hands make light work! If you would like to volunteer, or to pick up blank petitions and get started on your own, please contact: 📧 Judy Kelly at kelleygirls4@hotmail.com | 📱 Call/Text: 781-710-6192 📧 Ted Matthews at Ted_Matthews@icloud.com  | 📱 Call/Text: 617-312-7200

Tuesday, July 22nd's meeting of the Selectboard is a major opportunity to express your viewpoint related to the proposed project. We will hear preliminary plans for the proposed Center for Active Living. Please try to attend and offer feedback during the Public Comment session or by e-mail following the meeting. You can join by Zoom if you'd like.  Many people are now thinking that we don't need a NEW building. Especially on 6 acres of undeveloped land in Bare Cove Park with 200 parking spaces.  Select Board Meeting Agenda July 22, 2025 at 6:00 P.M. Town Hall Central Meeting Rooms (2nd Floor) 210 Central Street Hingham, MA OR Remote meeting via Zoom: Dial-in number: 929-205-6099 Meeting ID: 868 7614 2895 Passcode: 111222 Website: https://zoom.us/join 1. Call to order 2. Pledge of Allegiance 3. Police Officer interviews and potential appointments (Potential candidates: Daniel Martini, Dylan Diersch, Jenna Hurlburt) 4. 6:30 PM: Joint meeting with the Hingham Center for Active Living Building Committee: Presentation and discussion regarding the preliminary design of the new Center for Active Living Building 5. Public Comment 6. Adjourn

What you and your Republican Town & City Committees can do for open, honest elections. NCRC Election Training on Zoom will provide the essential information that every RTC/RCC should know by MassGOP Election Integrity leaders. Tuesday, June 24th - 7:30 - 8:30 pm Includes Q&A RSVP for link: skillfulactivist@gmail.com

After two nights of thoughtful and civil debate and discussion, Hingham’s 2025 Annual Town Meeting concluded its work on April 29th at 11:30 PM.  In all, the meeting made decisions on the 46 questions before it, whether on voice votes or standing (counted) votes. Attendance was strong for both nights, with 735 voters on night one and 733 voters on night two. Results can be found on the Current Articles page. Open Town Meeting is an essential element of Hingham’s character, as is civic engagement through volunteer service.  Please offer your volunteer service by completing the Talent Bank Form .  There is something for everyone.  Useful Links Town Meeting Results Town Election Details Town Election Ballot Talent Bank Form List of Boards and Committees Agendas and Minutes for all Boards and Committees Board and Committee Volunteers | Hingham, MA Existing-Appointments-and-Vacancies-for-Boards-and-Committees

On Sunday, April 13th the Hingham Republican Town Committee hosted a Candidate Forum at Hingham Library. Candidates Julie Strehle, candidate for Select Board, John Mooney, candidate for School Committee, Tim Sullivan, Housing Authority and Crystal Kelly and Tom Patch candidates for Planning Board were in attendance. If you missed the forum, you can watch it by clicking the link below. Hingham Republican Town Committee Candidates Forum 2025

HINGHAM needs people with conservative values in elected positions.  Conservative coalitions are coming together. It is a bandwagon moment. This is an opportunity for Republicans to grab hold of seats both locally, and statewide. We must unite and support each other now more than ever. We are frustrated with Massachusetts' one-party rule. We live in one of the bluest states in the nation. We complain about wokeness in our schools, absurd housing developments pushed on us, overreaching state regulations threatening home rule, how our town finances are handled and a host of other local issues. If you love our town, please consider serving in one of the open positions:   Moderator (1 year term) Board of Assessors (3-year term)  Board of Health (3-year term) Select Board (3-year term) Municipal Light Board (3-year term) Housing Authority (5-year term) School Committee (3-year term) Planning Board (5-year term) Recreation Commission (5-year term)   This is an opportunity for each of us to help maintain conservative values in an immediate way, right where we live, work and play. There is no reason each of us cannot make a difference in our own backyard.  Please help preserve common-sense values in our community and for your children, and future generations. To help you with this decision, the MA GOP is hosting FREE training sessions, including one in Hanover next Saturday.  If you can consider the idea of serving our beautiful town, please attend with me next Saturday!  Attending the session does not commit you to anything - just come and listen and learn.  Hanover on March 8, 2025 10:30 AM John Curtis Free Library, 534 Hanover Street, Hanover MA 02339,   If you have any questions, or would like to discuss running for elected office, please reach out to me. Best regards, Ted Matthews Hingham Republican Town Committee Chairman hinghamrtc@yahoo.com

Local nomination papers for all of Hingham’s elected municipal positions will be available starting on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at 8:00 AM in the Town Clerk’s Office. The following elected positions will be on the May 3rd Annual Town Election ballot: Town Moderator                      1 Year Term            Select Board                             3 Year Term           Board of Assessors                   3 Year Term           Board of Health                       3 Year Term           Municipal Light Board             3 Year Term           Housing Authority                   5 Year Term           School Committee (3 seats)    3 Year Term           Planning Board                        5 Year Term           Sewer Commission                   3 Year Term           Recreation Commission           5 Year Term To become a candidate for local office, one must be 18 years of age, and be a registered voter in the Town of Hingham.  Each candidate shall file with the Town Clerk, prior to obtaining blank nomination papers, a statement containing the individual’s name, address and the Town Office for which the individual intends to be a candidate. Candidates must obtain the signatures of at least fifty (50) registered voters in the Town of Hingham. It is recommended candidates obtain 75 signatures. Completed nomination papers are due by Monday, March 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM.

The Town of Hingham Planning Board will hold a public hearing pursuant to M.G.L. Chapter 40A, Section 5 on Monday, January 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM. The purpose of the public hearing is to provide interested parties with an opportunity to comment on proposed changes to the Hingham Zoning By-Law. Full text of the proposed amendments is available in the Office of the Town Clerk and the Community Planning Department, Hingham Town Hall, 210 Central Street, Hingham, MA, and on the Planning Board: Proposed By-Law Amendments webpage. The meeting will be held remotely via Zoom: Dial-in number: 929-205-6099 or Website address: zoom.us/join , Meeting ID 846 7975 7835, Passcode: 676354.

Economic Development Conversation Monday December 9, 2024, 7-8:30 PM Town Hall Remote via Zoom https://zoom.us/join ID: 846 2667 0005 Passcode: 472082  Hingham’s Economic Development Strategic Plan will define Hingham’s competitive position, identify realistic development opportunities, and create implementation plans to drive new vitality into our commercial districts – downtown Hingham, Hingham Shipyard, and South Hingham. We welcome your input on your vision – or concerns – for each commercial district. Economic Development Strategic Plan Feedback Form Hingham’s Economic Development Strategic Plan (EDSP) will encourage low-impact, high-value economic development in its major commercial districts – South Hingham, the Hingham Shipyard / Route 3A Corridor, and Hingham Square.  EDSP results will help focus the town’s efforts to attract new investment, well-paying jobs, and long-term tax revenue – and protect Hingham’s high quality of life. The town completed major work imparting a foundation for economic development amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Hingham’s Master Plan , completed in 2021, envisions responsible development in its commercial districts that will bring economic growth and a more diversified tax base to Hingham in the future. The Plan sets broad goals and policies that an economic development strategy must balance, including: Goal 1 – Honor town character, with policies including prioritizing town historic buildings/resources, as well as open space/natural resources areas. Goal 5 – Support a vibrant & resilient local economy, with policies including supporting local businesses, attracting new enterprises, attracting non-residential & mixed-use development, and guiding development to desired locations.    Hingham’s Sustainable Budget Task Force issued its Final Report in January 2022. The Town Administrator established a six-member Sustainable Budget Task Force to develop options to facilitate a sustainable five-year Financial Forecast for FY23 through FY27 for the town.  “Sustainable” is determined as a financial forecast that uses realistic assumptions for revenue and expenditure growth that allow the Town to 1) provide services that meet residents’ expectations, and 2) meet ongoing expenditure obligations through regularly occurring revenues.  The Task Force identified economic development as offering Hingham’s strongest opportunities for generating new revenue.   The Task Force also identified economic development as being a long-term enterprise.  The EDSP will provide Hingham a path to new revenue opportunities that leverage the town’s strengths, protects its assets, and accounts for evolving business location strategies that were accelerated by the pandemic. The EDSP process will include stakeholder interviews, economic research, several community outreach sessions, and a survey.  Along the way, Hingham will define its competitive position and identify relevant post-pandemic business growth opportunities.  The work will result in implementation plans to focus economic development efforts in the Hingham Square, Shipyard/Route 3A corridor, and South Hingham commercial districts. Camoin Associates, an economic development consultancy, will provide technical assistance to town staff.  That work will include providing economic research, ensuring all stakeholders are heard, and building implementation plans that identify zoning changes and infrastructure improvements Hingham should make to support the town’s overall tax base.    The project will also include collaboration with the Town of Rockland around shared development interest in the Route 3 / Route 228 area.   The EDSP process will unfold over the coming months, with final deliverables available in early 2025. The town will use key deliverables – its competitive position, realistic post-pandemic opportunities, and commercial district implementation plans - to prioritize follow on efforts.  These may include, for each commercial district: Updating zoning  Targeted infrastructure improvements Marketing Hingham assets Targeted business development efforts Please direct any questions to Art Robert, Assistant Town Administrator / Operations, at  roberta@hingham-ma.gov .

Early Vote by Mail Vote by Mail Application Deadline: Tuesday, October 29 We recommend submitting earlier to provide enough time for ballots to be mailed out and received back by Tuesday, November 5.  Please be sure to sign your application. Vote by Mail Application Deadline to receive ballots returned by mail postmarked by November 5, 2024: From within the US: November 8 by 5:00 PM From outside the US: November 15 by 5:00 PM Early In-Person at Town Hall as Follows: Saturday, October 19, 2024, from 10:00AM to 4:00PM; Tuesday, October 22, 2024, from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM; Thursday, October 24, 2024, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM; Saturday, October 26, 2024, from 10:00AM to 4:00PM; Monday, October 28, 2024, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM; Tuesday, October 29, 2024, from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM; Wednesday, October 30, 2024, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM; Thursday, October 31, 2024, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM; Friday, November 1, 2024, from 8:00AM to 5:00PM. Election Day November 5, 2024 Voting Hours 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM at Voting Locations Precincts 1-4 - Hingham High School, 17 Union Street   Precincts 5-7 - Hingham Middle School, 1103 Main Street  Precinct 7A - Willard Square, Linden Ponds, 201 Linden Ponds Way Active Military/US Citizens Living Abroad If you are active military or US citizens living abroad, please contact us at townclerk@hingham-ma.gov to request information on absentee voting or visit: Military and Overseas Voters For more information, please click below Election & Voter Information | Hingham, MA