HAWLEY — One-third of the town’s 251 registered voters cast a ballot at Monday’s special election, sending Bob MacLean to the Selectboard and Suzanne Crawford to the Hawlemont Regional School District School Committee.
The election replaced positions left vacant by Sally Rich, after she died midway through terms in both of these municipal offices.
MacLean is the new selectman, while Crawford accepted a write-in nomination for a seat on the Hawlemont School Committee. Crawford currently sits on the Mohawk Trail Regional School District School Committee.
The ballot had one race, for the Selectboard, which MacLean won over Courtney Ann Hoyt, 62 votes to 14. There were no write-in votes and no ballots were left blank.
Raised in Charlemont, MacLean has lived in Hawley since 1977. He served on the Selectboard from 2013 to 2017, at which point he decided not to run for re-election.
MacLean said he was interested in rejoining the board because he missed “knowing what was going in town, and just being a part of the town.
“I kind of missed doing it after I got out of it,” MacLean explained.
Hoyt is originally from Holyoke, and moved to Hawley in 2006, where she lives with her husband, Paul, and two young children, she said in a previous interview. She unsuccessfully run for Selectboard in 2016 in a race against the current Chairman Hussain Hamdan.
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