Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on June 2 at the Longmeadow Community House, 735 Longmeadow St.
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LONGMEADOW — Longmeadow’s annual town election is on the horizon and the decision making for voters shouldn’t be too difficult this time around.
Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on June 2 at the Longmeadow Community House, 735 Longmeadow St.
Voters must be registered by 5 p.m. on May 22 if they aren’t already. Absentee in-person voting will be from May 19-29 during business hours at the Longmeadow Municipal Offices, 231 Maple Road.
Early in-person voting will also be at the town offices from May 26-29, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 30.
Select Board member Vineeth Hemavathi has an open path for reelection as the only candidate in the Select Board race. He joined the board in 2023 and seeks a second three-year term.
The School Committee has three candidates for three seats. School Committee member Nicole Choiniere is the candidate seeking reelection on a three-year term. Choiniere joined the committee in 2020.
Matt Casale is looking to join the committee and currently serves on the Energy and Sustainability Committee. Bisrat Abebe is the third candidate and has experience in the town’s Coalition for Racial Justice. He also interviewed for a vacancy in the School Committee in 2024 but was not selected for the position.
Planning Board member Antonietta Mongillo is seeking reelection for a five-year term. Mongillo was appointed to the board after interviewing alongside five other candidates in September 2025 to fill the vacancy of former board member Walter Gunn.
The ballot does feature one question regarding the fiber project, which was not approved by residents at the Annual Town Meeting on May 12.
The question states, “shall the town of Longmeadow be allowed to exempt from the provisions of Proposition two-and-one-half, so called, the amounts required to pay for the bonds issued in order to construct of the initial phases of a townwide fiber network, including the payment of all costs incidental and related thereto?”
Town Manager Lyn Simmons told Reminder Publishing that if the ballot question passes, the Select Board can decide whether to call a Special Town Meeting to vote on the borrow authorization again, to include a borrowing authorization at the fall Special Town Meeting or not act on the ballot question at all.
