Starting Thursday, Hingham Patch will hold live chats with Hingham officials, political candidates and business owners.

The live chats will give the people of Hingham the opportunity to ask questions to people they may want to know more about in their community.

On Thursday, Hingham Patch will hold its first live chat with State Senate candidate, Steve May at 10 a.m. Readers can go to Patch.com and ask May a question during the hour-long chat and May will answer it instantly.

May is a Hull Democrat, who is looking to challenge the incumbent State Senator , Bob Hedlund. Before that he will challenge Genevieve Davis in the Democrats’ September primary.

May is the president of the Forum On Genetic Equity.  To learn more about him, come to the Hingham Patch home page on Thursday at 10 a.m. and ask him a question.