After more than three decades of active involvement behind the political scene, Lisa Hodgson Henson is throwing her hat into the ring for the Ocean County Board of Commissioners seat being vacated later this year when Commissioner Gerry P. Little retires. Little recently announced he would not seek a seventh term on the county board.

“We need someone from small business (to represent). I know what COVID did” to small business, said Henson, who co-owns and manages Island Realty in Surf City, a…