LIVERMORE – Selectpersons have approved the liquor license application for the Carriage House Cafe, but there are two conditions attached to it.

Applicant Christine Wilkes-Weaver must abide by two conditions required by the Planning Board, that there be no backing onto the public street from the property and that seating be limited to a maximum of 25.

In other business, Road Commissioner Bert Bryant reported that his crew had smoothed the entrances from Route 4 to the Norton and Sanders roads.

The board approved recommendations from the Road Committee for treating the roads this winter and for construction next summer as follows:

• Treat roads with sand (with some salt added).

• Keep a supply of salt on hand to a salt/calcium mixture can be used in extreme cold and icing conditions.

• Hire a part-time driver/laborer for 20 hours a week, $10 per hour. This will provide the town with a permanent, reserve plow driver and reduce the number of hours the regular employees spend behind the wheel, the committee said. The intent is to add the new employee full-time next year to assist with routine repairs during the construction season.

• Decline David Small’s proposal for contract plowing.

• Do Sanders Road as next summer’s capital improvement project.

The board added one other item: a culvert replacement project on Hyde Road.

In other action, it was agreed to return to winter hours of operation at the transfer station, closing at 4 p.m. on Tuesdays from October through April.

A proposal for $1,825 from Northeast Paving was accepted for replacement paving on three driveways on Gibbs Mill Road, which were dug up during the summer’s construction.

The board also approved payment of $4,907.66 to Larry and Donna Bibeau of Robinson Road who had a new well drilled. It is thought that town blasting on the ledge of the road in 2002 may have affected the spring that fed their well and the one owned by Gerard and Pat Samson, who had similar problems being handled by the town.

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