PARIS – Selectmen approved a liquor and entertainment license for Playmaker’s Lounge at Market Square on Monday.

Brothers James and Jamie McClendon of Paris, who plan a sports bar with wide-screen TVs and pool tables, still must win approval of the state Liquor Commission for their plans.

About 20 residents attended Monday’s hearing.

The brothers also must receive approval by the Planning Board for their change of use of the space at 22 Market Square, which about seven years ago was the site of Pete’s Pool Hall, a bar known for its loud bands and rowdy patrons.

More recently, the space, owned by Mike Gilbert, was rented by a health club.

The Planning Board will consider the plans at Tuesday night’s meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. in Paris Town Hall.

The McClendons’ plans call for a bar with a lounge and pool tables on the first floor, with eventual expansion to the basement. There will be no bands, but there may be a disk jockey one night a week, Jamie McClendon said.

Selectmen’s approval came after two previous meetings on the liquor license application. In the first, the application by James McClendon was denied because of incomplete information on the application and pending charges he faced in Massachusetts for operating after suspension.

Selectmen wanted to make sure that the charges against McClendon would not bar him from holding a liquor license. They were able to dismiss that concern after McClendon appeared in Massachusetts court Monday, then drove back to Paris to attend the hearing.

A second liquor license application made in Jamie McClendon’s name, while the court case was still outstanding, was withdrawn after Selectman Bruce Hanson said the brothers were trying to circumvent the law by substituting one brother’s name for another.

At Monday’s meeting, residents said they were against the notion of having two bars in Market Square. When the Playmaker’s Lounge application was first denied May 24, selectmen approved a liquor license for the Smilin’ Moose Publyk House and Tavern at 10 Market Square, to be run by Dan and Kathleen DeLuca of Paris.

Kathleen DeLuca is the administrative assistant to the Paris Police Department.

“Do we really need another place that serves alcohol at Market Square?” asked Beth Hoover, who opened a dollar store next to the Playmaker’s space three weeks ago. “You already approved one,” she said.

Market Square Restaurant also serves alcohol, but closes at 8 p.m.

“We really don’t need one,” head Selectman Gerald Kilgore Jr. said of the prospect of another bar. But he said that if the applicants have the credentials, selectmen have no choice but to approve the application.

Hanson argued that the application should be denied based on the location. “The location of this business for what they want to do is not correct,” he said. His motion to deny the license was not seconded.

Selectman Nancy Record said residents could ask the Maine State Liquor Commission to hold a hearing on the application, as the commission has the power to approve or deny a license. But she indicated that violations of liquor laws typically come up after an establishment is up and running, not before. If the brothers don’t run a responsible operation, selectmen can act to revoke the license in a year, when it comes up for renewal, she said.