RUMFORD – Selectmen agreed to change the number of spaces on Lowell Street that permit all-day parking. They denied a second request to expand two-hour to all-day parking on a portion of Canal Street.

At the Oct. 7 meeting, the board designated several spaces at the rear of Hotel Harris on Lowell Street as six-hour parking. Those were changed to all-day. The remaining spaces were limited to two-hour parking.

Dennis Marquis, manager of the local Central Maine Power Co. office, asked that several spaces that have traditionally allowed all-day parking, then were changed to two-hour parking, be returned to all-day.

“This is a real hardship for us,” he said of the eight employees who staff the CMP office. “We want to keep parking the way it was.”

He said that because his employees must sometimes attend emergency situations, their personal vehicles should be parked near the office.

Businessman Ron Theriault said CMP has land that could be used for employee parking.

The board decided to leave all parking on Canal Street at two hours.