WOODSTOCK – After a six-month trial, selectmen decided Thursday to make the new office hours permanent. They are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The recommendation was made by Chairman Steve Bies.

“The new hours we have been using on a trial basis seem to be working out real well so I feel we might as well continue them permanently,” he said.

Board members Leon Poland and Judy Bennett agreed.

“The new hours are working very well, and my deputy and I are very happy with them as they are,” Town Manager Vern Maxfield said.

“As long as Vern and Rose (Frazier, deputy town clerk) are happy we’re happy,” Poland said.

Selectmen voted unanimously to authorize Maxfield and Road Foreman Randy Eastman to buy magnetic identification panels for the town trucks.

Maxfield said the panels would include the town’s logo and name and would be transferred to new trucks purchased in the future.

“They are interchangeable,” he said, “and aren’t that much more than the $75 per door we have had to pay in the past to have the lettering painted on.”

The panels for three trucks would run about $600, compared to $150 per truck previously.

Maxfield announced that nine notices on unpaid 2002 taxes would be sent Monday. If the delinquent taxes are not paid within 30 days the town will foreclose on the properties.

Maxfield said of the number of notices, “It’s pretty typical, and usually most of them are cleared up before the end of the period.”