By Nick P. Angelides,Special to the Sun Journal

GREENE – After 16 years of headaches, the residents of Greene’s Deer Run subdivision may finally get what they have been seeking for more than a decade.

Some residents of Deer Run paid a visit to the Board of Selectmen two weeks ago in an effort to get their roads accepted by the town. At that time, the board agreed to place the roads on the agenda for the annual town meeting, but would not recommend their acceptance.

The board, however, changed its position Monday when Mark Randall, owner of M&J Development and phases II and III of the Deer Run subdivision, stepped forth and offered to pay for repairs to a washed-out section of Fawn Lane to make the road fall within town road standards.

Voters will decide at the town meeting whether to accept phase I of the project, which encompasses about 1,000 feet of Deer Run Road, as well as phases II and III, which include the remainder of Deer Run along with Fawn Lane, Big Buck Court and Stag Hollow.

If phases II and III pass as stated in Article 31 of the town meeting warrant – changing the two sections of the subdivision from a private road to a town road – $2,610 will be pulled from an escrow account funded by Randall to fix the road.

“I am just trying to put a very sore subject to rest,” Randall said. “Hopefully the article will pass; we have a lot of followers coming out to the meeting to back this issue.”

Although the annual town report states that the town does not back the article, the selectmen said they would make it publicly known at the meeting that with the creation of this escrow account, the town is now in favor of phases II and III.

This would account for about 1 mile of new road maintenance for the town.

Deer Run resident and president of Four Points Surveying, Don Dostier, said flyers were passed out to all subdivision residents, and he believes the meeting’s turnout will be large.

“This is a big issue to a lot of people; there are 24 households in our two phases alone,” he said. “I’m hoping it passes and we get our happy ending.”

The board said that if Article 31 does not pass, that the money will be returned to Randall.

The annual town meeting’s first part will start at 1 p.m. Friday, which will entail the selection of a moderator for Saturday’s meeting and balloting for the two open selectmen’s positions and one open SAD 52 board position.

The main meeting will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Greene Central School, and will continue until all matters are voted on.

After his latest three-year term, Selectman Maurice Levasseur has officially retired from his role as selectman and has opted not to run for re-election.

“This is the greatest board I have ever been on and I will truly miss our Monday night sessions,” he said before stepping away from the desk for the last time.

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