CANTON – After listening to a complaint about illegal road work being done on Hodge Road, selectmen agreed 3-0 Wednesday night to seek law enforcement assistance to resolve the matter.
The issue involves a long-standing feud between neighbors Chris Dailey and Randy Gammon on the dirt road off Route 108, Administrative Assistant Kathy Hutchins said.
She said Gammon, the son of Canton Road Commissioner Craig Gammon, has been working on Hodge Road despite not being hired by the town to do so, which is illegal.
Neither Gammon attended Wednesday night’s meeting, but selectmen said that only the son had been asked to be there.
Selectman Rick Ray said the road is a public way from Route 108 to the end of Dailey’s property.
The board has asked Randy Gammon to cease work, and sent him a certified letter, which went unclaimed, Hutchins said.
Additionally, Dailey said he has a court order prohibiting Gammon from being within 100 yards of his property.
In a 1999 civil suit brought by Dailey and his wife, Maureen, against Randy Gammon and another neighbor, Betty Meader, Oxford County Superior Court Justice Thomas D. Warren ruled that Gammon could not do any road grading, snow plowing or any road maintenance activity within 100 yards of the Dailey property, unless it was done on Gammon’s property.
Dailey gave the board his fourth complaint, saying Gammon had again graded the road on Aug. 2.
“He has disobeyed you, and disobeyed the law in the first place,” Dailey said. “All I’m asking is for you to support the laws.”
Ray said he would contact Oxford County Sheriff Lloyd Herrick after the meeting and ask that Gammon be warned to stop working on the road.
“He gets arrested if he doesn’t stop” after being warned, Ray told Dailey.
“That’s what should have been done three meetings ago,” Dailey said.
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