By Kenneth Roberts,Special to the Sun Journal

TURNER – Voters at town meeting in April will be asked to approve renovating and adding to the Town Office.

Creating more work and meeting space at the office at routes 4 and 117 has been a controversial subject for at least four years. But a committee has recommended and the selectmen have now approved the site for its central location, among other features.

The warrant article likely will ask townspeople to add $100,000 to the $287,000 in reserve for the town office approved at previous meetings.

Selectmen also have instructed the town manager to continue developing an agreement with the Turner Arts Center Committee and the Leavitt Institute Building Committee for the use of two floors of the building for art exhibits and workshops. It will be presented at the town meeting.

In other business:

• The board voted to leave road postings to the discretion of Road Commissioner James Catlin, who said he would consult with his Town Roads Committee prior to postings. The vote came after a motion made by Ralph Caldwell on winter road postings was accepted and then withdrawn.

• A request from the Maine Department of Transportation for an exemption for its trucks to travel on posted roads was denied.

• The board approved a request from the Trust for Public Land to buy and preserve Turner Cove, 326 acres with one mile of Androscoggin River frontage. It is adjacent to more than 2,000 acres owned and managed by the state Department of Conservation, with 15 miles of trails and popular public access points to the river.

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