SUMNER – Redding Road residents Robert Clark and Walter Jasniewski spoke to selectmen Tuesday night concerning the use of Redding Road by all terrain vehicle riders.

The Woodstock ATV Club wants permission from selectmen to use Redding Road. Clark said the road is already being used at all hours of the night and that the AVTs come from all over the area. Noise is keeping people awake at night. The Sumner trails also are being destroyed by continued use during wet weather, he said.

No members of the Woodstock Club attended the meeting.

Selectmen will write a letter to law enforcement officials asking for more efforts to apprehend ATV riders who break laws.

Road Commissioner Jim Keach said he would be ditching along Fields Hill and Angel Libby roads this week to help with drainage and to keep gravel from washing into the road when it rains.

The state Department of Transportation inspected the old landfill and said the grass must be mowed and loam should be put down. Also, the neighboring well must be checked. Hartford and Sumner share the cost of the upkeep of the landfill.

A road committee was appointed consisting of James Durfee, Edwin Hinshaw, Lawrence Litchfield, George Jones III and Thomas Standard.

Marti Elkin announced that on Sept. 10, the town’s Emergency Management Committee is hosting a seminar on how Sumner can prepare for a possible pandemic flu outbreak. Speakers will be from Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway. The meeting will be held at the East Sumner Congregational Church. The public is invited.

In other matters, the emergency management director announced that largely through the efforts of Keach and Selectman Cliff McNeil, the town received an $18,377.85 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for road damage in the Patriot’s Day storm last April.

Also, Community Emergency Response Team secretary George P. Jones III has reported that on the weekend of Aug. 18 and 19, 60 CERT-trained individuals from Kennebec, Somerset, York and Oxford counties took part in additional training in helping their communities in case of a disaster. The local CERT team is qualified to operate an emergency shelter.