SUMNER – Selectmen listened Tuesday night to Buckfield Town Manager Glen Holmes’ request for a meeting to discuss the feasibility of Buckfield, Hartford and Sumner combining town office and road work.

The Sumner town office is currently open for a portion of five days while Hartford is open a portion of four days. Buckfield is open five-and-one-half days.

Holmes said there are several ways to combine office duties, such as rotating the closings on certain days, registering cars and selling fishing licenses.

The possibility of closing one or two days and staying open an evening instead of being open on Saturdays is another option.

Holmes also said Buckfield would like to consider consolidating winter and summer road work to save money.

Roads rank No. 2, behind schools, for the biggest part of the town budgets. Hebron and Minot will also be invited to the meeting with Hartford and Sumner on March 3.

In other news, the board appointed Edwin Hinshaw and Mary Ann Haxton to the Budget Committee, Wilda Dunham to the Arrabine Dunn Emergency Relief Fund, Henri Arsenault to the Scholarship Committee, Lana Pratt and Clayton Schneider to the Ordinance Update Committee and Lana Pratt, Edwin Hinshaw, Clayton Schneider and Henri Arsenault to the Comprehensive Pan Implementation Committee.

The board needs members on the Scholarship Committee and the Board of Appeals.

Road Commissioner Jim Keach said cleaning up after a storm is made more difficult because many people plow snow into or across the roads.

Residents are reminded that doing so is illegal.

Selectman Cliff McNeil said they had spent more on fuel and food than usual out of the General Assistance Fund.