LIVERMORE – Selectpersons appointed Donald St. Laurent of Canton as the new Highway Department foreman, effective on or about July 15, select board administrative assistant Kurt Schaub said Wednesday.

Foreman Moe Laverdiere is retiring at the end of August after eight years on the job. His last day working will be sometime in mid-July, Schaub said.

St. Laurent, who lives about seven minutes from the highway garage, is a member of the Livermore Highway Department. The select board made a decision to appoint from within the department after discussing the matter with Laverdiere and then interviewed St. Laurent in an executive session on Monday, Schaub said.

St. Laurent worked for the town from 1997 to 2000 and then left, and returned in January 2003. During his time away, he was a self-employed woodworker and a plow driver for the town of Canton.

St. Laurent is a graduate of Livermore Falls High School and Oxford Hills Technical School, Schaub said.

“We are really looking forward to working with him and having him as our foreman,” he said.

He will be paid $17.48 an hour. He is currently paid $14.08 an hour.

In another matter, the select board discussed residents’ requests for the town to establish a mass gathering ordinance and adult entertainment ordinance.

The Planning Board agreed Tuesday to hold a work session on the ordinances at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, at the town office, Schaub said.

Even if you have a mass gathering ordinance you cannot prohibit this type of event from taking place, but you can establish certain standards such as health, safety and traffic, he said.

“I think it is important to note that the Woodstock concert event organizers are working with the town, law enforcement and others to comply with standards laid out in an ordinance currently being used by another rural Maine community,” Schaub said.

The Heroes of Woodstock concert, expected to draw thousands of concert-goers, will be held on Sunday, Aug. 9, at Barnyard All Terrain park on Route 108.