PARIS — Mediation is ongoing between the town and plaintiffs suing over the ownership of Town Farm Road.
After a mediation session at Western Maine Community College that lasted more than five hours Tuesday, the session ended at about 2:30 p.m., Town Manager Phil Tarr said.
Tarr, two selectmen, former Selectman Raymond Glover and a lawyer represented the town. A lawyer and several plaintiffs represented the other side, Tarr said. A date to continue mediation hadn’t yet been set, he said.
The plaintiffs are residents of Town Farm Road and Town Farm Estates who want the town to take ownership of and responsibility for the road, which Paris residents voted to abandon at a 1967 town meeting.
The suit also asks for about $16,000 to pay for repairs to get the road up to town standards.
In 2004, town meeting voters approved an item to accept the road as a town road once certain repairs were completed, including replacing culverts, adding steel railings and reducing a curve.
The suit alleges those repairs were completed at a cost of $16,000, not including the labor of residents. In 2005, and later in 2009, selectmen voted against taking over Town Farm Road.
According to the suit, the plaintiffs “acted in their detriment based on representations made by the agents of the Town as well as the legislative body of the Town.”
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