FARMINGTON — Curb and paving work on Pleasant Street behind Meetinghouse Park is set to resume next week.

The job started last month but work stopped when granite paving could not be found.

“We chased all over the state” for granite curbing, Town Manager Richard Davis told selectmen Tuesday.

Due to the economy, quarries are not producing, Public Works Director Denis Castonguay said Wednesday.

The town will use paved curbing instead.

The temporary paving will prepare the street for the winter then the work will resume next spring, Davis told the board.

The work includes widening the street by 10 feet, creating better parking behind the park. The street line will move and curbing will be closer to the park . Utility poles across the street have been moved to provide 3 feet for a sidewalk on the west side of the street.

Work to add a storm drainage basin and drainage pipe started in mid-August. Completion of the work was expected by mid-September.

Vehicles were prohibited from parking behind the park starting Aug. 14.

“That is still in effect until the work is finished,” Castonguay said.

The conditions of other town roads were discussed when Selectman Dennis Pike passed out a letter from a Horn Hill Road resident who claimed the condition of the road was “horrendous.” The road is a dead-end street off Bailey Hill. Recent rains have caused more havoc with the road.

Ditching and resurfacing was scheduled to begin on the road around the first of August but rains have also put the town crew behind, Castonguay said.

“It’s on our list,” he said. He expects to begin work on the road next week.

Davis told the board timing for the resident request was good. The road should improve within the next few weeks.

“We’re not ignoring requests,” he said of the town roads. The problem lies with the present economy and a lack of funding to do the work needed, he explained.

In other business, Davis said he is meeting with trustees from Henderson Memorial Baptist Church and the Pierce House about an idea to create a walkway through the back of the two properties creating a shortcut from the municipal parking lot to Academy Street. Davis is working with the University of Maine at Farmington on the idea which puts a walkway across from the entrance to the Emery Community Arts Center. He expected to report on his findings at the next board meeting.

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