LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen on Tuesday night unanimously granted permission for the third annual Sled-In this month.

Bob Berry, head of the Downtown Business Group which sponsors the event, said he expects about 1,000 people to attend. He asked for police presence because of the number of people.

It will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, at the town recreation field. Proceeds will benefit the area’s three snowmobile clubs.

New this year will be events for teenagers such as a scavenger hunt and a Battleship game. Popular activities will include ice skating, a snow sculpture contest, raffles, a bonfire, sleigh rides and a giant tent for foods.

The Betterment Group is also looking for raffle donations and prize money for the snow sculpture contest, along with loans of a public address system, tables and chairs and snow fencing.

Anyone who has items to lend or donate may call him at 931-9931.

He also asked for partial closure of the Foundry Road.

Berry said the Sled-In began two years ago with only a couple of hundred people in attendance and grew to more than 600 last year.

In other matters Tuesday, selectmen unanimously voted to send a letter of support for the Androscoggin County Budget Committee who opposed county commissioners’ setting their own compensation higher than the committee’s recommendation. Many towns in Androscoggin County have been asked for, and supplied, such a letter.

“I’m glad we took a stand,” Selectman James Collins said.

Public works foreman Bill Nichols said his crew is continuing the cleanup from the estimated 42 inches of snow the town received during the past three storms.

He said 763 gallons of diesel fuel were used by the two snowplows that ran 24 hours a day during the storms, along with 250 yards of sand and 50 tons of salt.

The department is continuing to haul away snow piles, he said, and intersections should be cleared during the next week or so.

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