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STRONG — Selectmen on Tuesday night discussed the Maine Department of Transportation’s planned Route 4 reconstruction and its impact on a town road.
 
Eliminating the sharp curve at the Sandy River bridge, where the highway continues north from Farmington to Avon and Phillips, will mean truckloads of material will be removed.
 
Board of Selectmen Chairman Mike Pond said he talked to Gilbert Reed, who lives on Chandler Road, and he will accept the estimated 60,000 cubic yards of material on his lot about a mile from Route 4.
If E.L. Vining & Son gets the contract to do the work on Route 4, Pond said, the dead-end Chandler Road should be protected from heavily loaded trucks.
 
Pond said the road was never designed for heavy traffic, and the Vining trucks could make as many as five or six trips a day on it.
 
“We can put a weight limit on that road any time we want, according to Maine Municipal Association,” Pond said. “We could post that road to 40,000 pounds.”
 
Selectmen agreed to contact MMA for advice on drafting a proposal to set a weight limit.  
 
In other matters, selectmen:
 
* Agreed to ask Signworks to start building three town entrance signs and a library sign;
 
* Approved paying up to $3,000 for a lawn mower to replace one in poor condition. Custodian Tonia Boyd will do the mowing;
 
* Renewed the town’s 10-year Time Warner Cable contract. The company pays the town a fee based on the number of customers; and
 
* Agreed to ask school board candidate Jackie Sniadecki to meet with them before they approved her appointment to the seat vacated by Loretta Deming in February. 
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