BETHEL – Patrons of the Funky Red Barn won’t be playing horseshoes in the parking lot or drinking alcohol outside anytime soon.

Bethel selectmen voted Tuesday to revoke their July 14 endorsement of the Bethel bar’s liquor license amendment, according to Town Manager Scott Cole.

That amendment sought permission to allow outside horseshoe pits to be created in the bar’s parking lot at 19 Summer St.

Funky Red Barn owner Barry J. Hallett Jr. simply withdrew his request for the seasonal extension of his licensed premises and the use of horseshoes, according to his Aug. 27 letter to Cole and Maine’s Liquor Licensing and Inspection Division.

“The Funky Red Barn had asked for an amendment to its liquor license regarding a definition of its premises stating where people can drink (alcohol),” Cole said Tuesday afternoon by phone.

One abutter, Mark Egeberg, objected to the amendment, calling it a “change of use” that required site plan review, according to an Aug. 13 letter from Egeberg’s lawyer, Dana C. Hanley, to Bethel Code Enforcement Officer Robert Folsom.

Egeberg, through Hanley, asked Bethel planners to determine applicability of the town’s site plan review, which planners started at their Aug. 27 meeting. However, because Hallett withdrew his request, planners unanimously tabled the matter, according to Planning Board Chairman Allen Cressy.

In other business, selectmen accepted a bid of $41,740 from Bedard Excavation of South Paris to replace 700 feet of concrete sidewalk on the easterly side of Broad Street and install a municipal subsurface drainage system along the street.

Cole said the board received three bids for the project, of which Bedard’s was the lowest. The other bids were $49,050 from Jack Cross Excavation and $71,280 from D. A. Wilson, two Bethel contractors.

Because his bid was one of the contracts, Selectman Jack Cross recused himself from the meeting to sit in the audience and watch the proceedings, Cole said.

Regarding Bedard’s bid, Cole said selectmen accepted the base bid of $29,900 to replace the sidewalk and authorized the addition of $11,840 for the drainage system work.

Cole said construction is expected to start around Monday, Sept. 22, and last for two to three weeks.