RUMFORD – Nine roads will be paved or resurfaced this summer and autumn. The town’s public works crew will be preparing some of these roads for paving as well as a couple of outside contractors, who will do the actual paving.

Selectmen on Thursday awarded the contract for the purchase of 3,150 tons of hot mix asphalt and 665 tons of binder mix to Pike Industries of Lewiston at a cost of $37.30 per ton.

Roads slated for construction and paving are:

• Knox Street, 28 feet by 600 feet between Lincoln and Strafford avenues.

• Cemetery Road, 20 feet by 970 feet at the South Rumford Road loop.

• Potato House Road, 20 feet by 310 feet, off Milton Road.

• Milton Road: 20 feet by 500 feet between the South Rumford Road and the Milton Township line.

Resurfacing is scheduled for:

• Wyman Hill Road, 20 feet by 5,400 feet between Route 108 and the Franklin Annex Road.

• Kennebec Street, 40 feet by 2,550 feet between Porter Avenue West and the dead end.

• Penobscot Street, 37 feet by 2,000 feet, between Porter Avenue West and the dead end.

• Hall Avenue, 38 feet by 650 feet, between Penobscot and Somerset streets.

• Swift Avenue, 37 feet and 880 feet, between Penobscot and Somerset streets.

The town will provide traffic control and sweeping for each project.
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