Select Board approves multiple liquor licenses, lien releases and donations; clerk given limited administrative authority

WELLS, Maine — The Wells Select Board on June 17 approved a slate of routine but consequential administrative actions, including six full-time liquor licenses, multiple quick-claim deed releases tied to tax foreclosures, and donations to the police department and Founders Park Community Center.

The board’s votes covered a group of liquor license public hearings — including permits for Veggie Life LLC (132 North Berwick Road), Hometown Pizza (1517 Post Road), Wells Beach Lobster Pound, Spinnakers (139 Post Road) and Agunca River Inn (17 Post Road) — and a set of municipal property-lien releases and donations. Most motions passed unanimously; the Agunca River Inn license was approved with one abstention.

The approvals included administrative delegations to the town clerk to allow short extensions for expired liquor licenses awaiting Select Board review, to affix the clerk’s signature on letters to the state licensing department for licenses already approved by the board, and to sign applications for special catering/off-premises permits when applicants hold a current state liquor license. Town officials said those delegations are intended as administrative streamlining to help businesses meet growing state requirements.

Board members also approved the release of a municipal deed from Kevin G. Roselle and Jennifer A. Roselle tied to a drainage project on Littlefield Road; authorized a separate quitclaim deed to release a lien on a property that completed its buyback period; and…