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Argyle residents ask Penobscot County to enforce winter‑maintenance contract after repeated sanding and plowing complaints
Summary
An Argyle Township resident delivered a multi‑page petition on Jan. 14 asking Penobscot County to enforce or revoke a winter road maintenance contract, citing unsafe conditions, missing sanding and oversized aggregate. Commissioners said they will review the contract with the Unorganized Territories director.
An Argyle Township resident identified in the record as Lanzong presented a multi‑page petition to the Penobscot County Commissioners on Jan. 14, asking the county to enforce—up to revocation—an existing winter road maintenance contract with the Rezno company for Route 116 and Argyle‑Edinburg Road.
Lanzong read petition language asking that the roads "be properly plowed, sanded, salted within reasonable time after, during, and between each storms and ice storms," and described repeated problems: no visible salt residue, sanding limited to a single lane, delays when equipment was reportedly in repair, and what he described as improperly large aggregate on the roadway. "We have never had a single area of that road melted…
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