SANGERVILLE – Representatives of the Piscataquis County Economic Development Council told selectmen Tuesday that the organization would help market the local elementary school that will be closed next year.

Residents in Sangerville voted earlier this month to close the Abbie Fowler School as part of a SAD 4 reorganization plan. The pupils will be educated at the McKusick School in Parkman and at the Guilford Primary School.

Selectmen authorized Mark Scarano, the economic development group’s business development director and Director Tom Lizotte to get the specs of the building and to pursue any leads for the building.

The selectmen were told that a party already was interested in the building, but did not identify the business, according to Town Manager Martin Puckett. Since the school is located in a residential section – the town has no zoning – selectmen are looking for a light manufacturer for the building, he said.

Because the town will have its own vacant building next year, it is not likely the town will join a community effort to develop a speculative building somewhere in the county, Puckett said.

The Piscataquis County Economic Development Council is working with communities in the region to obtain funding to construct a speculative building in the county to help provide jobs.

In other business, the board voted Tuesday to become online agents for the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s new licensing system.

As participants in MOSES, the Maine Online Sportsman’s Electronic System, the town will be able to provide full service to customers and will be able to issue a larger variety of licenses. Instead of writing out a license by hand, agents for the department’s licensing division will simply type the licensing information into a computerized program that is linked to the state department.

The software for the program will be provided by the state, but the town will need to connect to the Internet, which was authorized Tuesday. Some of the selectmen initially were not in favor of the MOSES program because they were told the cost would be $5,000. Since then, however, board members learned that the cost to the town would be minimal since the town already has a computer and printer.

The new program will actually save agents time filling out paperwork and will improve service to customers, Vesta Billing, Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife director of licensing and registrations and project manager for MOSES, said when the program was proposed.