By CRAIG FREILICH

POTSDAM -- The Town of Potsdam will have $55,000 more for road work this summer than they expected.

The town is to receive $290,508 from the state DOT Consolidated Local Street and Highway Improvement Program (CHIPS) and $66,311 from the limited-term PAVE-NY program, but the town has been notified they will also be getting $55,507 from the Extreme Winter Recovery program.

“We have a couple of roads in mind,” said Highway Superintendent John Keleher. “We’ll have to go and check them out to see if they will fit that $55,000.” One road he has in mind is the Mcginnis Road east of the Village of Norwood.

Town roads that were already in the plans for work this season are:

• South Canton Road, paving 1.4 miles. “We did a mile last year. This year we’ll go to the Dayton Road,” Keleher said.

• Bagdad Road, about a mile.

• 1.2 miles of the Old Parishville Road

• seven-tenths of a mile of the Hatch Road, from the village line to about where Hyde-Stone is.

• 1.2 miles of the Ellis Road near West Potsdam.

Asphalt prices are running “about the same as last year,” Keleher said.

The current price for Type 3 binder is $38.50 per ton, and Type 7 top is at $41.81 per ton.

“Some years it’s been over $50,” when oil prices were higher, Keleher said.

“That’s allowed a lot of people to do a lot more, with the price so much lower than before,” he said.