SUMNER — Selectmen agreed Tuesday to ask Janice Lowe for a quitclaim deed for land the town wants to buy and use for sand and salt storage.

Lowe’s husband, Clifford, was the town’s plowing contractor for years and allowed the town to keep its sand and salt piles on his property on Route 219.

After Lowe died this year, Maynard Farrar bought the property, which is still used by the town to store its winter sand and salt supply.

However, it was discovered that one piece of the 38-acre parcel was not conveyed from Janice Lowe to Farrar because of an apparent oversight.

The town wants to buy the entire 38 acres and build a sand-salt shed. Selectmen voted Tuesday to buy a shed and fuel tank on the property for an additional $5,000, if the town gets the land.

Town officials will check with environmental officials on the legality of the site because of the fuel tank. The site is grandfathered for sand and salt storage.