For a third consecutive meeting Aug. 10, Alna selectmen discussed resident Judith Fossel’s online advertising to rent a building on her Alna Road property.

The board cited a new letter it has sent Fossel. The letter accompanies materials the town sent Fossel in response to her recent Freedom of Access request for emails and other items relating the board’s discussions of her online ad at vrbo.com.

Selectmen raise a new issue in their Aug. 3 letter. They cite a second rental ad on the same website. “Now we see that buried in this second ad ... you state that, ‘The Barn is available for rent for the school year, September to June. Alna is School Choice town (children can go to school wherever they choose and town will pay state tuition).’ We are having trouble reconciling your statements to the press and the public, and to the three of us, with what you say in your second ad,”  the board writes.

The letter cites a quote from Fossel in a Wiscasset Newspaper article published online July 29. Fossel states in the story, “I in no way shape or form equated my rental to school choice.”

The letter reiterates selectmen’s stance that the town would not bear tuition costs. The board has maintained that a school year-only rental does not qualify as residency.

In a new interview Aug. 11, Fossel expressed doubt about that but said she is not going to keep the issue going by taking it up with selectmen at this time. The selectmen have wasted enough time on it, she said.

Fossel stood by the two ads, saying the tuition reference in one is just included as part of the definition of school choice and nothing more. She expects to keep both ads up online.