After settling a dispute over colorful doughnuts painted atop Leavitt’s Country Bakery, town leaders in Conway, although admitting no wrongdoing, will go back to the drawing board when it comes to local sign and public art rules.

A judge ruled in May that the town’s enforcement of a sign ordinance was unconstitutional when leaders tried to force Sean Young to take down a mural at his bakery in 2022. A month earlier, Conway voters had passed a public art ordinance at Town Meeting to regulate such displays on commercial properties.

Now, not only will the doughnut and muffin mural stay, but the public art ordinance will go, according to the settlement reached in late October.

“The Town shall recommend that Conway’s voters rescind the Public Art Ordinance at the 2026 Town Meeting,” accord

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