SEVEN FIELDS - The state Liquor Control Board continues to make it convenient for Butler County residents to buy wine and spirits.

The board this week announced 62 additional state liquor stores in the state will be open for business on Sundays, including the Wine and Spirits Shop in Moraine Pointe Plaza in Butler Township.

That will start Feb. 6, and Sunday hours for all the stores will be noon to 5 p.m.

This will be the second state store in the county to be open on Sundays. The other store already open on Sundays is at the Cranberry mall on Route 19 in Cranberry Township.

Sales at the Sunday stores will be reviewed after three months to see if sales goals are being met. If not, those stores will be closed and others opened for a three-month trial period, according to an LCB news release.

Gov. Ed Rendell signed legislation in December 2004 allowing the liquor board to open 25 percent of its 637 stores for business on Sunday. With the new openings, 126 stores, or 20 percent of the 637, will be open on Sundays.

Another board change in southwestern Butler County is the planned opening this fall of a full-service Premium Collection Wine and Spirits Store inside the Giant Eagle being built in Seven Fields.

The "store within a store" will be only the third one-stop shop in the state and the first in Butler County. The two others are in Allegheny County supermarkets.

The Giant Eagle site is on Seven Fields Boulevard, and the wine and spirits store will use more than 6,000 square feet inside the market.

"It will be different than in other states, with one shelf of the top-selling wines," Bill Epstein, a board spokesman said. "It will be a full-service store with a complete selection and accessories. It will actually be bigger than our average wine and spirits stores."

Epstein said the store will be staffed by liquor board workers.

He said the two other in-store shops, one on Camp Horn Road and one in Bridgeville, have exceeded their sales goals. Newman expects the same from the Seven Fields shop.

Thomas Smith, Seven Fields borough manager, looks forward to being part of a state innovation.

"This area is growing and we welcome the PLCB," said Thomas. "I am glad the state sees Seven Fields as a booming community that can accommodate the store."