The Republic
24 August 2011
COLCHESTER, Vt. — Colchester residents are going to decide whether the Vermont community should buy a 26-acre summer camp on Lake Champlain’s Malletts Bay from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington.
The church is selling the property to help pay the settlement from a series of priest sexual abuse cases.
Townspeople will vote Oct. 4 whether to buy the property for $4.5 million.
On Tuesday, the town sponsored a barbecue at the site to let people see what could become town property.
Katie Leary tells the Burlington Free Press (http://bit.ly/qWaTpF ) she’ll vote yes. She says she wants to see a family-friendly park on the lake.
But Brian McCarter says his taxes are already too high. He says it’s not the right time for the town to invest in land.