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Legal action against owner of Corinth’s historic village store building forthcoming

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CORINTH — Amid a years-long saga, the town plans to sue the owner of an out-of-use building in East Corinth that officials call a hazard to the public and the environment. Town officials say the owner, Michele Walker, currently owes over $60,000 in fines — and counting — for failing to bring the property at 657 Village Road into compliance, particularly considering that it threatens the Tabor Branch of the Waits River, which runs directly behind the store. “There is tremendous community concern about having a building in this condition,” Selectboard member Stephen Devoto said Friday by phone. Devoto also told the Valley News Friday that the town has received no responses from Walker regarding the violations. Her contact information was not publicly available. East Corinth village was settled around 1783. Norm Collette, of the Corinth Historical Society, believes the Village Road building has been there since the late 1700s or early 1800s.

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