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BURLINGTON â A Vermont Superior Court judge agreed Friday to conduct a trial in late January about whether municipal clerks must keep offices open to the public in need of access to government records during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nine Vermont municipalities â ranging from tiny Whiting in Addison County to bustling South Burlington in Chittenden County â are named in a lawsuit that maintains they are among a large number of communities that have made it impossible or difficult to get access to important land records required for real estate sales.
The plaintiff, the Connecticut Attorneys Title Insurance Co. in South Burlington, maintains that various lawyers need full access to the public records to complete research for real estate deals in communities throughout Vermont. The lack of access can block buyers and sellers and those trying to refinance.
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BURLINGTON â A Vermont Superior Court judge agreed Friday to conduct a trial in late January on whether municipal clerks must keep offices open to the public in need of access to government records during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nine Vermont municipalities â ranging from tiny Whiting in Addison County to bustling South Burlington in Chittenden County â are named in a lawsuit that maintains that they are among a large number of communities that have made it impossible or hard to get access to important land records required for real estate sales.
The plaintiff, the Connecticut Attorneys Title Insurance Company in South Burlington, maintains that various lawyers need full access to the public records to complete research for real estate deals in communities throughout Vermont. The lack of access can block both buyers and sellers and those trying to refinance.
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A ski resort, a dream and greed: How a $350M fraud happened in Vermont’s poorest region
April McCullum and Dan D Ambrosio, Burlington Free Press
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3:22 pm UTC Dec. 18, 2020
No one would have recognized the man with icy eyes and a military bearing who drove through rural Vermont in 2007 with his lawyer in tow.
In anonymity, Ariel Quiros brought his real estate attorney, Fred Burgess, on a tour of the mountainous area near the Canadian border that’s known as the Northeast Kingdom. Laced with lakes and expansive forests, the Kingdom, as locals call it, is a silent fortress of natural beauty, hardscrabble dairy farms, and people eager for a return to prosperity.