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Freeport payout in land dispute doesn't end other rifts

The $3.5-million payout by Freeport Village to settle its part of a lawsuit over the historic Water Works property may have ended one long-standing grievance, but the conflict has rippled to other fronts.

The lawsuit, which alleged conspiracy to stifle development on the four-acre parcel and to seize it from developer Gary Melius, is still pending in federal court against 17 other defendants,...

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