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VOLUME 46, NO. 42
Police arrest murder suspect in library
Age-ing well
Man wanted in double homicide COURTESY PHOTO
An Age Well volunteer delivers a meal as part of the group’s healthy meal delivery program. Age Well just received a $100,000 grant. For more, see page 3.
or federal funds available, an exact cost remains elusive and the project “may amount to a $31 to $40 million bond vote for upgrades” at the facility, Tom DiPietro, the city’s public works director, said at the meeting.
The young man was sitting at a computer with headphones on in the South Burlington Public Library, oblivious to those around him, but he was soon approached discreetly by four non-descript men in plainclothes who had him under surveillance for hours. Logan Lavar Clegg, 26, a transient, was a person of interest in an unsolved double homicide in Concord, N.H., and was less than 48 hours away from boarding a one-way flight to Berlin, Germany, when he was arrested in South Burlington last Wednesday, police said.
See WASTEWATER on page 16
See CLEGG on page 17
Wastewater upgrade could exceed $30 million Aging infrastructure needs replacement, equipment lifespan reaches limit COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
South Burlington will have to take out a hefty loan if it wants to upgrade its aging infrastructure at the Bartlett Bay Wastewater Treatment plant, which would result in rate increases for the town’s water and wastewa-
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