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APRIL 13, 2001

Three Connecticut towns embroiled in a land dispute with the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation met on Thursday to draft a response to the tribe's offer to settle their eight-year-old disagreement.

The leaders of Ledyard, North Stonington, and Preston say one of their major concerns is trust land. The towns want the tribe to set an upper limit on the amount of land they want the federal government to take into trust.

In legal cases, the towns and the state argue the tribe doesn't have the right to have trust lands beyond the reservation as defined by the Mashantucket Pequot Settlement Act of 1983.

The tribe has given the town a list of the current lands it is seeking. Of the 440 acres, the tax value on land in two towns would be $330,000 annually.

The tribe is the biggest taxpayer in the three towns.

Get the Story:
Property tribe wants to add yields $330,000 in towns' taxes (The New London Day 4/13)

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