Town-gown conflicts are nothing new, but confrontations between local officials and private campuses over property taxes are ticking up amid the local municipal fiscal crisis, particularly in the northeast, which is packed with college towns, said Daphne Kenyon, a visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Mass.

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"The three people we lost were a part of the rich 50-year history of this theater and, more than that, were vital members of the Town and Gown family, " the organization said on its Web site.

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