Trustees grapple with lot assessment

The Fredonia Village Board finds itself in a tangle over a 6.7-foot-wide strip of land that, it was recently discovered, nobody owns, but which the village wants to assess its board president for $22,000.

The dispute involves one of three lots Village President Don Dohrwardt bought in 1978 on South Milwaukee Street south of Wheeler Avenue and was recorded as being 276.7 feet deep. However, unbeknownst to Dohrwardt and everyone else, the seller recorded an amended deed seven months later showing that 6.7 feet of the lot did not belong to the property Dohrwardt had just bought.