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The decades-long battle over a buried oil tank

The 1988 sale of the Rainbow Inn appeared to many a clean break. Theresa Maderich, a self-made businesswoman, was selling the Clayton liquor store and bar to pursue a new opportunity. Larry Dalton, a bartender from a well-known political family, eager to have his own business, saw potential in the former 19th-century hotel.

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