Nate Giarnese

A Freedom lake home owned by a man on trial in Massachusetts for a double murder burned to the ground Monday night, leaving authorities here piecing together suspicious circumstances surrounding a neighborhood love triangle that turned deadly last spring.

Club Motorsports Inc. kicked up another round of quarreling and head scratching in town last week when the developer handed over a new set of plans for apparently little more than a road up a hill.

Looking back three years, the reeling racetrack developer seems further than ever from an early promise to investors to succeed where other would-be track builders have failed.

The latest legal action adds fuel to a long-drawn firestorm of controversy in this small rural hotbed of politics, where feuding between neighbors, much of it over development, has become all-too-commonplace.

Ending a painfully long and expensive civil lawsuit revealing the ability of one man to long defy state wetlands rules, a judge ruled in favor of an Ossipee Lake housing association seething that their "steadfast" neighbor turned their cozy cove into a "toilet."