Abuse claimants fight Vermont Catholic Church plan to sell Rice Memorial High to supporters

The state’s largest religious denomination, now in bankruptcy court, wants to save the school in South Burlington from potential liquidation by privately offering it for $4.3 million — 14% of the campus’s $30.5 million appraised value. Creditors in the Vermont Roman Catholic Diocese’s Chapter 11 financial reorganization case are fighting a church plan to sell Rice Memorial High School to…