BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) – A once-popular restaurant is among 50 properties to be auctioned next month after the owners failed to pay property taxes for the past year.

The Common Ground Restaurant on Elliot Street – a focal point for the counterculture movement in southern Vermont during the 1970s – owes nearly $9,000 in back taxes and will be put up for auction on Oct. 7. That amount will rise to $9,155.38 because of extra penalties and costs.

Once a popular vegetarian and whole food eatery in downtown Brattleboro, the Common Ground fell on difficult financial times in the 1980s. The cooperative running the organization has since closed the restaurant and focused on hosting live shows to raise funds.

One day before the property was set to go up for auction in 2004, Jamaica resident Michael Marantz donated $5,677 to get the property off the tax sale list. A similar donation is not likely this year, according to Joshua Chambers, a board member and president of the collective.