A three-year-old dispute over access to Viking Cove ended last week with a settlement stating property owners Michael Wald and Sally Andersen may restrict access to their three-acre, beachfront property.

Resident Fred Einspruch sued Wald and Andersen in state Superior Court in July 2012, asking the court to recognize a public right of use on a section of beachfront owned by the couple.

Einspruch maintained that longtime use of the property by recreationists established a…