In a ballot measure, residents fought the plan to convert a former bed-and-breakfast site to a high-security detention facility. The effect of the non-binding vote remains to be seen.
An angry group of neighbors turned out in force to speak out against state plans to locate a secure youth treatment facility in town, saying it posed a safety risk to the community and the town lacked adequate resources and infrastructure to accommodate it.
NEWBURY, Vt. It was billed as a “listening session,” and the listeners got an earful.An angry group of Newbury residents turned out in force Tuesday evening to speak out against plans by the state to locate a secure youth treatment facility in town,.
Instead of dealing with the problem head-on, the state plans to pay millions to a private company to retrofit a B&B on a remote dirt road to serve six 12- to 17-year-old males, and then spend millions more each year to have that private company run the facility.