Tonight in Greenport

The Town of Greenport Planning Board is holding a public hearing tonight on the proposal to build a twenty-bed detox center--a medically supervised withdrawal and stabilization facility--on Merle Avenue, just off Route 66 in Greenport. 

The details of the proposal were reported yesterday by Amanda Purcell in the Register-Star: "Public hearing Tuesday on Greenport detox center."

When the subject of the proposal came up at last night's Common Council Police Committee meeting, Chief Ed Moore stated, "I've always said, for an addict, it's got to be easier to find help than to buy cheap drugs." Fourth Ward supervisor Linda Mussmann urged Moore and Mayor Kamal Johnson, who was present at the committee meeting, to attend the hearing to speak in support of the proposed facility.

The hearing begins at 7:30 p.m. at Greenport Town Hall, 600 Town Hall Drive, in Greenport.
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