VERGENNES, Vt. (WCAX) – Vergennes Mayor Chris Bearor says the city has officially signed an agreement with the state to host a long-planned juvenile justice facility.
We told you in April that a 14-bed facility was in the works to be built on state-owned land near Comfort Hill in Vergennes.
We expect to learn more about the agreement at the City Council meeting Wednesday night.
This will not be the city’s first time hosting a youth facility. The Weeks School operated as a youth detention center for over a century before closing in 1979. Since then, the campus has housed the Northland Job Corps, a federally-funded vocational training program.