Residents meet to discuss group home in Navassa

The fight continues to keep a group home from moving into a residential neighborhood in Navassa.

Residents met again Saturday night to protest the proposition of a level-four group home in town.

One of the residents asked a lawyer to attend to consult residents on their next step.

“We know with an entity like this going in, the citizen should have been notified. We do not think it was by choice, we think it was deliberately,” said Ella Beatty.

Town council already approved it. Residents say it’s not necessary, pointing out there’s already the Strategic Behavioral Health Center in Leland, which offers several kinds of treatment to kids ages 12 to 17.