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Two found dead on public walkway along the mouth of the Town River near Southern Artery
– News about Quincy Massachusetts covered by Quincy Quarry News and featuring an image from readingeagle.com
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Two said to be homeless people were found dead by an associate Thursday morning on a public walkway along the mouth of the Town River and which also abuts the local Nissan dealership.
The deceased, a female and a male, are said to have been known to those involved with the homeless locally.
While toxicology reports have yet to be completed, the working assumption at this point is that the deceased died via drug overdoses.
Reports indicate a recent spate of local overdoes and one can thus only assume that the deceased’s final score was a bad bag.
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Very sad, considering there are empty buildings on Long Island available to use for substance rehabilitation services but the City of Quincy is fighting Boston’s approved plans to rebuild its bridge so they can once again help people.
Meanwhile, our mayor quickly approved opening a recreational marijuana dispensary even though marijuana has been proven to be a gateway drug.
Your kids do not matter to this mayor! Koch only cares about his big bucks campaign fund “donors.”
Ironically, the recreational pot shop is in the same part of Quincy where this couple overdosed and lost their lives.
10 facilities could be built and/or refurbished with the money that it will cost to build that bridge. It would take less time too. It’s amazing how people think that LI and only LI can save lives. There are empty state facilities all over Massachusetts. Quincy has been overly generous in serving the homeless and drug addicted. Opening LI won’t cure our social ills -only make some social observers feel better.
Holy Moly, Rose Louise Hovick died in 1970 but has been reincarnated as an employee of the City of Quincy! I know this because only a dumb-ass city of Quincy employee would leave such a stupid Koched-up comment.
I don’t work for the city but if they need me I can supply my own pasties.
It is amusing how Tokyo Rose and Mayor Koch know best how Mayor Wu and the City of Boston should spend their tax dollars and where Boston should operate its substance abuse treatment facilities!
Mayor Wu should fire back and veto Tommy’s one hundred and fifty-three million dollar police station, twenty-million dollar dog kennel, and proposed sixty-million dollar plus parking garage!
Quincy could build over one hundred drug rehabilitation facilities with the money saved from just those three wasteful and Koched-up vanity projects.
This article is about how two more people overdosed and died in Quincy. So, Koch and his dumb but loyal employees have no right to tell the City of Boston how or where to treat patients for substance abuse.
Are you confusing me with Tokio Rose? That would be the correct spelling but that’s not me. Burlesque is my thing. Not to add to your confusion, as a tax taxpayer, I have every right to have a say in how my tax dollar is spent. The bridge might technically be a Boston project, but there will certainly be state and fed money involved.
Ms Hovick,
Please offer up ten locations in Boston where drug rehab services could be located.
So what also for the fact that Long Island offers a ready, bucolic, and isolated setting for people to endeavor to recover from the ravages of addiction.
That and how about also offering up a valid reason why the City of Boston should not opt to more readily utilize its very valuable property that is Long Island?
For example, make it easier as well as safer for the many inner-city youth who go to summer day camp at Long Island’s Camp Harbor View as well as participate in other year-round programming offered via the camp so as to keep them on the right path.
Tom, Just in Boston, there is the Shattuck, a closed nursing home that opened just for testing for Covid in Roslindale and an old MDC building near Longwood. Statewide. there is a closed hospital in Lakeville and an old MDC building in Everett in an industrial park that has other abandoned buildings.
Don’t know what happened in the meatpacking district but there were lots of buildings and land and centrally located. Boston Globe was abandoned for years. Wouldn’t need a bridge to get to that either. As for a summer camp, local church groups held camps for inner-city kids for years in Hull. There are lakes and campground facilities all over the state that could be used without building a bridge.
If you need a bucolic setting to recover from addiction, go on Dr Phil.
Rosie,
The Shattuck Hospital belongs to the state and plans are already in the works for repurposing the site as the building is a worn-out POS that isn’t worth renovating.
As for the old MDC building in Longwood, surely one of that neighborhood’s hospitals already has plans for the site.
Next, up, both Lakeville and Everett would entail longer schleps out of Boston than is Long Island.
Also note that the goal is to see addicts moved out of the Mass & Cass area and thus setting up shop in the meatpacking district is a non-starter.
Further, Camp Harbor View is already built as well as is a lovely facility whereas Hull is — well — both Hull as well as would be a long bus ride for Boston day campers.
As for the old Globe building near the JFK Red Line station, it was sold and is now well along to being redeveloped.
And finally, Boston already owns Long Island free and clear whereas all of your proposals would entail first buying property BEFORE then facing building costs.
Cry about it!