{"id":4388,"date":"2011-06-21T15:54:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T19:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2011-06-21T15:55:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T19:55:05","slug":"tupper-lake-sunmount-facility-to-close-by-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/06\/21\/tupper-lake-sunmount-facility-to-close-by-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Tupper Lake Sunmount facility to close by 2014?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioner Courtney Burke, head of the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, was on the public radio program Capital Pressroom today.<\/p>\n<p>Host Susan Arbetter asked her point-blank whether the Sunmount facility &#8212; one of the region&#8217;s biggest employers &#8212; is likely to close.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s Burke&#8217;s answer:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re seeking to close all of our developmental centers by the end of 2014.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She described the change as part of a system-wide effort to close large developmental centers around New York state, moving people into the &#8220;least restrictive&#8221; setting possible.<\/p>\n<p>Sunmount has long been one of the primary employers in Tupper Lake.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/thecapitolpressroom.org\/the-capitol-pressroom-for-june-21-2011\/\">Hear Burke&#8217;s comments here.<\/a> And we&#8217;ll have more information during All Before Five this evening and on the 8 O&#8217;clock Hour tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioner Courtney Burke, head of the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, was on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}