Drug treatment center breaks ground

Representatives of the City of Lebanon, the county, Samaritan Health Services and others break ground in a ceremony Tuesday afternoon, June 11, for a future facility in Lebanon at the corner of Main and Tangent streets that will treat individuals with substance use disorder.

Samaritan Treatment and Recovery Services (STARS) will be a residential 16-bed treatment facility off Santiam Highway near Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital.The facility will serve adults throughout Oregon with serious substance use…