If Sunday’s casino town hall meeting were a sports event, the name of the game would have been overtime.
The two-hour window for the meeting at the Petersburg Public Library opened 90 minutes wider than planned, thanks to the depths of the five presentations and the line of residents that snaked down the right side of the auditorium and almost to the back.
The auditorium was filled to capacity as more than 200 people opted to take it in. At one point, more seats had to be added, and the library opened up an adjacent meeting room to handle the overflow.
No one seemed to complain, though, as attendees soaked up the information in the first and only opportunity where all five casino bidders would be on hand to make their cases.
