The owner of a Braintree gas station and convenience store says he won’t appeal the town’s decision to deny him a license to sell beer and wine, even though he doesn’t agree the sales would hurt the “spiritual and educational activities’’ of the church across the street.

“I really want to be a good neighbor, and if I thought for a minute that what I was doing would be detrimental to the youth or anything in the church, I wouldn’t attempt it,’’ said George Jreige, who owns Mobil on the Run, at the corner of Elm and Adams streets.

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