Parents, kids and booze: Experts warn that it’s not a good idea to condone teen drinking at home. AUGUSTA — A government survey finds growing awareness of teen alcohol use in Maine. The Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services found a 12 percent increase from 2009 to 2013 in the number of parents […]
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Too risky, too young
New survey highlights troubling trends among western Maine teens, tweens One in five western Maine middle school students has seriously thought about committing suicide. The same students were more likely than peers across the state to admit to having huffed paint, smoked marijuana, had sex, gambled or driven with someone drunk or high. In Oxford […]
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Survey shows troubling trends among Western Maine teens, tweens
One in five western Maine middle school students has seriously thought about committing suicide. The same students were more likely than peers across the state to admit to having huffed paint, smoked marijuana, had sex, gambled or driven with someone drunk or high. In Oxford County, middle-schoolers were least likely to say they felt like […]
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Brunswick teens who found, turned in $800 split the cash after no one claims it in a year
BRUNSWICK — Three best friends were shopping at a Maine Street consignment shop a little more than a year ago when, right on the sidewalk in front of them, they found $800 in cash. “We were shopping at Estilo in Brunswick,” said Rose Edwards, 17, of Brunswick, “and we had just left the shop, and […]