Keeping Kids Off Drugs

Kent residents worried about purposed teen alcohol treatment center
KENT — Concern has grown “exponentially” in town since the CEO of a Connecticut alcohol treatment center spoke before the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission in May about opening a branch of the center here.

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Beat poet Peter Orlovsky dies
Peter Orlovsky, a Beat-era poet best known as the life partner of Allen Ginsberg, died of lung cancer on May 30 at a hospice in Williston, Vermont. He was 76.

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Keeping kids off drugs
Community members of Calvert came out in large numbers Tuesday for a town hall meeting focused on how to keep local youth out of trouble, away from drugs and on a positive path. The meeting, which was sponsored by the Brazos Valley Council on Alcohol …

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