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Posted on April 19, 2012

Rock4STAR benefit dance April 28th

Put on your dancing shoes! Midcoast band Mid-Life Crisis will play all your favorite classic rock tunes at the Rock4STAR benefit dance on April 28th at the American Legion Hall, 91  Pearl Street in Camden. The alcohol-free event is open to all ages, with proceeds to benefit Five Town CTC’s STAR afterschool program. The Very Good No Name Band, comprised of Camden Hills Regional High School students, will open the show for Mid-Life Crisis. Doors open at 6pm, music runs from 7 – 10pm. Tickets are $15 at the door.

Posted on April 19, 2012

Five Town CTC travels to Texas

Our Executive Director, Dalene Dutton, and Board member Peter Russell participated in the Blueprints For Violence Prevention conference last week in San Antonio. Blueprints Conference 2012

Posted on March 29, 2012

The “good ‘ole days”….

Some Five Town locals may know my mother, Diane O’Brien, a resident of Lincolnville for over forty years. During much of that time she has been an avid gatherer of local history; interviewing long-time residents, poring over historical documents and photographs, gathering the stories of the town that was. Since I have returned to Lincolnville and begun raising my own family, I have spent a lot of time talking with my mother in the family’s old farmhouse near the Beach. With her interest in history and my work with youth, our conversations have often focused on historical perspectives of adolescents. As my parents could attest, I have always challenged the notion of “the good old days.” I have now lived long enough to hear my peers refer to our own upbringing in the‘70’s and ‘80s as “the good old days”- “when children had Respect.” Baloney.  READ MORE

This entry was contributed by Five Town CTC Board member Ed O’Brien who is a Lincolnville resident and clinician at Harbor Family Services.