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While it is illegal for stores to sell alcohol to youth, there is no state law that specifies when employees must ask for identification. That decision varies from store to store and from person to person...
...announcement comes as the College mounts its own crackdown on underage drinking. And it comes three years after the old owner of Louie’s Superette, the popular convenience store near Mather House, had his license suspended for 12 days for selling alcohol to minors...
Under state law, providing a minor with alcohol can be punished with a fine or even jail time. But, as was the case with Louie’s Superette, the consequences are rarely that harsh. Generally, an offending establishment may get a warning letter or be forced to close for up to three days, said Amy Whitney, the Massachusetts youth program coordinator of MADD, a group that works with community law enforcement agencies to enforce underage drinking laws...
About 20 percent of stores across the country sell alcohol to minors, said Barbara B. Harrington, the state executive director for MADD. “There is this myth that youth only get alcohol through the use of fake IDs,” she said...
...Adams says he’s been clean and sober since before entering the studio to make June’s “Easy Tiger” and the just-released “Follow the Lights” EP. But, for most of the oughts, drugs and alcohol meant that his shows would be either the best or the worst concert you’d seen in a long while.All this has made Adams one of the most frustrating musicians around. Between 2003 and 2005 he recorded five purportedly-mediocre albums–and countless other unreleased tracks...