PHOTO: Bank of America Awards $5K to Acton Boxborough United Way

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Chris Herren to Students: I Want You to Hear My Story

Acton Boxborough United Way and ABRHS PTSO joined forces to bring the former Boston Celtic, the subject of a book titled Basketball Junkie: A Memoir, to speak at the high school.

When Fall River native Chris Herren was a high school student, he attended presentations aimed at curbing substance abuse by teens.  At the time, Herren was drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana. But the fact that nearly everyone he knew was doing it, coupled with his status as a heavily-recruited basketball player heading for college on an athletic scholarship, influenced his assessment of those talks. Speaking to a crowd of about 1,000 students, parents and teachers assembled at ABRHS last Wednesday night, Herren described his then-reaction. “That story doesn’t pertain to me,” he said. Within three weeks of Herren’s arrival on the Boston College campus as a freshman, his coach was contacted by Sports Illustrated and told that the star …

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