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Good morning Merrick! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☀️ In today's newsletter: Also on today's calendar: Seizure Safe Schools Advocacy in ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Fourth graders at PS 54 leaned in as high school students from Susan E. Wagner’s My Brother’s Keeper program read Grace Byers’s “I Am Enough,” a book that centers on self-love ...

Reading aloud to students during class time may sound like a simple, almost quaint, endeavor, as if from a bygone era. But literacy experts insist that it’s every bit as relevant now as ever, and they ...