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Kids, Parents Celebrate Literacy on Marietta Square

Share your photos and comments on the Marietta Reads! tenth-year anniversary celebration.

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Marietta Reads!, the Marietta City Schools citywide effort to foster reading and literacy in the community, celebrated its tenth-year anniversary Saturday in Glover Park on Marietta Square.

“Marietta Reads! has made a significant impact on promoting reading in our schools, and engages our community to support the work we do to improve literacy,” said Jill Sims, MCS Executive Director, Curriculum and Instruction. “As a school system, we reinforce the importance of reading to all of our students every day.”

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