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Lantana Town Manager Debbie Manzo gets a group hug Oct. 19 after reading the book Quackers by Liz Wong to kindergartners at Lantana Elementary School during the annual Read for the Record competition coordinated by The Literacy Coalition of Palm Beac

More than 350 cyclists, runners and walkers -- including (l-r) Kendall Apte, Susan Tusting

and Margaret Blume -- turned out for the annual fundraiser that had cyclists pedaling 40 miles

and runners and walkers doing 3.1 miles. There also was a 1-mile

Participating models are: (l-r) Gabrielle Kiminyo, Sophia Dickenson, Caroline Calder and Grace Vera.

Photo provided

By Janis Fontaine

    Calling all young ladies: It’s time to party, American Girl-style!
    The Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach Co

AmeriCorps members Michael Owen, 27, and roommate Cathy Hentschel, 23,

relax with their dogs in their pet-freindly Las Ventanas third floor loft apartment.

Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

AmeriCorps member Courtney Cambra works on spelling

By Ron Hayes

All together now.
Read!
But what to read?
In 2002, the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County introduced “Read Together Palm Beach County,” hoping to persuade as many as 20,000 residents to read the same book at the same time.
The book