WEST HAVEN, March 3, 2025 — (Pictured): Mayor Dorinda Borer celebrates Read Across America Day by reading the Dr. Seuss children’s book “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” to third graders of teacher Alexis Gilhuly‘s class at Savin Rock Community School on Monday, March 3.
The event, organized by literacy teacher Kristen Scanlon and her reading team, highlighted the importance of literacy while marking Dr. Seuss’ birthday, complete with balloons, posters and snacks.
The special day also featured other guest readers, including U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, state Treasurer Erick Russell, state Sen. James Maroney, City Council Chairman Nicholas A. Pascale, City Clerk John W. Lewis, West Haven Superintendent of Schools Neil C. Cavallaro and West Haven Fire Department Fire Marshal Roger Sicotte, as well as New Haven Register reporter Brian Zahn.
Read Across America, established in 1998, is an initiative of the Washington, D.C.-based National Education Association to encourage reading. The year-round program focuses on “motivating children to read through events, partnerships and reading resources that are about everyone, for everyone.”
(City Photo/Michael P. Walsh)
West Haven Mayor Dorinda Borer, third from left, joins guest readers, showing their books, at Savin Rock Community School’s Read Across America Day event on Monday, March 3. From left, Principal Thomas J. Hunt, New Haven Register reporter Brian Zahn, West Haven Fire Department Fire Marshal Roger Sicotte, literacy teacher Kristen Scanlon, Title I reading teacher Mary Winters, reading consultant Jackie Cincotta, and retired teacher and long-term substitute teacher Chris Latham. (City Photo/Michael P. Walsh)
