Taking a moment to read

Andrea Arsenault reads to her two daughters, fourth grader Natalie (right) and 4-year-old Francesca (in lap) and Natalie's classmate Elizabeth Garnett. Arsenault came into Patricia McLynch's fourth grade class at John R. Briggs Elementary School in Ashburnham to celebrate Read Across America Day on Friday, March 7. JOURNAL PHOTO/JEFFREY W. BOUDREAU