Staffers wave back to Joshua Riddle, 7, during year-end celebration Thursday at Laura E. Richards School in Gardiner. The pre-Kindergarten to second grade school has 255 students.
Principal Karen Moody waves at a family driving by Thursday during Laura E. Richards School's drive-through reverse parade in Gardiner. Moody said that this beach-themed goodbye was the first time staff and students had all been together since classroom instruction was forced to stop by the coronavirus pandemic back in March.
George Henderson, 5, waves at teachers through open van doors Thursday during a year-end celebration reverse parade at Laura E. Richards School on Brunswick Avenue in Gardiner. School staffers lined up waving signs and blowing bubbles in front of pre-Kindergarten to second graders as families drove past between 9 and 11 a.m. The school is named for Gardiner resident Laura E. Richards, a Pulitzer Prize winning writer who died in 1943.
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