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"Libraries are the center and hub of any good growing and vibrant community."

-- School Board of Manatee County member John Colon

Several coats of paint, newly assembled furniture and (most important) boxes and boxes of books have transformed a Palmetto after-school tutoring center into a hub for literacy in a neighborhood previously devoid of books.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Children’s Library opened Monday at the Anna Gayle STEM Center.

Read more at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.