Manty thanks to the students and educators at Mary Lynch Elementery School for sharing these letters to Santa Claus with the Observer. The letters are being published just as the kids wrote them.

We were overwhelmed by the response to our annual Letters to Santa feature, with more than 1,250 letters submitted this year. Due ...

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