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After All Things

Classroom kickoff

By Sabrina Garone
Published August 24, 2026 at 3:15 PM EDT
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Most Connecticut school students will get free breakfast this year. Suffolk officials stress the importance of slowing down in work zones. Plus, a new law in New York takes effect this week on police communications with ICE. And the latest from WSHU's Birdsong Break.

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Sabrina Garone
Sabrina is host and producer of WSHU’s daily podcast After All Things. She also produces the climate podcast Higher Ground and other long-form news and music programs at the station. Sabrina spent two years as a WSHU fellow, working as a reporter and assisting with production of The Full Story.
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