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YouTube Video: Monroe Welcomes Newtown

Allison Miller, a 16-year-old Masuk High School student, made a short video on Monroe and Newtown's bond since the Sandy Hook tragedy.

This is a video posted on YouTube by Allison Miller, 16, of Monroe using photos she Googled and music to highlight how the town welcomed Sandy Hook Elementary School students and staff after the shooting in Newtown.

She posted it on Friday with this statement:

I am a proud citizen of Monroe, CT and am so happy that my old school, Chalk Hill, can now be the new school (home) for our Sandy Hook neighbors! This is a compilation of photos from the Sandy Hook tragedy. No copyright infringement is intended. All rights belong to the original photographers, Phillip Phillips, and those associated with his recording of "Home".

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