Almost in session

By Pam Eubanks
| 4:00 a.m. August 14, 2013

Braden River Elementary head custodian Calvin Johnson readies to clean a hallway.

East County
Schools

Local teachers and school staff members have been busy preparing to welcome the Manatee County School District’s roughly 42,000 students back into classrooms.

District staff have been touching up paint, cleaning floors, registering students and handling other details before open house events this week and the start of school Aug. 19.