BRYAN EATON/Staff Photo. The "Clipper Crew" sort socks at the Nock Middle School in Newburyport, from left, Sadie Vandenberg, Maggie Pons, Page Cole, Hannah Thompson and Alex Parr, all 13. The school was participating in Socktober, a national initiative to collect new pairs of socks and donate them to local shelters. The project started with eighth-graders and spread to other grades and the Molin School with the over 2,000 collected headed to the Pettengill House in Salisbury for distribution.

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