LITTLETON — Sienna Hay is a fighter.
So is the Littleton school community rallying around the miracle baby and her family, parents Megan and Will Hay, and Sienna’s grandmother, Melinda Morissette, who has been the reading specialist teacher at Lakeway Elementary School for two decades.
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