Welcome back to the school year, young ladies and gentlemen, who are heading back to elementary school, attending high school out of town or embarking on the glory days of university or college. As you start this new chapter, your parents are starting a new one, too. If they want to take a cheesy photo of you with a wooden chalkboard documenting your annual life decisions, let them. If they want to help set up your dorm room, let them. If they need to give one, or three, more goodbye kisses, let them. Wayne Gordon seems pretty proud to be showing off his bike for the first day of school here in NOTL in 1949. Good luck to our students and to our dear parents who may be struggling with these big changes, too.