back to school

You'd never guess what popular snack children are bringing to school in New England.

With the school year about to kick off, we take a look at some of the coolest places in New England to visit and learn.

There’s a back to school event coming to the Augusta Elks Lodge on Civic Center Drive.

Back to school is getting closer and closer and your child may be little worried about starting this school year. The back-to-school jitters are something that happens to kids of all ages but here are some things you can do to help them.

Back to school is in full swing and that means time to head back to the local dollar store for another 'Dollar Store Discovery' Back to School style! I brought along Sarah Dyer from the Morning Buzz, she has six children in school, let's take a look at what we found!

Just in time for kids to go back to school comes a report that 98% of head lice are now immune to most popular treatments. Lice feed from the blood of kid’s heads.

Backpacks are an important part of back-to-school so what are the best backpacks this year for kids to carry all their stuff. eBags has more than 7,000 backpacks in 250 brands and their number one selling pack is the Swiss Gear Scansmart.

Back to school shopping is getting underway and the question is ‘how much will you spend on back to school shopping?’ According to the website deloitte.com the average is $488 for your children this year.

I was listening to Tim McGraw’s song ‘Back When’ this morning and some of the lines really hit home to past generations. Like: Back when a hoe was a hoe, Coke was a coke, and crack's what you were doing when you were cracking jokes.

So you have high school aged children that are headed back to school. What do they need for school supplies? If you don’t have a list of specific brands, sizes or quantities then sticking to the basics is the best way to go.

Back when I was in school, back to school shopping meant going to Barefoot Trader on Lisbon Street in Lewiston to buy a couple pairs of corduroys (those pants were horrible), some notebooks, pens and pencils and maybe a new lunchbox. Maybe 75 bucks spent.

Back when I was in school, back to school shopping meant going to Barefoot Trader on Lisbon Street in Lewiston to buy a couple pairs of corduroys (those pants were horrible), some notebooks, pens and pencils and maybe a new lunchbox. Maybe 75 bucks spent.

The 'X-mas Jammies' family is back, and this time they're celebrating what every parent is looking forward to this time of summer: the beginning of the school year.

Kids all over Central Maine have gone back to school and several families in the Lewiston-Auburn area have been touched by the Back To School Angel.

For the last 20 years, Randy McCoy has read a poem on the air all about a little girl going to school for the very first time. The poem, 'I Trust You'll Treat Her Well', by Dan Valentine from the book "American Essays: Sentimental Classics Designed to Make the Heart Sing", has been around for nearly 60 years and each time Randy reads it, I cry. A lot.

There is something special about this time of year in Maine. The changing of the seasons from summer to fall, the best time of year in Maine. A tradition from generations is passed on, back to school shopping.