back to school

Kids are still enjoying their summer vacation and school is the farthest thing from their mind right now.

The summer of 2014 has officially come to an end for East Texas students. The ringing of the morning bell signifies the start of the new school year. With the kids going back to school, the school zone lights that have been off for the last three months have suddenly started blinking using their amber beacons!

The Holderness Family has done it again, parodying Sir Mix-A-Lot's Baby Got Back, and turning it into, Baby Got Class!

Back to School season is here and East Hills Mall, in St. Joseph Missouri invites you to shop its stores in what just might be the worst commercial ever.

The farthest thing from our kids' mind right now is school; they're focused on summer vacation plans, swimming, hanging out with friends and just being kids! Right now, we're basically one-third of the way through summer and pretty soon we'll be buying school supplies and uniforms and packing their lunch to send them off to continue learning.

Confession, I was a band nerd. In fact, I was president of the band nerds my senior year and proud of it. So, when a friend recently posted link on Facebook, Why Your Teen Should Join Marching Band, I felt a desire to add to it.

At the Teen Choice Awards on Sunday night, Ashton Kutcher took home the Ultimate Choice Award. He teased that it was the "Old Guy" award and graciously thanked his fans, but then he went on to share some words of wisdom.

Earlier this week, I was reading Lucky Larry's story about his daughter's first day of school. Like Lucky, it's a bit of a stretch for me to remember my first day, but I do remember my last, first day of school.

For the past couple of years I've grown accustomed to hearing the school bus stop in front of the house and pick up the kid across the street around 6:55 in the morning for his ride to school. I think that is a little too early for an elementary school kid to catch a bus, but that's the system, until now.  Tyle rISD has announced new bus schedules, which will save money and time while riding the b

Now that we've taken full advantage of the tax free shopping weekend and we're stocked up on clothes, notebooks, and pens, the attention turns to the actual start of school. When students in Palestine had back to class, they'll be enjoying brand spanking new facilities that were three years in the making and cost about $65 million. The new high school accounted for $35 million of that.

Today through Sunday, East Texans will be saving the tax on many tax exempt items as they do their back to school shopping.  The crowds at the mall and area shopping centers are very reminiscent of black Friday sales right after Thanksgiving.  Broadway in Tyler and McCann and the Loop in Longview are expected to be very congested throughout the weekend as traffic increases.

As a college student, I know how difficult it is to pay for college. Not only do you have to pay tuition, but you have to pay for everything that comes along with it, like books. College books can be ridiculously expensive if you go through the school book store. I started doing some research to see how I could still get the books, but save as much cash as possible.