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Back to school on the Island

Alison Eaton shows Thomas Eaton how to wait for the school bus

Fourteen-year-old Alison Eaton shows new Deer Isle-Stonington kindergartener Thomas Eaton how to wait for the school bus on Tuesday, September 4, the first day of classes for students entering kindergarten and grades three, six and nine at the Deer Isle-Stonington schools.

Photo courtesy Morgan Eaton

From left, Raymond Eaton, McKenna Martin and Brayden Martin strike a pose under a balloon archway leading into the elementary school.

Photo by Jessica Brophy Students piled off buses and spilled out of parents’ cars

Students attending Deer Isle-Stonington Elementary School piled off buses and spilled out of parents’ cars for the first day of school for all students, Wednesday, September 5.

Photo by Jessica Brophy

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