Summer's over -- school is starting

Either Kain Banard is not too happy about the first day of school or he doesn't like his picture being taken while Principal Nancy Coffer helps him unload his backpack. Banard is one of the more than 50 students who began classes at St. Mary's School in Nevada on Wednesday. Photo by Rusty Murry

LeAndra Shotts investigates the contents of her pencil box before class begins Wednesday, the first day of the 2013-2014 school year for students at St. Mary's Catholic School in Nevada. Photo by Rusty Murry.

Josephine and Roman Willcom of Nevada pause for a photgraph before entering St. Mary's School in Nevada on Wednesday morning. St. Mary's is the first school in the area to begin classes for the 2013-2014 school year. Photo by Rusty Murry.