“Another Great Year” Starts for Lyme-Old Lyme Schools (Superintendent Neviaser of LOL Schools)

LYME-OLD LYME — The new school year kicked off yesterday for students in Lyme-Old Lyme Schools.

Kindergartners in Mile Creek and Lyme Schools experienced their very first day of ‘proper school.’

It soon turned out that Kindergarten “rocked”!

Changing classes was a great time for students to reconnect after the long summer vacation.

Playgrounds were also great places to catch up with friends (photo above), as were the minutes after the end of class  (photo below.)

Asked at the end of the first day how everything had gone, LOL Schools Superintendent Ian Neviaser told LymeLine via email, “”It was a warm and sunny day to kick-off the new school year. Judging by the smiling faces and excited chatter overheard in the halls, I think this is going to be another great year.”

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Olwen Logan grew up in a family of London educators but was inspired by her great grandfather, influential Daily Chronicle newspaper editor Alfred Ewen Fletcher, to pursue journalism. She built a successful career in efficiency analysis and senior audit management before launching her own PR-focused consultancy. After moving to the U.S. in 1990 and settling in Old Lyme in 1994, she became a staff writer for the now-closed Main Street News and later joined Jack Turner’s fledgling LymeLine.com, discovering the career she had always wanted—albeit in an unexpected digital form. Even after relocating to Maryland, she continued covering Lyme and Old Lyme with the same dedication, earning national recognition as a LION Publishers award finalist in 2020. After more than two decades of service, Olwen stepped away in November 2025, donating LymeLine.com to the newly formed nonprofit LymeLine Inc. and expressing her excitement for its continued growth and mission.