PEPPER PIKE, Ohio – Eighth-grader Nina Kinsler, seventh-grader Elijah Brownstein and sixth-grader Crystalyn Thrasher were the grade-level winners in Brady Middle School’s annual spelling bee.

congratulates 2023 Hudson County Spelling Bee champion Kavya Jakasania, a seventh-grade student at Middle School 4 in Jersey City, on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, at High Tech High School in Secaucus.

Early on Tuesday, Lonsdale Elementary School 4th-grader Anthony Najjar said he wasn’t even sure if he’d even be in the ...