Zachary Elementary School held its annual Spelling Bee for third- and fourth-graders Feb. 23-24. Each classroom held a spelling competition that had the top-spelling boys and girls advance to compete ...

Tia Geisler is proof that when it comes to being an elite speller, age doesn’t matter. It is all about the letters, not the numbers, for the 9-year-old fourth-grade champion from Orchard Hollow ...

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DANVILLE — Ten year-old Anjali Agarwal is not known for making spelling errors in her fourth grade English class at Saint Joseph Catholic School in Danville. Agarwal is known for just the opposite and ...

FLUSHING, Michigan — Two fourth graders from Seymour Elementary were determined not to walk away from the spelling bee without a fight — so much so that they almost ran out of words. Jackson Mott, 10, ...

Commentary: We are losing something important when schools move away from the basics, letting technology fill in the gaps ...

SUMMIT — The 2012 Fourth and Fifth Grade Spelling Bee, sponsored by the Summit Junior Fortnightly Club, is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 21, at 10 a.m. (snow date is Saturday, Jan. 28). It will be held ...

Pencils up for your spelling test today, class. Your first word is blorskee, as in, "I lost my blorskee at a carnival." Don't know what a blorskee is? Neither does anyone else because it's a made-up ...