FARMINGTON — Moriah Reusch, an eighth grade student at Mt. Blue Middle School (MBMS), was the champion speller at the Franklin County Spelling Bee held Feb. 5 at the Forum on the Mt. Blue Campus. Bee governor and MBMS principal James Black introduced the judges, the 14 partipating students from seven area schools and Bee Master […]
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Dallas duel: Wild card turns tables at National Spelling Bee
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The end of the biggest Scripps National Spelling Bee in history came abruptly, and it wasn’t the conclusion that many expected. Naysa Modi, a poised and charismatic four-time participant whose long spelling career seemed to be building toward triumph, sat next to a newcomer whom she had already beaten this […]
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School cancellation days adding up in RSU 73
LIVERMORE FALLS — Like other Maine school districts, RSU 73 has had to cancel plenty of school days this year due to snow and ice. At Thursday’s RSU 73 board of directors meeting, Superintendent Kenneth Healey said there have been six school-cancellation days so far for 2017-18 in RSU 73. School board member Tammy Frost […]
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Gray 12 year old spells tarsier and triceratops in National Spelling Bee
Twelve-year-old Naomi Zarin, who lives in Gray and attends the Friends School of Portland in Cumberland, kicked off the opening round of the 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling tarsier. According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary (5th Edition), a tarsier is “any of a family (Tarsiidae) of small arboreal primates of the […]
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Floster to participate in state geography bee March 31
PARIS — “What ocean is New Zealand in?” Paris Elementary School fifth-grade student George Floster was asked at the school’s geography bee. “The Pacific,” he replied. And with that answer, Floster became the winner of the bee. Floster, the son of John and Lisa Floster, is a former basketball and baseball player, who likes to […]
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Winner named in Franklin County Spelling Bee
STRONG — The 2017 Franklin County Spelling Bee was held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in the Strong School gym. The judges, Judi Richard, Margaret Adams, Shirley Schrader and Catherine Zachary, listened intently as contestants Elise Spencer, Moriah Reusch, Zechariah Coolong, Charlotte Casko, Nadia Davis, Kaila Godbey, Hannah Cox, Charlie Pye, Madison DeLuca and […]
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Jay girl wins Franklin County Spelling Bee
STRONG — Emily Wilson, an eighth-grade student at Spruce Mountain Middle School in Jay, was the last speller standing at the Franklin County Spelling Bee at Strong Elementary School, where five school districts were represented. Ten students took part in the spelling bee this year. They represented Regional School Unit 58, RSU 9, RSU 73, […]
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Farmington student wins RSU 9 district bee
NEW SHARON — It took 24 rounds to declare sixth-grader Aubrey Hoes a winner in the Mt. Blue Regional School District Spelling Bee on Monday. Hoes, of Cascade Brook School in Farmington, and eighth-grader Ben Andrews, of Mt. Blue Middle School, went through 10 rounds before Hoes took the title. Andrews missed the word “vitriolic” […]