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Spelling Bee champs visit with County Executive Updated 12:39 PM; Today 12:39 PM Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise meets 2021 county spelling bee champion Mujtaba Raja, left, and junior champion Vansh Sunil Patel at the historic Brennan Courthouse in Jersey City on Wednesday, April 7. Facebook Share Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise hosted a meet-and-greet Wednesday with the champion and junior champion of the 2021 Hudson County Spelling Bee, giving the two students the chance to meet each other in person after this year’s virtual contest. The visit between the county’s top spellers a...

21 to compete for spelling title The national spelling bee is scheduled to be held March 21, at the Geoffrey Brown Auditorium at 3 p.m. FILE Twenty-one contestants, nine of whom are from the Family Islands, will vie in-person for the title of Bahamas National Spelling Bee champion and the opportunity to represent The Bahamas at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. But the win won’t be easy for any of the contestants, especially with two former top spellers returning for a shot at the title in Roy Seligman, a Lyford Cay International School student who is also a two-time champion, and Maria ...

rgallabrese@heraldstaronline.com Slowly, but surely, things all around are starting to get a little closer to what we remember as being normal. And that’s encouraging, especially when you look back and think about how much we’ve gone through in the past year. We’ve experienced stay-at-home orders, seen businesses and restaurants forced to operate on reduced hours or closed (some, sadly, permanently) and been kept from seeing friends and relatives. Then there are all of the gatherings and events that had become staples in our lives that had to be canceled or, in some cases, shifted to a ...

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press The Scripps National Spelling Bee will return this year in a mostly virtual format, with the in-person competition limited to a dozen finalists who will gather on an ESPN campus at Walt Disney World in Florida, Scripps announced Monday. Last year's bee was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, the first time since World War II it had been called off. Organizers said they did not believe a large gathering at the bee's longtime venue — a convention center outside Washington — would be possible this year for the competition's usual date around Memorial...

The in-person competition is limited to a dozen finalists who will gather on an ESPN campus at Walt Disney World in Florida.