The competition was fierce but friendly at the Greene County Historical Society’s annual spelling bee held Saturday as part of the Bell Tower Festival. A total of 16 spellers competed.
Pictured are first and second place spellers (front, from left) first place Dan Derry and second place Henry McGinn in the grades 1-2 division and second place Max Weis and first place Lucy Vander Linden in the grades 3-4 division; and (back, from left) second place Megan Weis and first place Hannah Sloan in the high school division, first place Mia Sloan and second place Gavin Vander Linden in the grades 5-8 division, and second place Wendy Vander Linden and first place Amy McGinn in the adult division.
