Laura Kessel

Yes!!

Yikes: 67 spellers so far in the quarterfinal round, and 44 have been eliminated. @ScrippsBee

Morning session so far @scrippsbee has been a schwa festival. Spellers are being tripped up by the devilish central vowel in words. Note: schwas in "devilish" and "vowel."

Zach Yeager, #speller163, had one goal for @ScrippsBee: beat his brother's performance. Andrew Yeager spelled his first words correctly in his two appearances in 2021 and 2022, but missed both times on the vocab word. #zachwins @ScrippsBee

Man, this is an oddity for @scrippsbee. One speller gets ONOMATOPOEIA, and the next one gets QUITO. Luck of the draw sometimes stings. (Both got theirs right, though.)

First two words of this group of spellers were SAGITTARIUS and EMPHYSEMA. @ScrippsBee

We're through 128 spellers in @ScrippsBee. Today is first two rounds, one spelling word and a vocab word after they spell correctly. So far, after the first 128, 86 will move on. Our local spellers come up in a little bit.

Logan Cox, #speller166, is a 14-year-old 8th grader at Claymont Middle School in Uhrichsville OH. Won @CantonRepdotcom spelling bee to make @ScrippsBee. https://t.co/ZoXzTOAwZl @TROhio

Zachary Yeager, #speller163, is a 13-year-old 7th grader at Chippewa HS in Doylestown OH. Won @beaconjournal spelling bee to make @ScrippsBee. Learn about him: https://t.co/Oojh9kWali

Spellers for @CantonRepdotcom and @beaconjournal will be coming to the stage next. Look for #speller166 (Canton's) and #speller163 (Akron's). If you have Ion TV Plus, you can watch there, or search for the bee on Pluto TV, and you can watch, too. @ScrippsBee

Through the first 100 spellers @ScrippsBee, and 69 have survived and will spell on Wednesday. It's a hard go this year, with difficult words fpr first round, plus definitions immediately afterward for second round.

So, #speller7 in @ScrippsBee just spelled "quattrocento" correctly. It's definitely bee time.

.⁦@CantonRepdotcom⁩ speller Logan Cox is in the house for ⁦@ScrippsBee⁩ in Maryland. Spelling starts Tuesday on Ion Plus. Logan is #speller166. Follow along for updates. (He’s far right in the first pic, and seated at center in second.) https://t.co/ums9GZDaql

Saw police working Summit Sheriff deputies working this a little while ago on Route 619. They’re not kidding. Stay inside, nearby folks.

CantonRep.com @CantonRepdotcom

Uniontown Police and Summit County SWAT are searching for an armed man in the vicinity of Uniontown Community Park. https://t.co/6bxDbYnEMr

Just crowned ⁦@CantonRepdotcom⁩ 2024 spelling bee champ! He’s in the front row of this pic, Speller No. 6, Logan Cox of Claymont Junior High in Uhrichsville, Tusc County! Best wishes in Washington at the ⁦⁦@ScrippsBee⁩ https://t.co/U6oCCvyj6w

I needed this today, a reminder that everyone at any level needs to take baby steps to get things to work out. #hitithard #intheair

Jen McCaffrey @jcmccaffrey

A new addition above the Red Sox batting cages, quote from Ted Williams: “We’re going to learn to do two things… we’re going to hit it hard and we’re going to hit it in the air.” https://t.co/3NhjU3mKJn

Uh-oh ... snow is coming! Parking ban in effect for Osnaburg Twp. from 4 p.m. today (THU) to 4 p.m. Saturday (1-20). But, really, stay off the roads so the plows can do their work safely. @CantonRepdotcom @alliancereview