By SCOTT BACKUS Principal, Tippecanoe Valley Middle School The TVMS spell bowl team made their third consecutive trip to the Indiana Association of School Principals State Spell Bowl Finals at Purdue University. The bowl was held on Saturday, Nov. 15. The team finished 4th overall in Class 2, spelling 55 of 72 words correctly.

Addison Torres, an eighth-grader at Wawasee Middle School, won the school’s spelling bee Monday morning. He correctly spelled the word “popularity” to win the spelling bee. The runner-up was eighth-grader Ethan Ousley. The county spelling bee will be held Tuesday, Feb. 4, at Lakeview Middle School in Warsaw.

Caleb VanLue, sixth-grader, was the winner of the Wawasee Middle School Spelling Bee Friday. Roger Fitzpatrick, seventh-grader, also was the runner-up. The fifth- and sixth-grade county spelling bee will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, at North Webster Elementary School. The seventh and eighth grade bee is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. …read more.