Moody Middle School eighth-grader Taran Shivkumar finished 30th at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., correctly spelling three words and answering two questions, as well as passing a spelling and vocabulary knowledge threshold quiz, before being eliminated in the eighth round when he misspelled the word cryosel,
When Ellen Bohon was growing up in Hopewell in the 1960s and 1970s, “women didn’t get to do very much in sports,” she recalled.
Well, maybe most women. Bohon was different.
She played baseball, softball and basketball, snow skied, water skied and even played tackle football with the boys
Anne Stewart Kyber owes her 19-year career as elementary school teacher to Ms. Carswell, her own second-grade teacher at Tuckahoe Elementary School.
“Looking back at who I am as a teacher. . . she just made me love school,” said Kyber, who for the past 10 years has been teaching at Crestview