Horizon earns Miller the win

It took 13 rounds to whittle the 12 entrants in the German Valley Grade School Spelling Bee to the final 3, another 2 to pick the final 2, then a final 4 rounds of back and forth spelling action to crown a winner Jan. 31.

In the end fourth-grader Taylor Miller outlasted Nicole Fox to claim the crown.

The opening for Miller came when Fox spelled primitive with an a instead of an i.

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