{"id":139999,"date":"2021-02-08T00:02:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T05:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=139999"},"modified":"2021-02-09T03:15:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T08:15:04","slug":"lincolnview-8th-grader-crowned-county-spelling-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/02\/08\/lincolnview-8th-grader-crowned-county-spelling-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatcher crowned county spelling champ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lindsey Hatcher, daughter of John and Heather Hatcher and an eighth grader at Lincolnview Junior High School, won the 2021&nbsp;Van&nbsp;Wert&nbsp;County&nbsp;Spelling&nbsp;Bee&nbsp;held at Lincolnview Local Schools on Sunday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-County-Spelling-Bee-winners-2-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-140000\" width=\"350\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-County-Spelling-Bee-winners-2-2021.jpg 560w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-County-Spelling-Bee-winners-2-2021-550x408.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption>Shown are (from the left) are Isabelle Murphy, Lindsey Hatcher, and Harrison Sloan.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The second-place finisher was Isabelle Murphy, daughter of Sarina Raber and a fifth grader at Van Wert Elementary School, while the third-place finisher was Harrison Sloan, son of Robert and Dawn Sloan, and a sixth grader at Van Wert Middle School.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other competitors included Lucas Sawmiller, a fifth grader at Crestview Elementary; Braelyn Marsee, a sixth grader at Crestview Middle School; Dakota Thornell, a seventh grader at Crestview Middle School; Sam Boroff, an eighth grader at Crestview Middle School; Zavier Kemler, a fifth grader at Lincolnview Elementary; Josie Miller, a sixth grader at Lincolnview Elementary; Gabby Thomas, a seventh grader at Lincolnview Middle School; Jazzlyn Florence, a sixth grader at St. Mary of the Assumption School; and Peyton Hoffman, a seventh grader at Van Wert Middle School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert Federal Savings Bank sponsored&nbsp;the awards to the top three finishers of the county spelling bee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hatcher will move on to the online regional qualifier&nbsp;via the Scripps online testing platform. The top finishers of the online regional qualifier&nbsp;will advance to the Northeast Indiana Regional Spelling Bee&nbsp;on March 6, which will be administered&nbsp;virtually through a teleconferencing platform, and the regional champion will represent the Northeast Indiana Regional Spelling Bee program in the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee this summer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The national competition is normally held in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information Lindsey Hatcher, daughter of John and Heather Hatcher and an eighth grader at Lincolnview Junior High School, won the 2021&nbsp;Van&nbsp;Wert&nbsp;County&nbsp;Spelling&nbsp;Bee&nbsp;held at Lincolnview Local Schools on Sunday.&nbsp; The second-place finisher was Isabelle Murphy, daughter of Sarina Raber and a fifth grader at Van Wert Elementary School, while the third-place finisher was Harrison Sloan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 23:26:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}