Huntington Speller Wins Again

For the second year in a row, a Huntington student has won this area’s spelling bee. 12-year-old Michael Paynter is a seventh-grader at Riverview Middle School. He beat 17 other kids from northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio for the right to go to the national spelling bee in Washington in May. The runner-up was 14-year-old Christopher Auer, who is in the eighth grade at Indian Springs Middle School in Columbia City.