The Orcas Schools’ annual Spelling Bee in the public school cafeteria at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19. All but three students had been eliminated by 9:45 a.m.

By 10 a.m. it was down to two, Mia Smith of Orcas Middle School and Darby Wright of Orcas Christian School. Smith and Wright alternated spelling, and misspelling, words for nearly an hour until there was only one winner. Smith took home the prize for best speller by correctly spelling “acetone,” taking home a Samsung tablet as reward.