Two teams representing Spring Hill Elementary School recently earned highest honors in the 2017-18 WordMasters Challenge — a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 150,000 students annually. The third grade team scored an impressive 195 points out of a possible 200 in the last of three meets this year, placing first in the nation. In addition, the sixth grade team scored 193 in the recent meet to place second nationwide. The third graders also placed first nationally in the overall competition with a cumulative score of 577 points out of a possible 600.
Every Eight Hours: This September, Make Checking In a Habit
BY JOHN F. CROWNOVER Every eight hours, Virginia loses someone to suicide. In 2023, 1,230 Virginians died by suicide, and nearly four out of five were men. They were fathers,
