While corn, bean and fruit farmers are impacted, beekeepers may be getting hit the hardest. “It’s not just a cliche,” Kaite Lee, with the University of Minnesota’s Extension’s Bee Lab, ...

The top 12 spellers (six from each spelling bee) now advance to the Final Spelling Bee at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 18, at the Wood Lake Meeting Center (210 Wood Lake Dr SE, Rochester, MN 55904).

The local winner will advance to the National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. Students are in grades 3-8. Students arrive at 12:30 p.m. and the competition begins at 1 p.m. The event is free and ...