An OPEN LETTER to … Bridgeport’s Brett Kuprowicz …

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Hey there Spelling Bee Champ:

S-U-C-C-E-S-S.

You were one of 243 spellers to travel to the Scripps National Spelling Bee and you performed well as “No. 174” after you were crowned the best middle-school speller in all of Belmont County.

Now, you’ll have your final summer before becoming a high school student at Bridgeport High School, and we’re wishing you luck in all your endeavors and we wanted to congratulate you on your hard work. Now that social media places on display our spelling skills (or lack thereof) on a daily basis, many folks have developed a fresh appreciation for those vocabulary classes back in the day.

Be well and do well, young man.

Sincerely,

We Appreciate You

Steve Novotney
Steve Novotney
Steve Novotney has been a professional journalist for 34 years, working in print for weekly, daily, and bi-weekly publications, writing for a number of regional and national magazines, hosting baseball-related talks shows on Pittsburgh’s ESPN, and as a daily, all-topics talk show host in the Wheeling and Steubenville markets since 2004. Novotney is the co-owner, editor, and co-publisher of LEDE News, and is the host of “Novotney Now,” a daily program that airs Monday-Friday from 3-6 p.m. on River Talk 100.1 & 100.9 FM.

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