The Thirty-First Annual St. Mary’s County Middle School Spelling Bee will be held on Monday, March 2, 2009, 7 p.m., at Great Mills High School.

Students from the public middle schools, parochial schools and private schools will compete for the opportunity to advance to the Scripps National Spelling Bee later this year. 

The St. Mary’s County Middle School Spelling Bee, sponsored by The Enterprise newspaper, the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO), Chaney Enterprises, and the College of Southern Maryland (CSM), is open to the public. 

For more details, call Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper, Supervisor of Instruction for Reading, at (301) 475-5511 ext. 114.