Stark Reading winners for LCMHS

Laura Hughes and Zoe Henning won first places at Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School for the annual Stark Reading Contest. Hughes will compete in the declamation competition and Henning in the interpretive reading category for the Countywide Stark Reading Contest finals at the Lutcher Theater at 6 p.m. February 6. Each school category winner gets $2,500 in scholarships and each school second place winner gets $2,000 in scholarships. The LCM school-wide finalists were bottom row, left to right, Jaiden Romar, Caroline Claybar, and Annabelle Claybar (second place in declamation.) Top row, left to right, are Brinley Anthony, Isaac Pinder, Laura Hughes (first declamation), Shayne Pannell, Paige McKee (second place interpretive reading), and Zoe Henning (first interpretive reading).