Carey Chesire, a 13-year-old student at Andover Middle School, will compete in the prestigious national spelling bee later ...

A very old, giant tree sits just inside, its hefty trunk protected by railings. A Mexican conifer (ahuehuete), thought to have been planted around 1633, is one of the city’s oldest trees and is ...

The school district said Chesire’s winning word was “Ahuehuete,” a type of Mexican cypress tree. The district said the eighth ...

Archaeological studies found that ahuehuete and ahuejote trees were used for the construction of the pools, canals and ...