Archives for: January 2011
Week 4 and yet another Buzzer Beater

By Ryan Auger Staff Writer Senior Jason Welch, hit a three pointer at the buzzer, with his team down by two, moving his team past the Grizzlies on Sunday. Welch’s team is now one of two 4-0 teams in the league who sit at the top. Senior Andrew Robinson, a teammate of Welch, said “It’s the best game I have [...]

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Week 3 disappoints and Tempers Flare

By Ryan Auger Staff Writer The Rec Ball League took a week off for the holidays, and would return the last Sunday of vacation. Unfortunately, this was too early for players. There was a lack of people at the games, and not all the players showed up to participate in their respective games leading to many problems regarding substitutes and [...]

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Girls Hockey Team Shutout by Arlington
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By Brian Williamson Staff writer The WA Ghosts Girls Varsity Hockey team was shutout Thursday, January 13th against Arlington, losing by a score of 8-0. The Girls were handed their second lose in three games, making their record 4-3-1. The first period was an offensive explosion by Arlington who made some good shots, but also got lucky by mistakes by [...]

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Girls Hockey Team Loses a Close Game

By Brian Williamson Staff Writer The girl’s varsity team lost an evenly matched game to Lincoln-Sudbury on January 6th by a score of 5-2. This is just their second loss of the season, making their record 3-2-1. The first period of the game was full of offensive chances, and the Ghost’s put the first goal of the game in the net [...]

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Julius Caesar Preview
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by Ethan Walshe Staff Writer This year, Westford Academy Theater Arts will be undertaking the production of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar as their competition play. Director and theater arts teacher Michael Towers has made the executive decision to make several alterations to the play, for varying reasons. “[With] every play I produce, my central focus, my audience, is the Westford Academy [...]

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Martel maintains the Model UN club

by Neil Sharma Staff Writer (Edited by Anna) The Model UN is a great resume booster for any student at WA. It helps a person understand the aspects of the world at an international scale and international relations. This year, history teacher Michael Martell will be the advisor of the Model UN and is helping to prepare to take part [...]

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The Animal Rights League kicks off 2nd annual shelter collection

Steph Arno Staff Writer Early this month, The Animal Rights League here at Westford Academy began its second annual shelter collection.

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Essays galore

Bettina Juszak Staff Writer A series of musings on American culture by a German exchange student: Midterms are coming up (yes, I know you’re probably already more than sick of that subject even though they haven’t even happened yet) and with that one more instance at school where virtually everyone will have to write at least some sort of essay. [...]

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Making Money

By Brendan Holman Staff Writer This column is dedicated to those Westford Academy students who hope and have attempted to make money. This column is additionally dedicated to those who want to go to college but have not yet saved enough money to do so. Lastly, this column has been written in order to feed the wealth desires that all [...]

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Top 10 shows to watch this season
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By Shambhavi Ranjan Staff Writer The New Year 2011 has already come, and so has new TV shows. Television shows are something that every teenager watches when they have free time, or maybe even if they don’t have free time. There are so many series out there that some people don’t know what to watch. This list of the top [...]

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New Courses for Next Year

by Sage Riddick Staff Writer It’s that time of year again. It is time to pick your new courses for the next school year. Most of the classes are going to be kept the same, but there are some major changes. There are not any new English courses, but there is a new foreign language class.The administration has decided to [...]

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Adopting a Playoff System in College Football

By Brian Prato Staff Writer For a few years now, the bowl system in college football has been repeatedly bashed, and some feel it’s time for a change. It’s time for a college football playoff system. This year, the national championship is between Auburn and Oregon. Auburn being from the Southeastern Conference and Oregon from the PAC-10. The SEC has [...]

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