By Lauren Cullen Staff Writer On Wednesday November 22, Westford Academy graduate Katie Lawson came back to host a workshop for the theater department. 13 actors and actresses from WA’s theater program attended the workshop in total. Lawson, a graduate from WA’s class of 2007, went on to Fordham Universityat Lincoln Center’s theater program. She now is a professional actress [...]

By Ethan Walshe Managing Editor On Friday, December 2nd, the No Guts No Glory tour made it’s Massachusetts stop at the Palladium in Worcester. The show was co-headlined by post-hardcore act Pierce the Veil and metalcore band Miss May I. The Amity Affliction, letlive and Woe, Is Me performed as direct support. Fans had begun to stretch down the neighboring [...]

By Jocelyn Cote Staff writer On Wednesday night, a crowd of hundreds gathered in frigid temperatures outside Boston’s House of Blues, eagerly anticipating the annual “Miracle On Lansdowne Street” sponsored by local alternative radio station WFNX. This was the first of three shows that make up the event, which spans over a period of two weeks. Headlining the show were [...]

by Haley Verre Staff Writer Westford Academy is participating in the Toys for Tots program for the first time this year, which is being sponsored by the freshman class of 2015. Toys will be donated by willing students to children at Christmas who are less fortunate. According to the mission statement, the program will “distribute those toys as Christmas gifts [...]

Alexander Lee Editor-in-chief On November 22nd, Superintendent Bill Olsen declared that Westford Public Schools would make up the days lost due to the October snowstorm during the Wednesdays and Thursdays of February and April Vacation. The news surprised many students. This had never before been done in previous years. Even during the ice storm of ’08, in which WA also [...]

By: Kyle Auger Sports Editor How many times do you log onto Facebook and your news feed is bombarded with obscure song lyrics, the annoying “truth is” and the dreadful “like my status” posts that compare you to a variety of things you don’t care about? Too many times is the answer, it’s ridiculous. I am not trying to be [...]

Here at the Ghostwriter, we asked ourselves the puzzling question, “What do we doodle?” So we created the page known as the Doodle Blog and is a place where you can suggest animals to combine, send in your own drawings, or just enjoy our work. With the creation of this page comes it’s first entry, the combination of a Great White Shark [...]

Recently produced by WATA, “Code Monkey” is an hilarious comedy. It had the crowd roaring with laughter. Starring Nick Nudler and Leah Detolla, the play is about an intern who works at Notanevil Drug Company and falls head over heals for a lab assistant, Laura (Detolla). When Laura gets kidnapped by the evil boss of the company, Tom, the intern, [...]

By Jocelyn Cote Staff Writer I’m not afraid to admit it – I’m a music nerd. Many of my favorite bands have been huge influences on my life for years, and writing about music is a passion of mine. However, my music taste is quite the opposite of many girls here at WA: I much prefer a crazy guitar solo [...]

By Kathleen McAleese Staff Writer Maria Dale, a beloved Latin teacher at Stony Brook Middle School, died in her home on November 23 after battling cancer. Mrs. Dale taught Latin at Stony Brook here in Westford since the beginning of the 2008 school year. In her time there, she touched a number of hearts and established herself as a great [...]