Alexander Lee Editor-in-Chief & Anastasha Echavarri News Editor Over the last few years, many New England schools have been banning grinding from their school dances, including Chelmsford High School and Oakland High School.  Some schools in New Hampshire have even cancelled dances altogether due to administrations’ inability to control grinding.  The fate of WA school dances is at this time [...]

By Ethan Walshe Managing Editor This Friday October 14th, Westford Academy’s Gay-Straight Alliance will be hosting a movie night in WA’s Performing Arts Center. The group will be showing the award winning Sundance documentary Out in the Silence which addresses the response of a small town to the announcement of a gay couple’s engagement. This event is being held in [...]

By Ethan Walshe Managing Editor On Friday, September 23, the first of many Rock Shows at the Parish Center for the Arts was held. The event featured many performers, each offering their own unique musical talents to an enthusiastic crowd. The evening was graced with many performances by Westford Academy students as well as local bands. The night started with [...]

By Ethan Walshe Managing Editor Last Saturday night, the Westford Academy student body and community were given the opportunity to see and enjoy the many talents of WA’s students at the annual talent show, WA Idol. This year’s show showcased the many abilities of the student’s including singing, guitar playing, break dancing, unicycling and an act involving glow sticks and [...]

Samantha Upperman Features Editor Over the summer, a new turf field was installed at Westford Academy. The Trustees’ Field at Alumni Stadium was unveiled on the evening of Tuesday, September 13 with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The field cost $650,000, all of which was privately funded. Donations came from the Westford Academy Trustees, private donors, and the youth sport groups [...]

By Ethan Walshe Staff Writer On Tuesday, September 13, students of the freshman class had the opportunity to explore new interests and activities at the annual Westford Academy activities fair. Here, freshmen had the chance to learn about the many after school clubs that WA offers. The timing of this year’s activities fair differed greatly from previous ones. Instead of being [...]

By: Ethan Walshe Staff Writer Ten years ago yesterday, a tragedy struck our nation. On the fateful morning of September 11th, 2001, four hijacked American and United Airlines planes were taken from their scheduled courses and changed the United States forever. On the calm autumn morning, American Airlines flight 11 and United Airlines flight 175 collided with the north and [...]

By: Kyle Auger Sports Editor Last Thursday’s Welcome Back Dance was filled with controversy, rebellion, and makes the outlook for future dances very grim. Roughly 475 students attended the dance but none seemed too happy to be in attendance. From my experience at the event, most conversation was based on the rules and strategies to avoid trouble. Groups of students [...]

By Missy Madsen Staff Writer What would you say if there was a way to try and help those suffering from cancer? What if you had the chance to make a difference for those people? Well, even though scientists haven’t found a cure for cancer, there is still a way the students here at WA can join in on the [...]

Michelle Thompson Staff Writer Merri Brown, teacher of Child Development II and the preschool at Westford Academy is retiring at the end of this school year. The preschool teacher has been working at WA for fifteen years, and has taught not only the preschoolers but also the high school students enrolled in Child Development II and in earlier years, those [...]

By Tanvi Verma Staff Writer Mrs. Carol Fernsten-Lyman is retiring from Westford Academy after 17 years as a Special Education teacher.You’ve probably seen her around the Guidance hallway before, or maybe you’ve had the pleasure of being in one of her classes. She’s been hugely influential to new teachers in her department. “This is a huge loss for the department, [...]

By Jenna Lee Staff Writer As we all know, every Westford Academy student is required to complete summer reading for English. The summer reading list, up to this year, had been constant and unchanged. For the summer of 2011, however, the program went through slight changes. For example, the required novel for freshmen A Separate Peace by John Knowles is [...]