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 [...]

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 Alexander Lee Staff Writer All eyes watch as three balloons, green, yellow and red, sail peacefully into the sky. They were released during the Westford Academy graduation of the class of 2010 to commemorate the life of Olivia Marchand, a WA senior who tragically passed away earlier this year. Earlier in the day as the start of graduation approached [...]

By Nick DiNatale with Lena Mirisola Staff Writers The ‘Bout Damn Time Tour arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 13th 2010, at The Middle East restaurant in order to play for a rather large crowd of indie-rock and pop-punk fans. The tour, which travels all across the country, features The Bigger Lights, Anarbor, The Audition and This Providence, whose hometown [...]

By Nicholas DiNatale with Lena Mirisola Staff Writers On Thursday April 1st, 2010, the Artery Foundation Across The Nation Tour made its way to the Crocodile Rock Café in Allentown, PA. Headlining the tour was post-hardcore band, Attack Attack!, supported by Breathe Carolina, I See Stars, Asking Alexandria, and Bury Tomorrow. Prior to the show, band members could be seen [...]

By Nicholas DiNatale with Lena Mirisola Staff Writers On Saturday, February 13th, 2010, The Valentine’s Day Massacre took place at The Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts. The show featured many New England-based alternative and post-hardcore acts, including Boston based act, Vanna, who was headlining the show. From the photo pit, right in front of the stage, The Palladium appeared larger than [...]

By Nick DiNatale with Lena Mirisola Staff Writers On Saturday, January 30th,  The Venetia Fair’s headlining tour made its second stop at Rocko’s in Manchester, New Hampshire. Rocko’s happened to be the second of the two stops for the tour’s kickoff events. Before coming to a close, the tour is scheduled tomake its way from New Hampshire, down the eastern [...]

By James Knowles Staff Writer January 20, the varsity girls’ ice hockey team drove all the way into Waltham to face the Waltham team after three consecutive wins against Wayland, CC and Newton-South.

By Shannon Donahue Staff Writer Last Friday, December 4, our own swim team traveled to Sudbury to compete in their first “meet” of the season, the DCL Relays. This competition is not only for practice, but also for the many teams to meet their new swimmers, including the freshmen. The WA Swim Team departed around 2:10, filled with both excitement [...]

Lexie Brearley Staff Writer Sunday, November 22 was a day that some cheerleading teams in Massachusetts will remember as an okay day or maybe a bad day or maybe even an embarrassing day. A lot of girls fell, a lot were dropped, and one even was dropped then knocked down her supporting teammate on her way down. For the Westford [...]

By Kendall McElroy Staff Writer