By Sameer Kini Sports Editor For many high schoolers, senior year can feel like a time of complete inbalance. So much time is focused on the college application process that everyone is looking towards graduation and the first day of college. This feeling is compounded by the early decision/early action application process, which many students apply for in early November. [...]

By Jocelyn Cote Staff Writer In October, National Public Radio ran a segment on author and celebrity photographer Melanie Dunea. For her 2007 book My Last Supper and newly-released sequel My Last Supper: The Next Course, Dunea interviewed fifty famous chefs from across the globe and posed them all the same question: “What would you like your last meal to [...]

By Matt Miller and Ethan Walshe Students at Westford Academy dedicate their time to a myriad of activities, such as sports, clubs, employment, involvement in their community and other endeavors. With this many options, students often put their time into several areas, and balancing this all with schoolwork can prove to be a challenge, although some find it to be [...]

It is important to get involved throughout high school because it is a good way to make new friends and be a part of your school. Also, it looks good on college applications. Here is an updated list of clubs for the 2011-2012 school year with email addresses for the advisors of each club. Amnesty International Advisor: Ms. Kavanagh Art [...]

By: Kyle Auger Sports Editor Music is one of my main passions, and I am constantly on the search for new, better stuff. I have a pretty diverse taste, from Notorious B.I.G. to Rage Against the Machine, I like a little of everything. But currently, I am on a hip-hop or light rap kick, and the last two months have [...]

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 [...]