After three years of Covid-19 three seniors, Alyssa Guglielmo, Jennifer Graffeo, and Isabel Doherty, host the Westford Districtwide Art Show. This is for their capstone project. On May 12th from 5 p.m. - 7  p.m. at WA, the art show will showcase all different forms of art, such as paintings, drawings,...

After two years, the Pancake Breakfast is back and ready to serve the community again. On the day of the Apple Blossom parade, May 14 from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. the First Parish Church will be serving pancakes right next to the common. The cost of the event is $8 for adults, $6 for children, and Westford...

The Ghostwriter acknowledges that this is an ongoing investigation and not all the information has been shared/released with us; please read at your own discretion.  During the last week of school before spring break, the senior parking lot has become a hazardous place at Westford Academy with multiple...

WPS released the calendar for the 2022-2023 school year on April 11th  showing days off for the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the Indian/Hindu holiday of Diwali, and Juneteenth as new no-school days. This pushes back the tentative last day of school to June 20th, with an absolute cutoff on June 30th. For...

Students and their families will get to watch Comic Hypnotist Frank Santos Jr. perform hypnosis at WA this Friday at 7:00 pm. Tickets bought in advance during lunch cost 10 dollars each and 15 dollars upon entrance. All the proceeds will go directly to the DECA club, the organizers of the event. According...

Twenty-two years of guiding students to better health and coaching, nurse Sue Hanly is retiring from WPS. Hanly, the current nurse at Stony Brook Middle School, has worked as a visiting nurse, a coach for Girls on the Run, and has been a member of both the Board of Health and the COVID-19 committee...

WA’s Human Rights Club will be hosting an event called Chaat Masala at WA on May 13 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. This event will be a night filled with Indian food, music, and dancing. Tickets for students cost 20 dollars and tickets for the general public cost 25 dollars. All proceeds will be donated to...

Starting the next school year, new physical education courses will be offered to WA students. These include Basics of Kinesiology, Kinesiology of Team Games, Health Education, Empowerment and Goal Setting, and many more. Grades 10-12 will have their choice of any P.E. class and backup, just like deciding...

Student Council hosted an event from March 21 to 24 where students were given buttons from teachers for their acts of kindness. The students then passed the button on to other students when they saw them participating in an act of kindness. At the end of the week, students voted for their peers who had...

The school committee voted unanimously on November 22, 2021, to change the existing Westford Academy Mascot. The mascot was determined to be racist due to the dark figure within the hood and its origin story.  Now, a mascot drawing competition has been opened up to WPS students. WA Principal James Antonelli...

WPS held a town-wide restorative justice-centered seminar on March 3 following the Jan. 28 incident at a WA girls basketball game, where racist comments were directed at a Black player on the opposing team. WPS Superintendent Christopher Chew started the seminar with a recollection of the events...

Westford Public Schools (WPS) will no longer require masks to be worn during school hours by students and staff starting Monday, March 7. The School Committee voted in favor of the decision, 4-3 on Feb. 14. Officially, the mandate ends March 4, so students playing sports or doing other extracurricular...