On the morning of January 31st, a WA sophomore was taken in by administration after posting a three-student "hit list" on Facebook the night before. The incident was brought to the attention by one of the students targeted in the post, who, upon noticing the threat, went directly to the office of...

On Friday, January 27, WA Chinese teacher Zhenyan Li and her classes threw a Chinese New Year Celebration. The whole cafeteria was decorated with traditional Chinese red lanterns and banners, with surroundings covered in red due to the Chinese legend that the color would scare away evil meant to...

  For the first time in WA's recent history, the underclassmen will be having a semi-formal dance akin to the junior cotillion and senior prom on Saturday, January 28th. The project, founded by SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) and Project Purple, aims to provide a safe and enjoyable...

On Monday, January 2nd, it was announced that WA's The Herren Project's (THP) Project Purple Initiatuve club ranked second place in the organization's 2017 THP Project Purple Initiative Video Contest following the first-place winners, Roger L. Putnam Vocational Technical Academy, in Springfield, Massachusetts. As...

Following the dismissal of students on Tuesday, principal Jim Antonelli sent out an email to the faculty stating that on Monday January 9th, students will be released a bit early day from Westford Academy. The release is in order to facilitate student attendance at the girls' hockey game vs Acton Boxborough...

WA Theater Arts’s latest black box show, Almost, Maine, is hitting the main stage this December. Show times are at 3:00 and 7:00 on December 14, 15 and 16. Directed by Emily Harde, the play centers around people falling in and out of love in the town of Almost, Maine. The cast and crew of the show...

On December 8, Westford Academy Theater Arts made the sudden change of having the Laramie Project as the January production, instead of performing To Kill A Mockingbird, which had been the original plan. Theater Arts Director Michael Towers wanted the production of To Kill A Mockingbird to be a realistic...

From Thursday, November 10th, through Saturday, November 13th, six WA Ghostwriter staff members traveled to Indianapolis for the National High School Journalism Conference (NHSJC), accompanied by advisers Janet Fonden and Jack Holbrook. Along with over 3,500 journalism students, the staff attended three...

720 WA students and faculty members voted in a mock election on November third, in order to determine the majority's opinion on both state and federal issues. With a ballot similar to that of the actual 2016 election, issues ranged from who to elect as the next United States president to decisions...

This Saturday, November 5th, the second annual Rajiv Paluri International Night will be held at Westford Academy from 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM. The event encompasses some of Rajiv's favorite things: football, food, and fall. Last year,  Paluri's father and Principal James Antonelli worked together to...

For two weeks last March, WA students and faculty experimented with a brand new type of school schedule. Rather than a typical class after class day, school days consisted of a ten minute break after the second class, as well as an extra minute of hallway passing time. According to WA Principal Jim...