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The Granite Cornhole boards that are by the senior entrance.

New granite cornhole set added to WA senior entrance

Misha Singhal, Co-Reviews and Opinions Editor Oct 30, 2025

Westford Academy welcomed a new addition to the senior entrance this September: a granite cornhole set-up, gifted by the graduated classes of 2024 and 2025. The project was paid for by leftover class funds and provides another recreational space for students before and after school. According to Murphy,...

Edition II, Crossword #2: Rain

Edition II, Crossword #2: Rain

WA Ghostwriter Sep 15, 2023

Enjoy solving the Ghostwriter's weekly crossword below! Comment or DM us on Instagram (@wa_ghostwriter) with feedback or suggestions for future themes in the upcoming weeks.

A new step to the future using virtual reality and human actions.

Virtual reality: a way of playing a new life

Mackenzie Adam, Staff Writer Dec 18, 2020

Put a headset on and get teleported into a complete new world with flying planes, zombies attacking, a full laser-tag game, or anything your mind can think of. All of this can be generated through technology; one of the newest pieces of technology is virtual reality. Virtual reality allows people to...

Hay Day Game Review

Hay Day Game Review

Penny Joyce, Staff Writer Mar 25, 2019

There have been many different games that grabbed people's attention over the past several years, but Hay Day is one that’s stuck around for some time. My friends and I started playing Hay Day in about seventh grade, we are now in high school and have started playing it again. This game has proven...

Gaming Club members at a meeting

Gaming Club continues with new adviser

Ben Walker, Co-Editor-in-Chief Jan 11, 2017

Every Thursday, students from all grades head to room 222 for the weekly meeting of the Gaming Club. Headed by adviser Jonathan Geary, the club is meant for students to come in every week to play any games they want to play. According to Geary, the club members tend to come every week with a plan...

Members from game club playing a card game

Release your inner Gandalf

Kai-Lou Yue, Editor-In-Chief Sep 23, 2015

Once a week, in one of the science rooms on the second floor of WA, a group of students prepare to go on a quest, or begin strategizing a battle or two. As is typical for the WA Strategic Gaming Club, boisterous laughter and loud voices can be heard throughout the hall as players embark on their...

Opinion: Should all of the Winter Olympic activities really be called sports?

The “Sports” of the Olympics

Mar 3, 2014

By Anthony Giovino Staff Writer In truth, the Winter Olympics are, for the most part, called what they truly are: games. The so-called "sports" of these Olympics are no more a sport than cleaning the house, or building structures. And yet, if somebody were to put a timer on those activities and...

Catching Fire blazes away viewers

Dec 6, 2013

By Ellie Smith Features Editor As audience members file into AMC Theaters in Tyngsboro, MA, they can hardly contain their excitement for the movie that is about to start. With most of the audience having read the book, they anticipate what the director has done with the movie and how accurately...