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WA Ghostwriter

The student news site of Westford Academy

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Class of 2017 graduates move on from WA

Class of 2017 graduates move on from WA

Mehul Shrivastava, News Editor Jun 3, 2017

On Friday, June 2, the Class of 2017 concluded their years at Westford Academy as they celebrated their high school graduation. Friends, family and faculty all gathered at the Alumni Stadium to recognize the graduating seniors. The stadium started filling up a couple hours before the ceremony, which...

Li recognized as salutatorian

Li recognized as salutatorian

Mehul Shrivastava, News Editor Jun 2, 2017

As the class of 2017 prepares to graduate, multiple seniors are being recognized for the outstanding work they have done. One of these seniors is Amanda Li, who is salutatorian of her class.        By completing another major step in her academic career, Li feels accomplished and honored as she...

Class of 2016 moves on with memories

Class of 2016 moves on with memories

Ben Walker, Sports Editor Jun 3, 2016

On Friday, June 3rd, family, friends, teachers, and faculty gathered at Alumni Stadium to watch the Class of 2016 graduate from high school. After much speculation of cancellation due to poor weather forecasts, the show went on and the Class of 2016 moved on. At 5:30 pm, the students, lead by Dean...

Lawlor to open for McGraw at CMA's

Lawlor to open for McGraw at CMA’s

Anthony Cammalleri, Staff Writer Jun 3, 2016

On June 9th, WA senior, singer-songwriter Caroline Lawlor will be performing as an opening artist for the 2016 Country Music Association Awards on the Tim McGraw stage, a performance which will be displayed to thousands, if not millions of country music enthusiasts from all around the United States. Although...

Puranik at WA

Puranik awarded salutatorian

Andrew Friel, Managing Editor Jun 3, 2016

The Class of 2016 will forever leave their legacy as one of the more academically gifted classes in recent history, and their salutatorian, Alok Puranik, is another example of this exemplary scholarship in this clearly exceptional class. "It's a great honor [...] just because this class has so many...

Senior Michael Colavita

Colavita exits on top

Ben Walker, Sports Editor Jun 3, 2016

Senior Michael Colavita has spent the last four years of high school working on things that some students may find unimaginable. From being the president of the programming club to performing in the WA Marching Band, Colavita has shown that his work has paid off. On June 5th 2016, graduation day, he...

Make some stories

Make some stories

Alok Ganguly, Editor-in-Chief Jun 2, 2016

High school is all about learning things, and that's what everyone told me before I entered WA's halls four years ago. But the most important thing that I learned was from this past year, and it wasn't anything I could learn in a classroom. My friend and I were having a debate about how we wanted...

Find out what features editor Kayla Chavier has to say as she graduates!

Accepting insanity

Kayla Chavier, Features Editor Jun 2, 2016

Before the school year even began, I was assigned the task of reading Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, for my AP Literature and Composition class. This book was a complicated entanglement of different scenarios and characters.  I fortunately made it out of the maze of Heller’s winding ideas, and I found...