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The student news site of Westford Academy

WA Ghostwriter

The student news site of Westford Academy

WA Ghostwriter

This is the proposed location of the gun shop on 359 Littleton Rd.

The gun shop issue: Westford can do better

The Editors Mar 2, 2023

Increased gun availability leads to more death, whether homicidal or suicidal. It's inevitable. But this isn't just a fun fact, or a statistic, or even just a study. This is our reality. On Feb. 13, at Michigan State University, a shooter killed three students and injured five more before turning the...

School Resource Officer Geoffrey Pavao stands in front of WA.

WA locks in on school security

Mahi Kandage, Sports Editor May 30, 2018

In the wake of recent incidents around the country, such as the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida shooting, and more recently, the one at the Santa Fe High School in Texas, questions regarding security concerns have risen at Westford Academy. Though Westford is ranked by Niche...

Arming teachers is not the answer

Arming teachers is not the answer

Kavya Desikan, Social Media Manager Mar 19, 2018

The shooting at Parkland, Florida, has left many concerns about school safety prominent in the public conscience. Due to this, new ideas are being brought up almost every day in an effort to improve security. One of the new and most popular ideas is one proposed by President Trump, where he recommends...

5 Things We Can Do to Prevent School Shootings

5 Things We Can Do to Prevent School Shootings

John Vassiliou, Staff Writer Mar 7, 2018

Over two weeks ago, we all watched in horror as over a dozen students in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were gunned down by a ruthless murderer, who I cannot in polite context begin to describe in this article. Families’ lives were forever changed and kids forever shocked as the effects of...

Fifteen mass murders have occurred at the hands of firearms in the US over the past thirty years.

Call for reform on gun control

Mar 6, 2013

By Kyle Auger Sports Editor Sixty-one. In the past thirty years, there have been sixty-one mass murders with guns in the United States. Of the twenty-five worst mass shootings of the last fifty years, fifteen of them were on American soil; the second place nation had two. If those numbers do...

A bullet in our rights

A bullet in our rights

Mar 6, 2013

By Abby Cianciolo Photography Editor    We’ve heard our parents and grandparents say it time and time again, that the world is a much different place from when they were growing up. After the events at Sandy Hook Elementary, it can be seen that this has never been more true. What is not...