On Monday, February 13, Westford Public Schools were cancelled due to a snowstorm that lasted Sunday into early Monday. Superintendent Bill Olsen cancelled school the previous evening, as weather forecasts stated that snow would continue into the late morning. However, contrary to prediction, the snow...

On October 29th, Westford Academy's Junior State of America (JSA) chapter went to the Northeast Fall One Day convention at Harvard to discuss topics sparking conversation about politics and social issues. Senator James Lewis came to address the question on the ballot this year called Question 4. On Tuesday,...

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...

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...

By Kai-Lou Yue News Editor As a student, I enjoy it when one of my teachers brings the class to one of the computer labs to work on a project or assignment, or signs out a laptop cart for use in the classroom. It's a welcome change from a typical class of taking notes or listening to the teacher...