Westford Academy Girls' Soccer (WAGS) senior captain and the University of Vermont's (UVM) top recruit, Eleni Stowell, will be heading to play Division I (D1) soccer at the collegiate level. Stowell finished the college selection process early as a junior and was recruited to play on the women's soccer...

When I reminisce on my four years with the Ghostwriter, my mind goes straight to our tables.  I can picture all ten plastic boards lining the room in evenly spaced rows as I walked in on my first day of “Journalism 1” freshman year. I sat in the front right, my back facing my classmates on my...

The moments I remember from high school aren’t the ones I planned for. They aren’t the tests I spent hours studying for or the grades I stressed over at the time. Instead, they’re the small, unstructured moments that turned out to mean the most, like the funny conversations I had with my friends...

I’ve been trying to write something to help you avoid the mistakes I made in high school. Ideally, I’d give you a golden nugget of wisdom that would allow you to circumvent all the failure and sleep deprivation that awaits you, but the serial procrastinator in me has led me here: struggling to write...

The capstone project grants an immense opportunity for seniors at WA to explore their passions and get a taste of what the world outside of high school has to offer. However, some students take this opportunity as a way to make a real impact on their community. For senior Ryleigh Waterhouse, her capstone...

Lights in the PAC, projectors for conferences, sound for presentations--what happens when the man responsible for all of these systems retires? This dilemma has had Westford Academy administration relying on an especially adept and enthusiastic senior: Hayden Pelta. With the retirement of Mark Miller,...

Four years of high school come with a lengthy set of challenges and distractions no matter who you are, what school you attend, or what your priorities are. At a school as academically rigorous as Westford Academy, these stressors and distractions are even more inflated. Things such as GPA, SAT’s,...

The Ghostwriter had the opportunity to sit down and interview senior Damian DiNitto for our Student Spotlight series. Read the transcript below for our full interview! Q: Who am I here with today? A: My name is Damian DiNitto. Q: What grade are you in?  A: I'm a senior at WA. Q: Have...

She holds the memories of her childhood close to her - lining up small horse toys given to her by her mom as she watches her favorite cartoons, a rotation of any show with horses in them. As a little kid, her fascination with horses preoccupied her. Little did she know, that small interest would manifest...