Over the course of the past few days, Westford Academy has been experiencing a MRSA virus scare, with four reported cases in students. The nurses were immediately alerted of the minor outbreak and were ready for it to be a full blown issue. Those infected students are now under the care of their respective...

On Friday, September 30th, the WA Grey Ghosts Football team took on Lincoln-Sudbury at Alumni Field. With on and off rain, the Ghosts fought hard against the tough LS team, but ended up losing by a final score of 14-13. The game started off with both sides punting on their opening drives, showing...

On Tuesday, September 27 at 4 P.M., WA Girls' Soccer dominated their regular season match-up against Cambridge Rindge & Latin by a score of 7-1. However, that strong score line was not the worst it could have been for Cambridge, with WA usurping control of the game from the get go. The game began...

  This Saturday, September 24, at 7:00 P.M. WA Boys' Varsity Soccer triumphed over Chelmsford High 3-1. This was also an honorary game for the late Matt Roberge, a member of the JV team who passed away from leukemia this August. After the singing of the national anthem, there was a minute...

On the morning of Saturday, September 17,  WA Girls’ Varsity Field Hockey defeated Acton-Boxborough with a score of 1-0. The game consisted of 2 thirty minute halves. No goals were scored during the first half and the winning goal, made by senior Colleen Ellis, was scored in the second half. Within...

  WA Varsity Girls' Volleyball lost to Newton-South High School with a final set score of 2-3 this Wednesday. The game was close throughout, but WA's little mistakes built up through the play. The whole team wore orange armbands around their arms to show their support to Matt Roberge's...

Today, at  6:00 pm, WA Girls' Varsity soccer won their season opener against Wayland High School, sparking an intoxicating and uncontained excitement unparallel to any standard post-game cheer. Thirty minutes before game time, it would be no simple task for one to determine if it was the girls who...

As the new school year commences, many students are looking forward to sign up for fall sports. Athletes may find themselves buried between classes and practices and get overwhelmed.  Coming as a freshman in the fall of 2014, I joined the girls' tennis team in the spring but was not very good at organizing...

With yet another class of freshmen entering WA, the Ghostwriter has decided to put together a list of must sees for freshmen for the beginning of the school year. As a freshman, you may feel as though you should not care about school events when you are just a "frosh", we believe from experience that...

Once a small, humble program that barely made any noise on the playoff brackets, boys' volleyball at WA has taken off faster than anyone could have expected. The team captured a D1 North Championship before taking a hard fought loss to a strong Framingham team. "The numbers [of kids] keep going up...