As seventeen chimes sounded at 10 am, students of Westerly High School silently exited the building to walk around the campus and then standing with linked arms, their heads down or holding up posters. After the moments of silence were completed, the chimes played again across the campus. The ma...

Sophomore Marissa Berardo is looking forward to an all-expenses paid trip to Washington D.C. after being named the Rhode Island State Winner of the VFW Voice of Democracy speech contest. She received the news on January 27 at a VFW awards dinner in Cranston. The top winner from each of the three R.I. V...

The Class of 2020 hosted a Masquerade Winter Ball on February 3 from 7:00-10:00 in the Ward Gymnasium. Although masks were optional, many students participated in the theme, and dressed more formally than usual. Even the Bulldog statue in the foyer wore a mask. Decorations were festive. Strings of lights ...

Drop by Ms. Barnhart’s room this week if you’d like to meet a famous foreign visitor who reads Romeo and Juliet in his spare time and loves acting. No, it’s not Kenneth Branagh. It’s... The Elf on the Shelf! Many people are familiar with The Elf on the Shelf tradition, based on a children’s bo...

On Wednesday, December 6th several Westerly High School students were involved in physical and verbal confrontations resulting in one student being sent to the hospital and seven students being arrested. There were two officially recognized physical conflicts.  The first was between a freshman boy ...