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Trump bashes Amazon over series of tweets

Trump bashes Amazon over series of tweets

April 3, 2018

By Emma Greenberg '18 President Donald Trump first tweeted about the the internet retailer Amazon on March 29, calling out the company for causing damages to the United States Postal system. His following...

Students and families attend Westport March For Our Lives Candlelight Vigil, demand gun regulation and  honor lives lost

Students and families attend Westport March For Our Lives Candlelight Vigil, demand gun regulation and honor lives lost

Eddie Kiev '20, Web Managing Editor March 25, 2018

Saturday, March 24, 6:30 PM; hundreds of students and families attended the Westport March For Our Lives Candlelight Vigil in Downtown Westport.  Following a similar march in Hartford earlier in the...

Texas explosions leave community questioning perpetrator’s motives

Texas explosions leave community questioning perpetrator’s motives

March 21, 2018

By Audrey Bernstein '20   Five explosions have detonated in Texas since March 2. As of now, the explosions have  killed two and injured five others. The bombing suspect, identified as Mark Anthony...

Former Staples Student Running for State Senate

Former Staples Student Running for State Senate

March 2, 2018

Jacob Kogan '18 Former Staples student, Will Haskell ’14 announced Wednesday Feb. 28 that he will be running to represent Connecticut in the State Senate. Haskell, only 21 years of age, strives to...

Cold classrooms force out students and teachers

January 9, 2018

Madison Sell '18 Multiple classes were stopped and moved out of their usual classrooms on Jan. 2 as a result of extremely low temperatures. This problem was mostly present in the left side of the building,...

U.N. general assembly denounces Trumps Jerusalem plan

U.N. general assembly denounces Trump’s Jerusalem plan

December 24, 2017

Melanie Lust '19 The U.N. voted on Thursday to pass a resolution demanding that President Trump rescind his policy to move Israel's capital from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem. The nonbinding referendum, which...

Universities withdraw awards given to Charlie Rose

Universities withdraw awards given to Charlie Rose

November 26, 2017

Allie D’Angelo ’20 Due to recent sexual harassment allegations, Arizona State University and the University of Kansas have simultaneously revoked awards given to Charlie Rose, a long time television...

Texas shooting kills 26 and injures several more

Texas shooting kills 26 and injures several more

November 9, 2017

Caroline Blevins ’18 About 26 victims were killed on Nov. 5 after a gunman opened fire at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland, Texas. Around 20 others between the ages of five and 72 years old...

Terror Strikes NYC: Eight dead, 12 injured

Terror Strikes NYC: Eight dead, 12 injured

November 1, 2017

Zach Strober '19 Eight people were killed and more than 12 were injured when driver Sayfullo Saipov drove a rented pickup truck down a busy bicycle path for about a mile in lower Manhattan. The incident...

Car Crash Keeps Westport Residents Alert

October 25, 2017

Cate Casparius '19            A resident in Derby, Connecticut, just 22 miles away from Westport, experienced a home invasion, on October 24, a Tuesday morning. Three people broke into the home,...

United States shocked by T&T, eliminated from FIFA World Cup

United States shocked by T&T, eliminated from FIFA World Cup

October 11, 2017

By Jonathan Kaner '18 The United States Men’s National Soccer team failed to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia after a 2-1 defeat to last-place Trinidad and Tobago on Monday, Oct. 10. “It...

Westport BOE approves first ever Innovation fund

Westport BOE approves first ever Innovation fund

September 14, 2017

By Jack Beck ’18 The Westport Public Schools will have a $50,000 innovation fund implemented into the budget for the first time. The fund is specifically for the use of students and faculty to be...

Westport student arrested for threatening violence

Westport student arrested for threatening violence

September 7, 2017

By Alex Reiner '18 A Westport Public School student was arrested Wednesday, Sept. 6 for a violent threat made towards the school system in an online gaming chat. The threat occurred in late August...

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