Security upgrades cost School Board

September 19, 2014
In response to the Sandy Hook tragedy, Westport public schools implemented this summer the first half of the Board of Education’s (BOE) $1.4 million plan for school security improvements. Part of this plan includes automatic interior door locks, which is why any student who leaves for the bathroom...
Juniors risk safety parking at Wakeman

Amina Abdul-Kareem, Staff Writer
November 19, 2013
On an early November morning before 7:00 a.m., licensed juniors battle to beat the long line for a parking spot at Wakeman to avoid a half a mile walk in 33 degree weather. “I get there at 7:03, and the line is at the baseball fields,” Colby Kranz ’15 said. “I think it is pointless how half ...