Westport Public Schools will finally hold full-day kindergarten every day of the week, after 12 years, four contentious votes and over 300 signatures on a Change.org petition. The change will take effect...

Deep in the heart of Africa, lion cubs chase and claw at one another, all in the name of having fun, living life, and forming social bonds with the other members of their pride. Thousands of miles and...

The BOE convened on Monday, May 20 to discuss the Westport 2025 initiative and the district’s goals for the upcoming year. The meeting’s primary focus was a presentation by Director of Secondary Education...

In the wake of the tragic school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, the Westport Public Schools Board of Education (BOE) recommended that a security audit be conducted by Kroll, a New York-based consulting...

Laddie Lawrence has been teaching at Staples since before Steve Jobs founded Apple and coaching at Staples since before the moon landing. He met fellow P.E. teacher and Staples alum Bruce Betts before...

2:30 p.m. Students attending the Junior State of America's Winter Congress convention in Washington, D.C. next month prepare for their debates at a club meeting.

And you thought the movie “2012” was a flop. As most Americans raced home from school and work on the afternoon of Friday, Dec. 21, eager to begin their holiday breaks, fire and brimstone did not...

Don’t worry, this is where it gets interesting. Although the Wild-Card round was marred by sloppy, mistake-filled play and low-scoring games, the second round promises to provide much more excitement,...

With a tough transition back from Christmas break, miserably cold weather, and midterms coming up, January could easily be the worst month of the year. But fortunately, the NFL playoffs are around to provide...

Imagine what America would be like if not a single congressperson had ever set foot in this country, or what you’d learn in your statistics class if your French teacher wrote all the lesson plans. Think...

2:15 p.m. Students board their buses at the end of the first school day since Friday's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. All flags in the state were ordered to fly at half-mast...

8:45 a.m. Principal John Dodig and Grade-Level Assistant Dee Hychko remain in the conference room after the last student exists today's homeroom meeting. Two senior homerooms conferenced with Dodig, Hychko,...

Keyboards clack. Pages turn. Occasional whispers are rendered unintelligible by a humming printer and stifled yawns. Faint footsteps resonate in the hallway. Learning centers, one of the last bastions...

At 6 p.m. on Saturday night, a car drove through the front window of Painter’s Supply at the Compo Shopping Center. The store was closed at the time of the accident. No one was injured,  and there was...