Morris reveals the everyday life of managing schoolwork, subways and saut de chats

Claire Redmer '21, Social Media Director

November 19, 2019

Juliette Savarino spins into District PTA Reflections contest win

Natalie Bandura ’22

March 12, 2019

County Assemblies vote to permit male-male couples to attend future dances

Rachel Suggs '21

February 14, 2019

Rachel Suggs ’21   The County Assemblies voted in December to allow male-male couples to attend their 2020 events, the Assemblies announced in an email to Staples’ Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) on Feb. 6. Staples’ GSA both welcomed and helped initiate the decision. “I’m ...

County Assembly Charity Ball does not offer equal opportunity to same-sex couples

Roxy Augeri ’20

November 27, 2018

For junior girls, the beginning of the year signifies the beginning of an age-old tradition: attending the County’s Assembly Annual Charity Ball, commonly referred to as “Counties.”  For the first few months as an upperclassmen, all minds are focused on choosing a date, buying a dress and preparing...

Fall sports kick off with 2019 Pep Rally

October 4, 2018

By Zach Horowitz '19

Red and Whites fashion: A peek at the most popular trends of the winter dance

February 15, 2018

By Marlo Von der Ahe ’20 ...

Counties: a time to flatten your parents’ wallet

January 10, 2018

By Lauren Wasserman '19 ...

Westport Academy of Dance hosts its annual production of the Nutcracker

December 14, 2017

By Maya Brodows '20, Siri Kanter '20 and Kaela Dockray '20

Dance is an art, not a sport

January 3, 2017

By Kate Lewis '18 Growing up as dancer, while my friends played soccer and softball and field hockey, I was often asked if dance is my “sport.” When I was younger, I would reply yes, because I considered it to be just as difficult as any sport I saw my friends doing. And there were those kids...

Westport Dance Academy leaps and twirls to provide holiday meals

December 19, 2016

Kayla Sirlin ’19 The Westport Dance Academy held a children’s tea party at the Westport Woman’s Club to raise money for the Project Love Holiday Meal Campaign on Saturday. The senior company dancers partook in a series of mini dances while a Westport Woman’s Club member read the Nutcracker...

Staples juniors step up this year in The Nutcracker

December 15, 2016

By: Camryn Ragland ’18 and Erin Lynch ’18 While many students spend their afternoons and evenings at various sports practices or clubs, some spend their time leaping and turning at dance. These students have recently been involved in the Westport Academy of Dance’s performance of The Nutcracker...

Freshmen invited to Semi Formal Winter Dance

Sophie Driscoll '19, Opinions Editor

November 30, 2016

By Sophie Driscoll '19 Staples will be holding the first-ever Semi Formal Winter Dance for freshmen on Friday, Dec. 9 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at school. Yesterday, freshmen received information about the dance in an email sent by math teacher Jessica Levy. “There is a Class of 2020 Committee made u...

[Oct. 2016 Sports] Rhoads paves a road for dancing

November 22, 2016

By Lauren Stack ’17   While most high school seniors’ work day ends at 2:15, Elizabeth Rhoads’ ’17 day just begins as she laces up her ballet shoes and makes the four hour, round-trip commute to New York City. Rhoads began dancing in third grade at the Westport Academy of Dance but currently...