This year, in partnership with Western’s creative writing program, Crozet’s local library created a Teen Poet Laureate program to celebrate local youth poets. The title of Teen Poet Laureate was awarded...
Western junior Helen Moak has proven herself a trailblazer. She is the first student from Western to be admitted into the Summer Residential Governor's School program for Japanese, which will spend its...
Wyant's Store is a small gas station with one out of date gas pump on the far side from the parking lot. It lies just in front of a big field, and the inside feels more like a cozy room than a gas station....
A collective gasp, intermingled with applause, swelled in the auditorium during the final monthly meeting of Western Albemarle’s National English Honors Society. Ms. Define and Ms. Streit’s announcement...
Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis once said that he imagines he’s playing the guitar on trumpet. For Leri Odumosu, star freshman saxophone player, he draws many similarities to Miles Davis by emulating the...
Beginning in the 2023 school year, Albemarle County Public Schools is scrapping the old academy system and replacing it with a new network of Career Learning Communities (CLCs) that will allow students...
While society portrays young women as the main victims of body image disorders, it is not a gendered issue. In light of the pandemic, men have experienced increasing pressure to conform to male beauty...
Nolan Burkhart, a WAHS 17 year old senior and app engineering extraordinaire, won the 2021 Congressional App Challenge award for Virginia’s 5th district; he received the award from representative Bob...
“We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union-...” Whoa, whoa, whoa- hold up. Play back the tape. We’re not talking about that “We the People,” although Western’s...
For many WAHS students, the appearance of vibrantly colored leaves and crisp autumn air denotes some particularly notable school activities. Homecoming, spirit week, and the end of the first semester....
The new cell phone policy being implemented at Western is very controversial. Simply put, the cell phone policy or “away for the day” is the rule that students must have their phones put away or in...
Where did Western’s muffins go? Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Western had a grab-and-go system with a variety of food and drink options. The school had a diverse range of options including pretzels,...
