The team touches turf for their first game of the season against Whiteville on Thursday, August 29. Some new to the game, some who have been in a high school game before. After months of...

Imagine you go to the doctors, just for a normal check up. Everything's going well ‘till your doctor looks down at your chart and looks up at you with a blank expression on their face. You leave the...

We have an abundance of clubs for our student body to participate in and enjoy. Many of which are educational, some of which are competitive. If you seem to be looking everywhere for an easy-going club...

Student sections have always been a part of high school culture. Basketball games, and football games, students all around the US gather in the stands of those athletic events and cheer on their friends...

With all the tragedies of 2020, there is always the possibility of a better year. Although we are not guaranteed a great start to 2021, it may get better. There seems to be a lot of “ifs” and “maybes”...

The declining health of our oceans due to factors such as climate change, pollution, and plastics is not a new thing. In this very moment, there is an estimated 14 billion pounds of trash in the ocean....

In every trash magazine you will find an article about loving your body or being yourself, and within the next few pages an article with a title similar to how to drop 10lbs. in a week. This topic titles...

It’s a recurring conversational topic here at West: homework. Whether it be hallway snippets of the student body discussing how much homework they got, or even rants about how someone didn’t get the...

I think we’ve all been in the position of the new kid. Whether you were a freshman or just coming from a different school in the district, you have experienced “the first day.” Coming from Florida,...

School rivalries have played a huge role in high school sporting events since the beginning of competitive sports. West rivalry against the Topsail baseball teams stands out among others. A rivalry...