Nikki Benoit, a junior at Westborough High School, recently created her own mentoring program at Hastings Elementary School for kids who need just a little extra help from a positive role model. In the program, high school students, like herself, are paired with a child. The high school student mentors his/her little buddy once a week after school. Nikki’s goal is for the child to make a connection with his or her mentor and eventually benefit from the weekly meetings.
The high school students sit with the kids in their classroom, play board games with them, help them out during gym class, or

Alexa Raniuk, 19, currently attends Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She graduated from WHS last year.
Alexa has many goals she wants to accomplish on her way to becoming a sophomore in college next year such as being accepted into Savannah College of Art and Design a world champion in equestrian, and being successful.
Alexa has had a strong passion for art ever since she could pick up a pencil or a paint brush. She loved using her creativity in painting when she was younger. And now, Alexa wants to begin her future in the Department of Animation.

Westborough High School math teacher, Mrs. Costa, grew up in Norwood, Massachusetts. At a young age she realized her career dream was to be a teacher. Greatly influenced by her father, Mrs. Costa set out to pursue that dream during her years of education.
She attended Norwood High School where her favorite subject was Spanish.
After high school she attended Assumption College

WHS math teacher Mr. Collins has a story behind his facial hair. He made a bet with a student that if the student earned a B or better in his class then Mr. Collins would shave his beard. The incentive worked. Mr. Collins now sports a mustache, although he claims it wasn’t part of the deal.
Behind the goofiness of making such a deal, is Mr. Collins’ dedication to his job and his care for the students. Teaching is in his blood as he comes from a family of teachers. His mom was a teacher, his grandfather was a principal, and his grandmother was a teacher. He is the only math teacher of the group. Yet interestingly, Mr. Collins wasn’t always involved in education.
For 19 years Mr. Collins worked in business before he decided

A hot topic in today’s society is bullying. People ask why kids are bullying, how they do it, and where are the adults while this is happening. To me it seems that these adults have forgotten what it was like being a kid. They scream that bullies should be persecuted as strictly as possible. What they don’t remember is that we all have bullied at one time in our lives.
Bullying is defined by www.dictionary.com as “To treat in an overbearing or intimidating manner”. (Key words: overbearing and intimidating). This is the definition many adults now use for what was once consider friendly teasing. This is not bullying. There are obviously a lot of adults who see it as it really is: childhood behavior, but many others over-react and kids get in trouble.

Westborough High School’s ULEAD group is an exclusive group of students who are against destructive decisions. This group gathers to discuss issues that pertain to what they believe is right. The group members, including the leaders and the students, decide which activities that they would find fun that doesn’t involve any peer pressure of substance abuse.
The members of ULEAD are strongly against the use of alcohol and drugs. WHS Physical Education teacher and ULEAD co-advisor Mr. Rota sees these teenagers as the school’s “role models”. The kids feel that it’s not necessary to abuse alcohol and drugs in order to have fun. They find fun things to do as a group that doesn’t involve these things.
ULEAD meets the first Tuesday of every month in Ms.

Everyone in Westborough High School knows Mrs. Callender as one of our P.E. teachers. She even fits the profile of the typical gym educator: having an athletic build, wearing athletic clothing, and eating healthy foods. What people don’t know is that she didn’t originally even want to teach P.E., let alone be a teacher. Mrs. Callender’s plans were to be a social worker and major in Sociology.
Mrs. Callender was born and raised in Rutland, Massachusetts. She attended her first two years of high school at Wachusett, but then transferred to Tilton School in New Hampshire.
This move, however, wasn’t just any old change. Mrs.

Throughout the years I never guessed that I would make it to this point in my life where its time to say good-bye. Once I’m gone I will not miss school, but I will miss a few things: the different cultures, people, personalities, lifestyle, and dress of the unique student body that Westborough High School has to offer. The lunch food will never be missed, but I can guarantee the majority of the seniors will miss one thing: that’s the “cookies

I do not think I will miss anything about WHS. In later years, however, I may think back on my days at this school and maybe miss something I did do, but for now there is nothing. I can tell in years to come I will have only a few memories of WHS and unfortunately they will not all be good ones.

Recently, the WHS Student Council released a time line of dates pertaining to the Student Council and class officer upcoming elections.
On Monday, April 26th, the day school resumes after April vacation; nomination papers will be made available to candidates. Candidates will be required to obtain 25 signatures from members of their graduating class and 5 signatures from members of the faculty by Thursday, April 29th at 2:00 pm, which is the deadline to submit their nomination form to the main office.
On Friday April 30th, the election