Guys and Dolls at WHS
WHS music teacher and play director, Emily Patterson, lies out the plot of Guys and Dolls. “It is an oddball romantic comedy. Set in Damon Runyon’s mythical New York City,” Patterson said. Gambler, Nathan...
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Cheerleaders Repeat Success at OCC
For the second consecutive year, Wooster’s varsity cheer squad finished first in the annual Ohio Cardinal Conference cheer competition. The competition was held at Lexington High School on Sunday, Nov. 6. The Generals’ win...
Kean Elementary School Celebrates 50
On Nov. 20, 1966, Kean Elementary was formally dedicated. Now in 2016, Kean has arrived at its 50th anniversary. Kean was dedicated in 1966 to teacher and administrator Lura B. Kean, according to the...
Escaping the Election? Try These Places
Twenty-eight percent of Americans are currently satisfied with the direction of the U.S., according to a Oct. 5-9 poll conducted by Gallup. Hillary Clinton receives criticism from conservatives on nearly all of her policies,...
BLADE wins CSPA Gold Medal for 2015
Every year The Wooster Blade submits six of its best issues to be critiqued in an international convention for student publications, hosted by Columbia Scholastic Press Association, and this year, The Wooster Blade was...
Weighted Grades Considered
Beginning in the 2015-2016 school year, a committee of teachers, along with principal Tyler Keener and guidance counselor Tyler Egli, began discussing the option of implementing weighted grades in WHS. This committee, the Building...
Q & A With Chilean Poet Christian Formoso
On Oct. 4, Chilean writer and poet Christian Formoso visited WHS and spoke to upper level Spanish and literature classes. He has published six books of poetry, and won several national prizes for...
Research Casts Doubt On Drug Testing
Since the 2002 5-4 Supreme Court decision in Board of Education v. Earls, which allowed schools to conduct random suspicionless drug testing without warrants of any student who participates in extracurriculars, there have been...
School Board Mulls Drug Testing Students
The Wooster City School Board of Education announced at its August meeting that it will form a committee to consider random drug testing in the WCSD, according to the Aug. 6 Daily Record article,...