WLC starts school newspaper

Shelby Newsted
The Cabinet Press
Nashua, N.H.

October 29, 2009

Over the last few years, Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative High School has grown tremendously as both a school and as a community.

However, WLC has always been lacking something vital to every community: a newspaper.

A school newspaper is a great way to collect the thoughts and opinions of several people and groups around the school, as well as to inform the student body about what’s happening at WLC.

That’s the newly formed group’s primary goal: to inform. But that isn’t all they want to do; they also want to share, motivate and inspire.

The team is a group of students from different grades, with different interests and hobbies, but they have one thing in common: Every day, they drive or walk up the school hill and see all of the amazing things that the clubs, teams and groups at the school do, and they think people should know about it.

The newspaper, The Warrior Times, will be published every other week.

It will feature editorials and stories about sports, events and recent news, as well as the other sections seen in the first issue, which came out on Oct. 4. The newspaper will also feature something that everyone can appreciate: lots of pictures.

The Warrior Times will be readily available throughout the high school for free. All the newspaper group asks is that students check it out and read what they have to say.

The first issue enjoyed quite a bit of success when it came out. Both students and teachers were asking for copies, and the copies placed in a folder in the main hall of the school went quickly. Members of the school community could be seen reading the paper throughout the day, and a few students were delighted to find their names in the paper, which featured several quotes on topics ranging from the new high school schedule to whether juniors should be allowed to eat lunch in the courtyard.

Students were heard saying that the paper was “interesting,” “well done” and a “positive thing that the school hasn’t had for ages.”

The newspaper group is in the process of putting together the second issue, which will feature articles about sports victories this season, new teachers and the ongoing debate at the high school about the more advanced world language classes being scheduled during what are free blocks for the majority of upperclassmen.

They hope that enthusiasm about this endeavour only continues to grow.

Shelby Newsted is a senior at Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative High School.

Copyright 2009, Cabinet Press. Reprinted with permission.