Leaving Their Mark
325 seniors graduated from West Ashley High on June 19 by Donald Newton | contributing writer photos by Tumbleston Photography & Donald Newton Goooood morning, Wildcats!!’ A familiar cry rang out on the football field in Wildcat Stadium on Saturday, June 19 as the...
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Student of Month
As a Senior Leader in Wildcat Country, Jose Chavez Guiterrez knows the formula for high school success. “I try to come to school every day, do my best work, go home and study in order to make the best grades I can,” Chavez says. His approach to school has allowed him...
We Have Spirit, Yes We Do
Last week the West Ashley High School varsity football team officially kicked off the 2014 regular season when they gave the Bishop England Bishops a whipping on the road. Coming into the season ranked #9 in the Lower State, many in West Ashley are excited about this...
A ‘New School’ Paradigm
Usually, when the Charleston County School District builds a new school on an old site, it tears down the original school before construction begins. But just off Ashley River Road, at the conjoined campus housing Springfield Elementary and Montessori Community...
We Are The Wildcats
What is “Leadership?” According to various sources, it’s defined as the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. Throughout history, this term has determined the rise and fall of nations, the success or...
What's In A Name?
There’s something vaguely familiar about West Ashley High School’s new principal, William Runyon; something that hearkens back to his predecessor, Mary Runyon. It’s not the hair: his is shaved black stubble, hers a shock of white. She’s married to local attorney Bill...
Return To Lunch Lady Land
People always seem to complain about school lunches. But, truthfully, I have mostly fond memories of my grade school cafeteria. OK, so it wasn’t haute cuisine, but it wasn’t the worst thing I’ve eaten in my life either. Or maybe those memories of grade school lunches...
Building For The Future
There may be no parent who keeps a better eye on West Ashley’s middle schools than Tamara Avery. Avery, a mother of three, has already moved her family once to make sure her then-kindergarten-aged son could get into Drayton Hall like all the kids he grew up with in...
School Shopping Through The Ages
Properly outfitting the modern kid to attend high school these days is a different experience than it was 30 years ago when it was their parents’ turn to go. And a vastly different experience than it was in Maw-maw and Paw-paw’s day, 30 years before that. In 2014, a...
Four WAHS Students Selected in Apprentice Program
Eleven juniors and seniors from six Lowcountry high schools officially became apprentices June 25 during a signing ceremony for the inaugural class of the Youth Apprenticeship Program in Manufacturing. Four of those students attend West Ashley High School (WAHS)....
Shrek Comes To West Ashley
West Ashley High School’s The Drama Studio will present Shrek — The Musical on May 21, 22, 23, at 7 p.m. in the school’s auditorium. Based on the 2001 animated film that grossed more than any other of its kind, in the capable hands of veteran directors Ellyn Winkles...
