West High’s newspaper, West Side Story, received a George H. Gallup award for the 2014-2015 year. The award is the highest honor from Quill and Scroll, the international journalism honor society. Quill...
West Side Story staffers won 22 awards in the Iowa High School Press Association’s writing, design and photography contest.
The newspaper staff received three first place awards:
Eleanor Ho...
The Iowa High School Press Association named Jaycie Weathers '15 as Iowa's Designer of the Year in their annual contest. Weathers is the West Side Story's Design Editor and the only person in the state...
Pictured above left to right: Isabelle Robles, Michael Moonjely and Allie Biscupski.
The Iowa High School Press Association named Allie Biscupski '17, Michael Moonjely '17 and Isabelle Robles '17...
Pictured in top photo left to right: Jiung Jung, Eugenia Chen and Akash Borde. Pictured in bottom photo left to right: Braedyn Dochterman and Isabelle Robles.
West Side Story staffers win international...
Pictured left to right: Seniors Megumi Kitamoto, Lauren Knudson, Katie Peplow, Lushia Anson and Jaycie Weathers. Not pictured: Kelsey Keranen '16.
The National Scholastic Press Association recognized...
The West Side Story garnered three sweepstakes awards from the Iowa High School Press Association on Oct. 23, winning second place in Graphics, Writing and Photography for large schools for ’13-’14...
The fall themed Instagram contest held by the West Side Story was a hit, with the first place winner being featured in the paper. The rules were simple; the photo must contain some element of fall, from...
The math team won the Cedar Rapids Jefferson competition Wednesday the 8th with a sweepstakes score of 286.667 for varsity and 186 for Junior Varsity. In Varsity, Elizabeth Han...
Directed by The Descendants’ Alexander Payne, Nebraska is set in black and white but the characters, script and comedic knocks are colorful.
Actor Bruce Dern plays Woody Grant, an elderly man who one...
Winter break was a blast of fresh air after several long weeks of school, and by fresh air I mean negative forty degree air. Still, during our long break I was privy to watch both American Hustle, directed...
Anna is a sophomore in her first year on staff. She's the graphics editor for the WSS website, as well as part of the school's band, theatre and sophomore volleyball team. But on her off time, she likes...
