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Football players hand out candy during the 2024 Harvest Festival Parade. This was the 102nd annual parade.
Town of Windsor celebrates the 102nd harvest festival
September 10, 2024
New Link Crew members, including Tristyn Bruning (11) and Kale Frederick (11), collaborate with Cammie Smith (staff), one of the Link Crew advisers, in the upper collab space. The meeting was for new Link Crew members to prepare for their leadership role in the fall.
Link Crew makes its way into Windsor High School
May 22, 2024
Seniors enjoy the sunrise at the senior sunrise event in August. Their last day was May 17 and graduation is on Sunday, May 26.
2024 senior class reflects on high school career, gives advice to incoming freshmen
May 20, 2024
Raven Bowman (12), Lauren Huntsman (12), Hanna McKay (11) and Mykalah Lulich (11) sit at the yearbook distribution booth on Wednesday, May 15, during the signing party. The staff spent all year creating the book and sold more than 785 books. (Kerri Cassity)
Yearbook staff finishes book, holds signing party
May 16, 2024
Shannon Cooney (12) and Peter Toms (12) smile for their first and last senior sunrise. Graduation is on Sunday, May 26, at Blue Arena.
Fun-filled farewell: Exploring the exciting activities planned for seniors’ last week
May 16, 2024
"Da Bomb" hot sauce on a cutting board with wings on either side of it.
‘Wizards on Fire’ debuts with staff members taking on the show’s hottest sauces
September 17, 2024
Freshmen watch the activities that Link Crew prepared for them during freshman invasion on Aug. 14. As the incoming freshmen adjust to high school, they've seen highs and lows so far.
Freshmen transition to high school, reflect on the first month
September 13, 2024
Angela Zier (staff) assists students in dissecting the frogs. The students needed to follow a procedure given to them by Zier in order to make sure they understood everything in the dissection.
AP Biology students dissect frogs as a final exam
May 22, 2024
Delaney Kintz (11) reads her AP United States History textbook to prepare for the final exam. Kintz, along with the APUSH exam, took the AP Biology, AP Language and Composition and the AP Research exams.
Students prepared for AP exams with the assistance of school staff
May 22, 2024
Raven Bowman (12), Lauren Huntsman (12), Hanna McKay (11) and Mykalah Lulich (11) sit at the yearbook distribution booth on Wednesday, May 15, during the signing party. The staff spent all year creating the book and sold more than 785 books. (Kerri Cassity)
Yearbook staff finishes book, holds signing party
May 16, 2024
Students and parents peruse dress racks during the "Shop Til You Drop" event at the school on Friday, Sept. 6. Students could try on dresses and pick one to take home for homecoming.
Student Council holds Homecoming dress swap, reduces waste
September 9, 2024
New Link Crew members, including Tristyn Bruning (11) and Kale Frederick (11), collaborate with Cammie Smith (staff), one of the Link Crew advisers, in the upper collab space. The meeting was for new Link Crew members to prepare for their leadership role in the fall.
Link Crew makes its way into Windsor High School
May 22, 2024
Arianna Woolf (10) checks out customers at the concession stand during a basketball game to help Key Club raise money Ella, a 5-year-old with a respiratory disorder who wants to go to Hawaii. Many clubs in addition to Key Club have gotten to raise money and and build wok experience while working in the concession stand.
Concessions benefit WHS clubs, help students acquire skills
April 9, 2024
Treble choir sings for the first time on the new wireless mic system. This concert was on Tuesday, May 14, and was the last concert of the 2023-24 school year.
The choir program performs a final concert, says goodbye to a year they can be proud of
May 22, 2024
Aaden Taylor (10) takes photos and videos of a girls soccer game. Taylor started a photo and video account on Instagram and hopes to turn it into a career.
Sophomore student shares his passion for photography, videography
May 22, 2024
Oliver Lodato (10) and Sophia Jensen (11) pose for a photo with "Ninth House" by Leigh Bardugo. Their first episode of the Soap and Ollie show explores the author's world of secret societies.
Podcast: Soap & Ollie Show – Episode 3 – ‘Ninth House,’ pt. 3
May 22, 2024
Oliver Lodato (10) and Sophia Jensen (11) pose for a photo with "Ninth House" by Leigh Bardugo. Their first episode of the Soap and Ollie show explores the author's world of secret societies.
Podcast: Soap & Ollie Show – Episode 2 – ‘Ninth House,’ pt. 2
May 6, 2024
Rize Simmons (11) performs "Songs for the People" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper at the national Poetry Out Loud competition on Wednesday, May 1. He won the state competition on March 11, qualifying him for nationals in D.C. (James Kegley, Poetry Out Loud)
Rize Simmons wins state Poetry Out Loud Competition, performs at nationals
May 5, 2024
WHS team captains step toward Montbello team captains for the coin toss at the start of the game. The Wizards previously lost their first game 13-19 to the Green Mountain Rams, but they won this game 54-0.
Football team triumphs in the second game of the season
September 19, 2024
The football team of WHS steps onto the field for their first game of the season against Green Mountain on Thursday, Aug. 29. The final score was 13-19, with the Wizards taking a loss.
A thrilling kickoff for the first football game of the season
September 9, 2024
Lindsey Hinson (11) prepares for a play during a softball game. This game was won by the wizards against Fossil Ridge.
The epidemic of mental health among student athletes
May 22, 2024
Abby Toerge (12) serves a play during practice at the tennis courts. The girls tennis team has struggled with spring weather affecting their practices and meets.
Spring weather affects the girls tennis season
May 6, 2024
Landon Scruggs (12) and Sidnei Cumings (12) listen to Eric Johnson (staff) give a speech about moving on and growing up. Scruggs and Cumings were two of the 13 students who signed to play sports collegiately.
Windsor athletes sign to continue their athletic careers in college
May 6, 2024
Aaden Taylor (10) takes photos and videos of a girls soccer game. Taylor started a photo and video account on Instagram and hopes to turn it into a career.
Sophomore student shares his passion for photography, videography
May 22, 2024
Gabby Overholt (12) plays the timpani at the Veteran's Day Assembly on Nov. 10, 2023. Overholt has been a part of percussion since the fourth grade and plans on continuing that passion through college, hopefully making a career out of it.
Senior embodies the drive of arts students
April 11, 2024
Doyleene Hampton watches a gymnastics routine as seen in a photo from the 1977 WHS yearbook. Hampton started women's sports at WHS. (1977 Wizard)
One woman’s love for sports, equality transformed the world of WHS women’s athletics
March 22, 2024
Reagan Annable (10) poses outside the district office where she celebrated going to state. Annable broke the WHS dive record and placed second at state. (Brandy Annable)
Sophomore diver breaks school record, places second at state
March 7, 2024
Susie Tweeton (staff) poses with her four children. Tweeton is the WHS athletics administrative assistant, and all three of her children have gone into high levels of sports.
Athletics administrative assistant continues school legacy
March 6, 2024
Angela Zier (staff) assists students in dissecting the frogs. The students needed to follow a procedure given to them by Zier in order to make sure they understood everything in the dissection.
AP Biology students dissect frogs as a final exam
May 22, 2024
Aaden Taylor (10) takes photos and videos of a girls soccer game. Taylor started a photo and video account on Instagram and hopes to turn it into a career.
Sophomore student shares his passion for photography, videography
May 22, 2024
Doyleene Hampton watches a gymnastics routine as seen in a photo from the 1977 WHS yearbook. Hampton started women's sports at WHS. (1977 Wizard)
One woman’s love for sports, equality transformed the world of WHS women’s athletics
March 22, 2024
Susie Tweeton (staff) poses with her four children. Tweeton is the WHS athletics administrative assistant, and all three of her children have gone into high levels of sports.
Athletics administrative assistant continues school legacy
March 6, 2024
Julia Bohlinger (12) and her teammates discuss their next play. Coaches have said that teamwork is one of Bohlinger's strongest attributes.
Senior wishes WHS volleyball a loving goodbye, welcomes college volleyball career
March 1, 2024

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Freshmen watch the activities that Link Crew prepared for them during freshman invasion on Aug. 14. As the incoming freshmen adjust to high school, they've seen highs and lows so far.

Freshmen transition to high school, reflect on the first month

Michala Taylor, Reporter • September 13, 2024

On Aug. 14, hundreds of freshmen entered Windsor High School with smiles, nervous faces and curiosity. What did the year have in store for them and how would the transition to high school go?  This...

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