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Aiden James '28 plays the bass during the concert in his costume.

A Chilling Concert

Raegan Ware, Reporter October 23, 2024

Halloween is right around the corner and many West High students are starting to get into the spooky spirit. Though, one group in particular got to put their costumes on early. The West Orchestra performed...

HotWorx has been around since 2017 and the owner of Hotworx is Stephen P. Smith.

More Workout, Less Time!

Addison Aleksiejczyk, Editor-in-chief September 19, 2024

Looking to elevate your fitness journey? Well HotWorx will do just that in a shorter period of time. It offers its members unlimited, 24 hour access to a variety of virtually instructed infrared sauna...

ELA Mrs. Ray’s 9th grade advisory class has mixed emotions on the early two hour early start

Freshman Frenzy

Reiggan Molloy, Reporter September 18, 2024

August 23, at 8:30 am freshman began flooding the doors of West High School. Instead of an early out like last year, the class of 2028 were able to tour the building and have an earlier start rather than...

Social studies teacher Christine Coyne-Logan hypes up the crowd at the first pep rally of the year.

Spirit in the Nest

Gracie Sade, Reporter September 18, 2024

Go Falcons Go! is what we said when we sent off our boys in red, filled with confidence and school spirit. Before the kick off ever went underway, we held a prep rally for our seniors, football teams,...

The new field is going to resemble the one at Brady Street with some minor changes like there only being one place for fans/parents to sit, and it being smaller due to not having a running track connected to it.

New turf

September 13, 2024

The Davenport West soccer team has wanted a turf field for a very long time and after many years they are finally getting what they have always wanted. Some people might think that the field will be for...

The student section, dressed in neon, join the cheerleaders to do The Falcon Train cheer.

Student Section Spirit

Raegan Ware, Reporter September 13, 2024

“Seniors in the front, freshmen in the back!” Is one of the most common rules heard within the West student section. Whether you're attending a football, volleyball, or basketball game you're bound...

The West High lunchroom during C lunch. Lunch is separated into four lunch periods: A, B, C and D.

Chaos in the Lunchroom

Nolan Collins September 13, 2024

It’s the middle of the day, at the start of lunch. Students enter in droves, some pushing through the line to get their food as fast as possible, others not even bothering to try. It’s a crowded, chaotic,...

Coach Israel Taylor looks on as his players run a wide receiver drill. This is his first year of coaching after graduating from St. Ambrose.

A Change in Culture

Will Earnest, Reporter September 11, 2024

New changes, different outcome? The West High Football team hired four new varsity football coaches for the 2024 season. After a 5-4 record and barely missing the playoffs last season, the team hopes these...

Mr. Gillespie is new to West and to teaching, but is not new to working on school campuses. Before teaching, he worked in schools as a behavior interventionist. He went to college

New Falcons

There are many new staff members this year at Davenport West High School, one being Molly Quinn, the new ELA teacher. Even though this is her first year at West this is definitely not her first year teaching....

This is how the weather was for most of the week and students were playing games outside with shorts and jerseys. The weather was not to the test of many athletes but the athletes will hope for better weather in the weeks to come.

Wicked Weather

Freddy Bitingingwa, Reporter May 23, 2024

The beginning of April has many students doubting their athletic seasons. With only being a couple days into April and many activities getting canceled due to the weather. Some students wanted their game...

“I thought the state competition was good, way more fun than districts. Although it was very professional, we could still have fun. College professors came in and talked to us, which was one of the fun things,” Gustaf said.

West First Time at State

Makenna Burt, Editor In-Cheif May 23, 2024

During the weekend of March 24-26th, six students attended the Iowa FBLA State Leadership Conference in Cedar Rapids. This past school year was the first chapter of FBLA at West High School. Although,...

ISASP starts to roll in as staff and students roll out for the school year.

End Of The Year Testing

Addison Aleksiejczyk, Co-Editor April 16, 2024

As the end of the year slowly approaches, students across the state begin the annual Iowa Statewide Assessment of Student Progress more so known as ISASP. The ISASP is required to be administered to all...

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