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A Look into BW Teachers’ Preparations for New School Year

October 10, 2024 • No Comments

Being a teacher means passing down years worth of knowledge and education to students, who will further carry on that knowledge and education. However, the value and passion that goes into the act of teaching is not always the...

Key Club Builds Bridges, Assists Local Homeless

September 30, 2024

Key Club has many events coming up for the first semester, but the biggest of...

Nathan Hirst: From Belleville to Broadway

September 4, 2023

For the average high schooler, sports, clubs, work, or other extracurriculars...

Meet the New Staff of Belleville West – Week 3

February 20, 2023

Ms. Periandri Q-What are you teaching at West? A-”I teach math. Geometry...

News

Behind The Scenes of ADHD

Kaitlynn Feldt, Sports Editor

December 14, 2023 • No Comments

Most people have heard of ADHD or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder before, but not many people know what it is and how it affects the daily lives of students who have it,...

West, East Celebrate 100 Years of Band at the Greater St Louis Marching Band Festival

December 14, 2023

This year marks the hundredth year of marching band...

Little Theatre’s 2023-2024 Fall Play: “A Monster Calls”

October 12, 2023

Belleville West Little Theatre is prepared to open...

Belleville West Dress Code Through the Years

October 10, 2023

How does the administration expect the student body...

Sports

West, East Celebrate 100 Years of Band at the Greater St Louis Marching Band Festival

Ellie Geppert, News editor

December 14, 2023 • No Comments

This year marks the hundredth year of marching band at Belleville Township High School. Belleville West and East celebrated with alumni at the Greater St Louis Marching Band Festival,...

Touchdown Belleville West

September 26, 2023

On Saturday 22-8-23, The fans at Bob goalie field or...

Josh Koderhandt Wins State for Boys Wrestling

March 9, 2020

Belleville West has a new state champion. After a...

BTHS Hockey Team Completes Another Successful Season

March 2, 2020

The BTHS hockey team’s season is in the books and...

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Belleville West Dress Code Through the Years

Jaden Gompers, News writer | October 10, 2023

How does the administration expect the student body to follow a rule so flexible and ever-changing when it’s obvious that they do better with structure and regularity, this is a problem that plagues Belleville West students every morning of every day when faced with getting dressed. Dress code is an ever-changing set of rules that will change with time. “You know it’s hard to say, I think...

Is Belleville West Feeling the “Kenergy”?

Eric Perschbacher and Lukas Pellmann | September 21, 2023

The “kenergy” is real for Barbie–the highest grossing film in 2023 according to Global Box Office. Barbie has also become Warner Brother’s highest grossing movie beating The Dark Night made in 2008. However, with Barbie’s popularity, controversy has risen with mixed understandings of the movie’s meaning. While Rotten Tomato rates the movie a solid 88%, websites such as...

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Entertainment

Going Down a “Rabbit Hole” with Little Theatre

Lukas Pellmann, Entertainment Editor | March 14, 2024

Competition season arrives for the cast and crew of Belleville West Little Theatre’s 2024 Contest Drama, Rabbit Hole, by Tom Dudzick. Each year, Little Theatre produces five productions, all of which are viewable by the public and consist of varying genres plus a new cast and crew consisting of all grade levels. These shows consist of Fall Play, Freshman-Sophomore One Acts, Children’s...

The AI Play

Eric Perschbacher | November 16, 2023

The Belleville West Little Theatre is prepared for the Freshman-Sophomore show, The AI Play, written by Don Zolidis. The show is performed only by underclassmen and allows them a chance to experience theater for the first time in a new show every year. “The show is about a girl called Eleanor, who uses AI to write her Great Gatsby paper, and because of that she gets into a really smart school....

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