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"You're Part of the World": Wauwatosa West Gifted Mural From Class of 1969

“You’re Part of the World”: Wauwatosa West Gifted Mural From Class of 1969

Avianah Zarnowski, Editor April 12, 2025

“I’m not a person of a lot of words, but essentially, the idea behind it is to move your mind from the literal to the metaphoric,” Jim Koconis stated just moments after his art was hung in the Tosa...

Explain The Game: Tosa West VS Racine Park State Championship

Explain The Game: Tosa West VS Racine Park State Championship

Alijah Jackson March 28, 2025

Wauwatosa West Boys Basketball wins its first-ever state title in the WIAA Division 2 State Championship game in a 60-57 Overtime thriller against Racine Park. This is the first-ever title for Boys Basketball...

Meet the Candidates: Tosa West Students Interview 2025 School Board Hopefuls

Meet the Candidates: Tosa West Students Interview 2025 School Board Hopefuls

Emmersen Weber, Editor March 20, 2025

With the 2025 school board elections on April 1, 2025, Tosa West journalism students conducted Q&A styled interviews to help people gain a better understanding of who is running and why. Candidates...

The State of Wisconsin has used the ACT as the state wide assessment for students since 2015.

ACT & Pre ACT: What You Need to Know

Keira Grusnick and Brandon Wuerzberger March 17, 2025

On Tuesday March 18th, 2025, approximately 750 9th, 10th and 11th grade Wauwatosa West students will be taking the ACT and PreACT. Students should arrive at school at the regular school start time. Students...

Tosa Compass Attends 2025 WNA Convention; Wins Awards

Tosa Compass Attends 2025 WNA Convention; Wins Awards

Avianah Zarnowski, Editor March 10, 2025

On Friday, March 7th, the west side Tosa Compass attended the 2025 Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA) Convention. This was their first time attending since the Covid pandemic began in 2020. The...

Tosa Students Face Parking Challenges

Tosa Students Face Parking Challenges

Josephine Canavan January 29, 2025

For Wauwatosa West and Wauwatosa East students, driving to school isn’t a problem. The problem is finding a place to park their car. Student parking at Wauwatosa School District high schools has been...

Career Connect Offers Students Professional Connections

Matthew Zuege December 19, 2024

Wauwatosa West students had the opportunity to talk to professionals in several different career paths during both lunch periods at the learning center on Thursday, November 21, during both lunch periods. This...

Behind The Desk With Student Supervisor Mr. Gordon

Behind The Desk With Student Supervisor Mr. Gordon

November 14, 2024

Mr. “G” has been a student and parking lot supervisor at Tosa West since 2016.  He is well known for his positive and engaging attitude with students and staff.    What do you typically...

Filipino American author Randy Ribay visits Wauwatosa

Filipino American author Randy Ribay visits Wauwatosa

Charles Andrew Cruz November 14, 2024

Published author Randy Ribay spoke for over an hour at the Wauwatosa Public Library Civic Center on October 2nd, 2024. His talk ranged from reading his most recent book “Everything We Never Had”, to...

Chuck Steward is looking forward to voting for the first time on Tuesday, November 5th

Historic Election is First Time Voting for Some Tosa West Students

On Tuesday, November 5th, millions of Americans will participate in a historical election but for several Wauwatosa West Seniors the election has a deeper meaning. It will be their first time voting. Wauwatosa...

Tosa West Gains new Associate Principal and Dean of Students

Tosa West Gains new Associate Principal and Dean of Students

Evelyn Davis, Devin Long, and Emmersen Weber October 24, 2024

The Wauwatosa School Board approved Kaci Smith as Associate Principal at Wauwatosa West and Krishiana Farago as the new Dean of Students at their regular school board meeting on Monday, October 14, 2024....

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