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The Wessex Wire

The Student News Site of West Essex Regional High School

The Wessex Wire

The Wessex Wire

2024-2025 Staff

Ella Hermans
Editor-in-Chief

Ella Hermans

Ella Hermans is the 2024-2025 Editor-in-Chief of the Wessex Wire! She enjoys spending time with her friends and family, listening to music and going to the beach. She plays tennis for the West Essex team, and her favorite show is ...

Brooke Kupferberg
Editor-in-Chief

Brooke Kupferberg

Brooke Kupferberg is the 2024-2025 Editor-in-Chief for The Wessex Wire. She enjoys listening to music, spending time with friends and family and taking naps. She also plays tennis for the school team and loves watching her fav...

Amanda Ippolito
Managing Editor

Amanda Ippolito

Amanda Ippolito is a Managing Editor for the Wessex Wire. She enjoys traveling and spending time with her cousins and friends. In her free time she is either listening to music, playing guitar or watching TV. Her favorite singers...

Sophia Rosen
Managing Editor

Sophia Rosen

Sophia Rosen is a Managing editor on the 2024-2025 Wessex Wire. In her freetime, she enjoys playing tennis and hanging out with her friends. Fun Fact: Her favorite ice cream flavor is rocky road.  

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Digital Director

Logan Goldstein

Logan Goldstein is the Senior Digital Director editor at West Essex. She loves going to the beach to tan and she loves listening to music!

Gabe Herman
Chief News & Features Editor

Gabe Herman

Gabe Herman is the Chief News & Features Section Editor for the Wessex Wire. He is in the class of 2025 and started taking journalism in his freshman year. A fun fact about Gabe is that he loves to cook, travel, and spend time...

Olivia Di Marco
News & Features Editor

Olivia Di Marco

Olivia Di Marco is a News and Features Editor for the 2024-2025 Wessex Wire. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, summers in Long Beach Island, and shopping. You can catch her listening to John Mayer or scrolling...

Dani Tiegel
News & Features Editor

Dani Tiegel

Danielle Tiegel, but you can call her Dani, is a News and Features Section Editor for the Wessex Wire. She does competitive dance and is a cheerleader for West Essex. When she is not at the dance studio, she is shopping, napping,...

Ava Vigilante
Chief Opinion Editor

Ava Vigilante

Ava Vigilante is a 2024-2025 Senior Chief Opinion Editor for the Wessex Wire. She enjoys playing soccer, spending time with friends and family, and going to the beach.

Ava DeRose
Opinion Editor

Ava DeRose

Ava DeRose is an Opinion Section Editor for the 2024-2025 Wessex Wire. She enjoys going to the beach, watching shows and listening to music, especially country. She loves anything to do with summer, pumpkin spice and the holiday...

Alexandra Angelo
Opinion Editor

Alexandra Angelo

Alexandra Angelo, is an Opinion Section Editor for the 2024-2025 Wessex Wire. She loves baking, shopping, and spending time down the shore. When she isn’t doing any of those things, you can find her hanging out with friends an...

Hailey Raymond
Arts & Culture Editor

Hailey Raymond

Hailey Raymond is an Arts & Culture Editor for the Wessex Wire. Her favorite season is fall because Halloween is the best thing to ever exist. If you can't reach her on any platform whatsoever she's most likely ignoring the...

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Arts & Culture Editor

Lena Korenstein

Lena Korenstein is an Arts and Culture Editor for the Wessex Wire. She loves being a dancer and can be found listening to music at any minor inconvenience. Lena makes liking the High School Musical movies her personality, enjoys ...

Adelaide Minnella
Arts & Culture Editor

Adelaide Minnella

Adelaide Minnella, but you can call her Adie, is an Arts & Culture Editor for the 2024-2025 Wessex Wire. She loves field hockey, lacrosse, the seasons of summer and fall, baking, cooking, her favorite show is “Friends” ...

Ava Belli
Sports Editor

Ava Belli

Ava Belli is a 2024-2025 Sports Section Editor for the Wessex Wire. In her free time, she loves to hang out with her friends and family and watch her favorite Disney Channel throwback shows. She spends her summers in Lavallett...

Justin Misher
Sports Editor

Justin Misher

Justin Misher is a 2023-2024 Sports Section Editor for the Wessex Wire. He enjoys watching the Knicks, Giants and Mets, hanging out with friends and going down the shore. His favorite food is steak and his favorite TV show is Fri...

Carly Levitt
Sports Editor

Carly Levitt

Carly Levitt is the Wessex Wire's 2024-2025 Sports Section Editor. She enjoys playing tennis, hanging out with friends, and rooting for the New York Giants, Rangers, and Knicks. Carly enjoys listening to music, baking, and spending...

Annika Johnson
Visual Media Editor

Annika Johnson

Annika Johnson is a visual media editor for The Wessex Wire. In her free time, she'll either watch a hockey game on her couch or at the Devils arena, cheering on her favorite players like Nico Hischier or John Marino. One of her...

Brooke Cheifetz
Visual Media Editor

Brooke Cheifetz

Brooke Cheifetz is a 2024-2025 Visual Media Editor for the Wessex Wire. She enjoys playing soccer, watching the New York Yankees and New York Jets, and spending time with her friends. She loves listening to music, especially Luke...

Naya AlZarabili
Staff Writer

Naya AlZarabili

Naya AlZarabili is a Junior Staff Writer on the Wessex Wire and enjoys expressing herself through not only literature, but other artistic outlets like film and music! She spends the majority of her time reading or visiting local...

Evan Hines
Staff Writer

Evan Hines

Evan Hines is an apprentice editor for the 2023-2024 Wessex Wire who specializes in arts & culture articles. He loves listening to music, watching movies/T.V. shows and hanging out with friends in his free time. He is a huge...

Ila Eisenstein
Apprentice Editor

Ila Eisenstein

Ila Eisenstein is an apprentice editor on the 2024-2025 Wessex Wire. She plays on the West Essex girl's JV tennis team and is a dancer. Ila likes to spend time with friends and family. She loves spending her summers at sleepaw...

Gabriela Koshnick
Apprentice Editor

Gabriela Koshnick

Gabriela Koshnick is an apprentice editor for The Wessex Wire (2024-2025). When she isn't working on keeping her grade in the A range, you can find her listening to music in the hallways. She enjoys writing poetry and churning...

Sasha Dionisio
Apprentice Editor

Sasha Dionisio

Sasha Dionisio is a 2024-2025 apprentice editor for The Wessex Wire. In her free time you can find her writing up articles, reading her favorite books, watching a Manchester United match or at the rink figure skating. She loves...

Lea Romar
Apprentice Editor

Lea Romar

Lea Romar, pronounced Lay-Uh, is an Apprentice Editor for the 2024-2025 Wessex Wire. You will always see her smiling and singing. She loves musical theater, spending time with her best friends, and binge watching Netflix. She...

Grace McGovern
Apprentice Editor

Grace McGovern

Grace McGovern is an apprentice editor for the 2024-2025 Wessex Wire. She enjoys spending time with friends, family, traveling and shopping. When she isn’t doing any of these things, you can find her playing basketball or listening...

Mina Wakeshima
Correspondent

Mina Wakeshima

Mina Wakeshima is a sophomore correspondent for The Wessex Wire. In her free time you’ll find her reading, hanging out with her friends, playing the ukulele, writing and watching her favorite movies, The Lord of The Rings or...

Mia Russotto
Correspondent

Mia Russotto

Mia Russotto is a Senior Correspondent on the Wessex Wire. She is the captain of the West Essex Varsity Dance Team and is a cheerleader as well. When she’s not dancing or cheerleading, you can find her hanging out with frien...

Chris Hermosilla
Adviser

Chris Hermosilla

Chris Hermosilla is the adviser to the Wessex Wire. His free time is divided at home between his wife, his daughter and his dachshund. Fun fact: Before teaching English and Journalism at West Essex, Herm worked as a reporter and...