![The Wayland Police Department have issued a warning on the rise of scammers during the holiday season. “Hang up [the phone]. if you get a text and you do not know who it's from, just delete it. Don't click on any links, nothing,” Wayland police chief Edward Burman said. “Every single one of them is a scam.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/img_0954_720-e1734676255647.jpg)
![WHS’s Connect Program ran its annual holiday gift drive to fulfill the wishlist of children enrolled in the Dorchester based non-profit daycare organization, the Yawkey Center. This drive brought the town together and impacted both the students in Connect, as well as the greater Wayland community. “You could see how helpful the town was and how our community came together and wanted to help out a community that wasn't our own [and] kids who were less fortunate than we were,” senior and Connect Program member Jordynn Lee said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/screenshot_2024-12-20_at_12.21.24___pm_720-e1734734228474.png)
![The Boy Scouts will be selling trees on Fridays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays noon to 6 p.m. until they sell out.
“This event is one of the things that [the Boy Scouts] get to have a direct impact on the community,” freshman Alex Macleod said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-11-at-8.38.38 AM.png)
Breaking News: WHS COVID-19 restrictions lighten as February break approaches
Credit: Nadya Chase
Tables return to the commons on Thursday, Feb. 10, beginning the school’s phase plan to decrease COVID-19 precautions.
February 11, 2022
After the recent decrease in COVID-19 cases, Wayland High School administration decided to return the tables to the commons. Students will be able to sit at the tables beginning Thursday, Feb. 10.
“The decision was made by looking at a lot of different metrics and deciding that, at this point, it is safe to have students eating in those configurations again with what we are seeing in terms of our testing, positivity rates, COVID-19 spread and things like that,” WHS Assistant Principal Sean Gass said. “[The decision] was made as part of the phase plan to eventually return to ‘normal.’”
The returned tables are the first phase in the wider plan of returning back to how conditions were before the pandemic. The next phase includes reconfiguring the desks in classrooms, which are currently in rows to maintain social distancing. The final phase is giving students the option to remove masks. This plan is susceptible to change given the results of COVID-19 cases after February break.
“Rather than just saying [all COVID-19 precautions] are going to disappear all at once, the district has very smartly decided that we are going to remove [COVID-19 precautions] one at a time so that we can measure whether or not it has an impact on COVID-19 cases,” Gass said.
