![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)
Wayland jams out at the Wayland Music Festival
May 31, 2022
On Saturday, May 21, the first Wayland Music Festival took place on the lawn of the Wayland Town Center. With live music, food, face painting and other activities, the festival attracted many Wayland residents. Sophomores Joss O’Heron, Kyra Spooner and Ellie Barenboyem organized this event through the School Committee Club at Wayland Middle School after several years of planning. It will be held again next year.
Credit: Genevieve Morrison
Wayland residents relax on the grass of the Wayland Town Center. Due to the hot weather, attendees were encouraged to bring their own tents in a Facebook post by sophomore and event leader Kyra Spooner in Wayland Community Forum. "The more shade, the better," Spooner said.
