![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)
A splash of color: Students participate in Color Blast
December 2, 2022
Students participate in the annual Color Blast event on Monday, Nov. 21. Color Blast is an event that the Wayland High School Student Council holds each year to kick off Spirit Week. Each grade is assigned a wing of the high school to decorate with its own unique color. The freshmen are assigned green, sophomores are blue, the juniors are red and the seniors are orange and black. On Wednesday, Nov. 23, student council advisor and English teacher John Keene announced that the Class of 2026 won Color Blast.
Credit: Carolina Sdoia
Freshmen Kiera Hynes, Noah Goldstein, Bella Ulep and Vanessa Taxiarchis display their sign painted with the word, "frosh." "Frosh" is a slang word for freshmen.
