![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)
In the weekly series, “In Case You Missed It,” News Editor Selena Liu summarizes stories from the past week with links to the corresponding WSPN article.
Sports:
Staff Reporter Bowen Morrison briefed the Florida State University (FSU) v. Boston College (BC) game and wrote about the teams’ history. Meanwhile, WSPN’s Katya Luzzarraga and Selena Liu produced a news brief on the Wayland vs. Boston Latin football game.
Multimedia:
Staff Reporter Jane Tardif photographed the girls soccer team’s loss to Weston. Co-Editor Sasha Libenzon produced a gallery on the boys soccer team’s loss to Westford Academy in the Kicks for Cancer tournament.
A&E:
WSPN’s Mischa Lee reviewed Madison Beer’s album “Silence Between Songs.”
“‘Silence Between Songs’ is truly a deep and emotional album,” Lee wrote. “It goes through heartbreak, trauma, family relationships, mental health and growing up.”
Opinion:
WSPN’s Ryan Chase discussed the controversy of Rachel Zegler. Meanwhile, WSPN’s Jeffery Zhang wrote about Lamine Yamal being a 16-year-old phenomenon.
Podcast:
Editor Abby Raftery looked back on nationals with Wayland-Weston crew members.
![Join WSPN’s Marissa Mendoza, Edge Wheeler, Ainsley Jay, Bowen Morrison and Sofia Ciciarelli as they cover seniors’ involvement in the election and the viewpoint from a WHS educator. “[The election is] a really toxic environment,” WHS history teacher Katherine Bassen said. “It would be disingenuous for me to say, ‘oh, everything's going great.’ Obviously it's not, right?”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_0282-1-1200x800.jpg)
