![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)
The Class of 2026 celebrated its sophomore semi-formal on Saturday, Oct. 14 at Wedgewood Pines Country Club in Stow. Join Co-Editors-in-Chief Talia Macchi and Nadya Chase as they interview the sophomores at semi.
Will Walters, Henry Leider, Annie Melander and Sophie Hill: 00:12 – 1:02
Noah Chasen and Vanessa Taxiarchis: 1:03 – 1:48
Sebastian Chung, Bella Ulep, Stella Snyder and Agastya Paruleker: 1:49 – 3:12
Jeffery Zhang and Eliott Koopersmith: 3:13 – 4:10
Vanessa Ponce and Saisha Oliphant: 4:11 – 4:59
Armaan Desai, Cooper Stowell, Makenzie Macchi and Zoe Garcia: 5:50 – 5:51
Jaxon Margolas and Nahemiah Saint-Fort: 5:52 – 7:07
Victoria Kovalko, Braylen Jenkins, Ryan Chase and Suria Tawakol: 7:08 – 8:15
Ace Germaine and Parker Harrison: 8:16 – 9:17
Ben Hammond and Paulina Ilyin: 9:19 – 9:57
Ethan Alves, Riley O’Driscoll, Albin Valdez and Caoilinn Donohue: 9:59 – 11:13
Nicky Amaral, Rufat Hasanov, Ellen Rearon and Fiona White: 11:14 – 11:54
Griffin Wood, Cooper Stowell and Drew Greeley: 11:55 – 13:25
