![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 Marissa Mendoza summarizes stories from the past week with links to the corresponding WSPN article.
News: Editor Marissa Mendoza broke down the commuter rail accident that occurred in Natick on Monday, May 13. Mendoza briefed on WHS’ 2024 junior prom.
Features: Staff Reporter Ainsley Jay wrote about the New Voices Law impacting student journalists. Editor Maddie Zajac produced Unique Wayland abodes: 75 Old Sudbury Road.
WSPN’s Bella Schreiber spotlighted senior Lavery Greenfield. WSPN’S Chloe Zilembo and staff reporter Abby Raftery spotlighted the reality of the paramedic shortage.
Sports: WSPN’s Sofia Ciciarelli and Mendoza wrote about a new gymnastics team coming to WHS in the 2025 winter sports season.
Opinion: Staff reporters Bowen Morrison, Ben Jackson and Alex Evangelista discuss their thoughts on the Boston Celtics playoff run so far.
A&E: Morrison discussed his thoughts on music artists Metro Boomin and Future’s new album: “WE STILL DON’T TRUST YOU.” Staff reporters Tasha Janoff and Vanessa Taxiarchis conversed with this May’s Artist of the Month, senior Abby Wrentmore. Staff reporter Makenzie Macchi shared her favorite skincare products.
Multimedia: Co-Editor-in-Chief Sasha Libenzon produced a gallery on the girls varsity tennis team defeating Waltham.
Podcast: Morrison, Jackson and Evangelista discussed their hopes for the Boston Celtics playoff run this season.
![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)
