![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 articles.
News: Editor Marissa Mendoza and Staff Reporter Ainsley Jay interviewed the Class of 2028’s presidential and vice presidential candidates. Jay also wrote the results of the freshman election.
Opinion: WSPN’s Melina Barris discussed the unnoticed stress during her senior year fall.
“After an academically draining junior year, I was excited to begin my stress-free senior year,” Barris wrote. “Little did I know that senior fall is far from relaxing.”
A&E: WSPN’s Carolina Sdoia reviewed the new series “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.”
“If you get engrossed by true crime, then I would highly recommend tuning in to watch this show,” Sdoia wrote.
Multimedia: WSPN’s Penelope Biddle photographed the crew team’s first regatta of the fall season. WSPN’s Emma Zocco and Staff Reporter Vanessa Taxiarchis produced a gallery on the girls varsity soccer team’s tie against Boston Latin School. Meanwhile, Co-Editor-in-Chief Sasha Libenzon captured the varsity football team’s win against Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.
Broadcast: Staff Reporters Jessi Dretler and Ben Jackson and Sdoia broke down Wayland’s news in Weekly Breakdown Episode 94. Dretler and Sdoia interviewed freshmen about their high school experience thus far. Meanwhile, WSPN’s Bowen Morrison, Staff Reporter Alex Evangelista and Jackson continued with their fourth discussion on the New England Patriots’ performance so far in the 2024 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)
