![Troy Hoyt finishes the Boston Marathon, running for the Hoyt Foundation. T. Hoyt is the son of Hoyt Foundation CEO Russ Hoyt.
“[Running a marathon] might seem like a big thing, when it’s presented to you at first, but if you break it up and just keep telling yourself, “Yes, you can,” you can start chipping away at it. And before you know it, you’ll be running the whole 26 miles, and you won’t even think twice about it.” T. Hoyt said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/C36E8761-1CBB-452E-9DF2-543EF7B1095E_1_105_c.jpeg)
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:
WSPN’s Emma Zocco ran through the last of senior year activities the Class of 2025 are celebrating. Staff Reporter Joey Fay reported on where Wayland seniors are going to college and why.
Features:
Staff Reporter Fiona Peltonen spotlighted non-profit, Open Table. Staff Reporters Melina Antun, Emily Wyner, Karis Tam, Kyle Zhang and Katie Collett wrote about guest speaker Dan Ottenheimer and the impact of listening to Holocaust survivors’ stories. Zhang also looked into how the Wayland community battles antisemitism and hate.
Sports:
Wyner and Tam highlighted how the cost of club sports can affect athletes financially and emotionally. Fay covered the boys varsity volleyball team’s successful season into the playoffs.
A&E:
WSPN’s Melina Barris and Staff Reporter Annabel Orcutt reviewed Met Gala looks and shared their opinions.
Multimedia:
Tam photographed the Wayland High School varsity outdoor track and field team’s quad meet.
![After Massachusetts voted to remove the MCAS graduation requirement, policy makers are reshaping graduation standards. "The top-line understanding is that we’ve moved away from a system that we’ve known for about 24 years, which is one where every school district in Massachusetts had wide latitude to decide what their graduation requirements were in terms of coursework or other experiences, but every single student, in order to earn a diploma, needed to pass the MCAS in one English, one math and one science assessment," Massachusetts Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler said. "We’ve moved away from that now, by virtue of the outcome of [the MCAS] ballot question in November, to a place where communities can still decide what their graduation requirements are, but there’s no requirement for students to pass the MCAS.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/img_3067_720.png)
