![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)
Candidates Doug Leard and Ed Collins won the two open seats on the Board of Selectmen after the votes from the April 3 election were tallied.
Leard received 1048 votes and Collins received 931.
The other candidates, Susan Pope and Chris Brown, received 885 and 782 votes respectively. There were 248 blank votes and 2 write-ins.
Leard spent six years on the Board of Selectmen from 2003-2009. He and Collins were each elected for three-year terms.
Out of 9,008 eligible voters in Wayland, 1948 votes were cast.
To find out more about the candidates, read the summary of last week’s WSPN-hosted debate.
anon • Apr 4, 2012 at 12:00 PM
oh no
ANGRY MAN • Apr 4, 2012 at 8:19 AM
crap! they're both anti-school helpful! this is terrible!
big federal gov • Apr 4, 2012 at 7:49 AM
proof that no one cares about these meaningless positions. we should sac them all and put an end to useless government spending, most of their jobs could be done by the state government and no one cares about these jobs.