![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)
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The girls’ volleyball team lost their home game against Concord-Carlisle 3-0 this past Friday.
The girls had played Concord-Carlisle previously this season and lost 15-13 in the fifth game but were unable to change the result this time around.
With the loss, the team has an 8-7 record and is looking for one more win to make the post-season tournament. If they are successful, this will be the first tournament appearance for all of the team members. Many of the players believe that team chemistry has been an important key to the team’s newfound success.
“Everyone on the team has bonded, so everyone works really well with each other,” junior TK Whitesell said.
At first, many of the team members didn’t think this season would be successful because six seniors graduated off last year’s team.
“It would be a really big deal to make tournament,” senior captain Alex VanRooyen said. “We assumed this would be a building year, and the fact we’re doing so well is really surprising.”
The team has three more chances to make tournament with away games against Waltham and Bedford and a home game against Lincoln-Sudbury, which will be the team’s senior night.
![Wayland High School Class of 2019 alum Devin Wong is the new assistant coach of Harvard University Nordic Ski Team. "I’m excited to be a part of a new team and coaching staff am motivated to learn from [head coach] Cate Brams and grow as a coach and wax tech," Wong said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/09-27-24-NSKI-Wong-Announcement-1920x1080-1-e1730466291327-1200x704.jpg)
