![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)
For this year’s community-wide reading program, Wayland Reads, the committee selected “The Opposite of Loneliness,” a collection of short stories and essays written by Marina Keegan and published posthumously. Keegan was a Wayland native who died five days after she graduated from Yale University, and her book has since received critical acclaim.
Throughout the month of March, Wayland Reads will be hosting events to discuss the book and some of Keegan’s other works at the high school, public library and other locations. To finish the month long celebration, there will be a reading of Keegan’s play “Utility Monster,” led by drama teacher Richard Weingartner at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 27.
“I was at the Sunday kickoff event in the lecture hall [at WHS], and it was pretty well attended, mostly by older people,” WHS librarian and Wayland Reads committee member Joanne Schmidt said. “The community seems to be embracing the book and the messages of the book.”
The complete list of Wayland Reads event can be found here, and you can read the book’s title essay, “The Opposite of Loneliness” on the Yale Daily News.
