![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)
News Brief (UPDATED): Students receive Trump campaign email
Above, a student reads an email thanking recipients for susbcribing to Trump campaign messages. All students received this email on Saturday, December 17.
December 19, 2016
On Saturday at 7:04 p.m., all WHS students received an email from president-elect Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters thanking them for subscribing to campaign emails and soliciting donations.
On Sunday, all WHS students received another email asking them to either confirm their subscriptions to the Trump campaign’s emails or ignore the message.
Trump, a Republican, was elected president on November 9. He won 46.0% of the popular vote and 306 electoral votes. Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton won 48.1% of the popular vote and 232 electoral votes. According to the Wayland town clerk’s office, 19.5% of Wayland voters cast their ballots for Trump.
UPDATED (12/21/16): WHS Principal Allyson Mizoguchi sent out an email to the student body Wednesday announcing that public access to high school student email groups is now closed. Mizoguchi said that administration suspects someone, possibly a student, signed student email groups up for Trump campaign messages.
