![Last Wednesday, the Wayland School Committee gathered to discuss a number of topics regarding the health curriculum and Innovation Career Pathway course. Another large topic of conversation was the ways to potentially mitigate distracting cell phone usage. "These [phones] are going to distract your learning and social relationships," Superintendent David Fleishman said. "That's concrete right there."](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-04-at-9.49.31 PM-1200x886.png)
![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 2005, the high school barely passed the accreditation process. Because of this, according to Yes4WHS, a pro-new building group, renovations would have had to occur on the current high school facility. Yes4WHS says addressing the code violations would have cost up to $46, roughly the same amount of money that the town will be spending, with MSBA aid, on the new high school.
The same year, a different plan for a new high school failed at a special election, by a 2645 to 2005 margin.
The plan approved by voters on Wednesday calls for a two-building design to be built on the current parking lots, with the field house to remain as the main athletic center. Construction will start in the spring of 2011, and students will continue using the current facilities through the projected completion date in 2012.
Nireplah Lisab • Nov 22, 2009 at 12:09 AM
I thought it was the moderator who “then called for a tally to ensure the ayes had the necessary two-thirds majority. In an unorthodox move, he asked that just the nay votes be counted to save time.” And his name is Peter Gossels I think. Definitely not Nolan.
WSPN Editor • Nov 22, 2009 at 7:28 PM
The meeting’s moderator was Peter Gossels, not Joseph Nolan as previously reported. The error has been corrected in the article.