Imagine you find yourself in a room full of people from all around the world, representing their own countries. The members of Switzerland are debating their trade regulations while members of Costa Rica...
When students entered the lecture hall on Tuesday morning to see the Wayland Cares presentation, they may not have been expecting to be the ones presenting. Nevertheless, Wayland Youth and Family Services...
Each weekend, local small businesses head to Russell’s Garden Center's annual Winter Farmers Market to sell a variety of goods. The products range from baked goods to ice cream to fresh produce. The...
After listening to her phone blow up with texts and messages around 2:00 p.m., Wayland Public School’s Director of Technology Jenn Judkins opened her inbox to receive a shocking email on Jan. 7. The...
With the second quarter and first semester of the 24-25 school year at WHS coming to an end, some people have mixed emotions. Exams are just around the corner and students may feel stressed or anxious...
Students at Wayland High School (WHS) have a unique variety of additional electives they can add to their schedule, one of which is the class “Intro to Innovation Pathway.” Innovation is a class where...
Every holiday season, Wayland hosts a variety of drives around the community to help those in need. This year, multiple drives took place all around town at multiple different schools. These drives were...
Imagine waking up on a chilly winter morning and looking out the window to see your front yard covered with a foot or more of fresh snow. While this may seem like a realistic Massachusetts morning in winter,...
Family vacations aren’t typically where athletes find their sport, but for junior Ella Neuman, that’s where it all began. While on vacation, she was introduced to the sport of fencing by her family...
Wind blowing, heart racing and feet pounding on the ground, senior Luke Chisum rounds a corner to see the finish line. Chisum started cross country in sixth grade and has run his way up to being a National...
Deep into Main Street in Wayland, there is a house that overflows with holiday cheer. Wayland residents Lesley Stewart and Alistair Stewart decided that each year it would be their mission to deck out...
![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)
![On Tuesday, Jan. 28, Wayland Cares director J Verhoosky led a presentation on the importance of choosing to be vulnerable in conversations. Through various activities and experiments, the audience was instructed to confront how they approach risk taking and their comfort zones. “[My biggest takeaway was] make yourself available for other people and share things you might not share with other people to make them feel like they're in a safe environment,” junior Addison Voight said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/JLb1q3m4ZHvNAKYzv7c60kyyrrafzS8pJlYoJcoj.png)
