While many WHS students have pets at home that they love, sophomore Silvija Grava has a passion for all animals. Grava volunteers weekly at a local animal shelter, travels to animal sanctuaries around...
With COVID-19 forcing the shutdown of school, WHS teachers are forced to adopt new ways to make their curriculum available for students online. Teachers have to ensure that they can keep assisting their...
WSPN reporters and co-founders of “Half Hour Hook” Andrew Boyer and Sam White alongside WSPN sports analyst Garrett Spooner continue their new series of episodes called “Homecourt.” This series...
In the weekly series, “In Case You Missed It,” News Editor Taylor McGuire summarizes stories from the past week with links to the corresponding WSPN article.
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Reporter Brasen Chi discussed...
Dr. Arthur Unobskey, Superintendent of the Wayland Public Schools, will be leaving his position in June of 2021. The Wayland School Committee sent out an email to Wayland families on Friday afternoon,...
High school athletes are now facing issues with the college recruitment process as a result of the cancellation of several sports seasons, tournaments and camps in response to the coronavirus pandemic....
In the fourth installment of "Rounding the Bases," WSPN's Josh Schreiber talks with Garrett Spooner and Charlie Moore. Together, they break down the teams in the American League Central Division, and give...
WSPN staff reporter Ellie Smith whips up a classic breakfast favorite: blueberry muffins. They're easy to make and perfect for any time of day, these muffins will be a crowd-pleaser.
With schools already canceled for the rest of the year because of the growing pandemic, it seems that summer trips might be at risk of cancellation as well. COVID-19 is present in every country and has...
Now that school has officially been canceled for the year, students will have even more time on their hands than they already had. What better way is there to spend free time than playing video games for...
In the bi-weekly series Sports Junkies, WSPN’s CJ Brown and Aiden Chitkara give their take on the state of national and local sports. In the thirty-third installment of the podcast, the hosts discuss...
Now that members of Wayland High School have been quarantined for over a month, many are starting to grow restless, bored or tired of the constant self-isolation. Although some are finding ways to entertain...
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![After Massachusetts voted to remove the MCAS graduation requirement, policy makers are reshaping graduation standards. "The top-line understanding is that we’ve moved away from a system that we’ve known for about 24 years, which is one where every school district in Massachusetts had wide latitude to decide what their graduation requirements were in terms of coursework or other experiences, but every single student, in order to earn a diploma, needed to pass the MCAS in one English, one math and one science assessment," Massachusetts Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler said. "We’ve moved away from that now, by virtue of the outcome of [the MCAS] ballot question in November, to a place where communities can still decide what their graduation requirements are, but there’s no requirement for students to pass the MCAS.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/img_3067_720.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)
![Sophomore Silvija Grava feeds Jay the horse in Kanab, Utah. "[I] got to experience a lot of new animals because I previously had only worked with dogs," Grava said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ZtlXl2b2EkK29FrpCM0M2rXg9ObkA0ShpLMRrHSd-900x675.jpeg)
