Bryn Curtin, Class of 2023, is a first year reporter for WSPN. She plays for the high school’s field hockey and softball teams. Outside of school, she enjoys listening to music, watching movies, painting, and taking photographs with friends.
![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)
![Pool testing centers have been set up in two school hallways as a new COVID-19 preventative. It is now mandatory for students participating in extracurricular activities to get tested. “It checks weekly to make sure people aren't sick, and [students] could catch an asymptomatic case which might not be noticed otherwise,” sophomore Patricia Pak said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Screen-Shot-2021-05-23-at-10.45.53-PM-900x585.png)
