By: Will Collett and Nicky Kilmon By Will Collett The Los Angeles Lakers just won the first ever NBA In-Season Tournament. The NBA In-Season Tournament is a tournament in the middle of the season, and the winning team gets $500,000 for every player on the team. There were some changes from regular season games, most […]
Wayside Gift Drive – Follow Up
By Brady Winkler A little while back, I published an article on the Wayside Gift Drive. After the gift drive ended, the community service club was invited to wrap gifts for the tweens and teens living in residency at Wayside Youth & Family Services Network. I attended the gift wrapping and it was a great, […]
The Importance of Learning the T
By Brady Winkler Imagine that you are at the Prudential in Boston. Now, imagine you are trying to get to Fenway Park. The quickest way is to take an MBTA E train to Arlington, then change to the D branch and get off at Kenmore or Fenway. To me, this seems like something that everyone […]
SpongeBob Musical
by Shree and Laura Who: The WHS Ensemble What: A magnificent play on SpongeBob and the citizens of bikini bottom. Where: At Wayland High school auditorium When: Nov, 16 – 18 In mid November many people went to watch a musical about Spongebob and his peers. This magnificent play was put on by WHSTE (the Wayland […]
LGBTQ+ Youth
By Maggie Reynolds 9% Thats how many American teens identify As LGBTQ Now There’s another number as well 68 Sixty-eight percent of LGBTQ teens are out to their parents What about the other 32%? Why Why are 32% of LGBTQ teens afraid to tell their parents the very people who brought them into existence about […]
WMS Fall Play: The Seal Wife
By ZAHRA KALEEM AND DANIELLA XUE AND RESEARCH DONE BY MAGGIE REYNOLDS This year at WMS the Fall play was called The Seal Wife. It was based on a story from the Scottish myth of the selkies. Selkies are mythical creatures of the sea. They are seals, who when the moon turns full they take […]
Winter Sports at WMS
By Elena Sacchetti, Arianna Desai and Becky Berhe Basketball is a popular winter sport at Wayland Middle School. There are two basketball teams at WMS, a girls basketball team and a boys basketball team. You can get on these teams by trying out for them. Tryouts will be held on December 4th and 5th for […]
Wayside Gift Drive
By Brady Winkler The Wayland Middle School PTO has recently launched a gift drive for tweens and teens living in residency at Wayside Youth & Family Services Network. This organization works to give guidance and shelter to youth 12 – 18 years old who can’t live at home because they are struggling with mental health […]
Strings Concert
By Shree Kotadia and Laura Narvaez The strings concert on October 25 was a spectacular, sensational, spooky concert, filled with people, unicorns, aliens and just about everyone in between. With Ms. Tandon on the podium for one song and Ms. Memoli on for another, everyone knew that this would be the best concert ever. Ms. […]
Keeping our Fields Clean
by Brady Winkler In late September, the field had quite a bit of trash from students eating lunch outside. Mr. Steffey included a slide in the school announcements stating that food and disposable bottles were no longer allowed to be brought to the back of the building and field. Shortly after, there was a second […]