Wayland Town Crier 11/29/12: Wayland High School earns award for being green. Wayland High School was among nine schools in Massachusetts that earned CHPS (Collaborative for High Performance Schools) Verified status, an elite award for healthy, high performance green school buildings.

The Wayland High School Building Committee is scheduled to meet on Thursday, August 16 at 7pm in the School Committee conference room.

At the High School, the site work is nearly complete with all parking lots paved and striped. Work continues on hardscape and plantings in the courtyard between the North and South buildings. Tree, shrub and grass planting are complete near the visitor parking area at the main entrance. Work continues on a few remaining items in the buildings and parking lots.

John Moynihan, the town's public buildings director, reports, "We have reached the point where it is safe to allow access to the site for events held on the fields. As of August 1, 2012 the fields are open for business. Thank you all for your patience and cooperation during the past 24 months."

The Wayland High School Ribbon Cutting and Dedication is scheduled for Thursday, August 30 at 10am in the Commons (North Building). Tours of the new High School will be offered after the ceremony. The community is welcome to attend.

For more information on the building project visit the HSBC’s website.

Wayland Town Crier 1/30/12: Schedule of dismantling old Wayland High School. The Wayland High School Building Committee (HSBC) is scheduled to meet on Thursday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. in the School Committee conference room in the Wayland Town Building. The project team met with neighbors to the High School last week to discuss the next phase of the building project – abatement and demolition of the old buildings. Abatement (removal of asbestos containing materials from the buildings) has been going on since early January and is now complete.

Wayland Town Crier 1/25/12: The long and winding journey to a new school. Walk into any room at the new Wayland High School and you can feel the personality of the place. It’s not just the colorful tile or whimsical light fixtures, not the natural light that reaches even interior rooms through skylights, not the multi-hued theater seats or the inviting courtyard benches that make the campus radiate a comfortable liveliness. It’s the personalities of the dozens and dozens of people who gave their best efforts to create a place designed to deliver quality education well into the 21st century. The fingerprints of school personnel from superintendent to janitor, townspeople and committee members, parents and students, are everywhere in the design. Together, over a period of a decade, they created a place where children can learn and a community can gather.

Wayland Town Crier 1/10/12: Construction crews continue to operate at Wayland High. The Wayland High School Building Committee (HSBC) is scheduled to meet on Thursday, Jan. 12 at 7 p.m. in the lecture hall on the second floor of the South building in the new Wayland High School. On Jan. 3, students and staff returned from the holiday break and started school in the new buildings. The old campus is now fenced off and inaccessible to the public. Construction crews will continue to operate Monday to Saturday with occasional extended hours during the week. The demolition and asbestos abatement in the old campus buildings is ongoing in two consecutive shifts from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. These two activities will continue into late February.

Wayland Town Crier 1/4/12: A historic day for Wayland High School. A new 157,000-square-foot facility opened its doors for Wayland High School students on Tuesday. Principal Pat Tutwiler welcomed the students and staff into their new school on the first day back from winter vacation. He thanked the many volunteers and school staff who devoted “maybe thousands” of hours to getting the new school built and preparing for the move. “We need to be mindful that this is a very important day in the town and the High School’s history, and it only comes along once in every 50 years,” he said, alluding to the fact that the old building, now slated for demolition, dated back to 1960. “As such, it’s appropriate for us to reflect and to extend credit and thanks where they’re due.” In particular, Tutwiler noted the commitment of the High School Building Committee (HSBC) members.

Wayland Town Crier 1/4/12: A new year, a new school in Wayland. As Wayland High School students marvelled Tuesday at their sparkling new $71 million high school, Principal Pat Tutwiler suggested they may want to use some of the facility’s tech goodies to thank building committee members. “They worked not for any selfish motives, but because they wanted to see you, the students, well served in a facility that you deserve,” Tutwiler said. “We have lots of electronic access in the new building and it would be a classy thing for you to get online, to Google the HSBC, and to thank them.” “As such, it’s appropriate for us to reflect and to extend credit and thanks where they’re due.” The new 157,000-square-foot facility opened its doors for students Tuesday.