Board approves assistant principal’s resignation, librarian’s retirement Annie Chen March 12, 2019 News, Showcase The Palo Alto Unified School District Board of Education accepted assistant principal John Christiansen’s resignation, which will be effective June 30, and librarian Rachel Kellerman’s retirement, which will be...
Passing on the baton Tien Nguyen March 7, 2019 Showcase, Sports Heirlooms have always been a source of connection between generations in a family. Sometimes these tokens are physical objects like a ring or a set of china. But sometimes they are intangibles, like particular ...
Diving into Divorce Annie Chen, Miranda Li and Johnny Yang March 2, 2019 Showcase, Spotlight When junior Sasha Poor was 11 years old, she came home one day and found a brand new book sitting on a bookshelf in her garage, titled “A Smart Girl’s Guide to Her Parents’ Divorce.” A sixth grader at the time,...
Board votes to make changes to Cubberley Anna Meyer March 1, 2019 News, Showcase Palo Alto Unified School Board confirmed three goals for the Cubberley plan presented by Concordia LLC at the Board meeting on Feb. 26. The plans include sufficient area to accommodate construction of a high sc...
City Council approves affordable housing act Kiana Tavakoli February 2, 2019 News, Showcase Fifty-nine families will have access to affordable housing in Palo Alto as a result of the City Council’s recent approval of the Wilton Court development. The proposed housing units on El Camino Real will be av...
Fast Tony’s Chicken’s relocates to downtown Kai Vetteth February 2, 2019 News, Showcase After closing its Town and Country pop-up store on Jan. 5, Fast Tony’s Chicken rebranded as Roost House and relocated to downtown with a new focus on dietary trends and youth mentorship programs, according to o...
PG&E files for bankruptcy following lawsuits Shannon Zhao February 2, 2019 News, Showcase Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), California’s largest investor-owned utility, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Jan. 14 amid the onslaught of lawsuits over the company’s role in the Nort...
From Immigration to Assimilation Jaures Yip, Alyssa Leong, Sophia Moore and Byron Zhang February 2, 2019 Showcase, Spotlight As debates over weighted grades, middle school renaming and a cluster of other concerns rippled through the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) in recent years, an increasingly influential group — Chines...
The coach’s conundrum: To keep or cut Johnny Yang February 2, 2019 Showcase, Sports When Michael Jordan dejectedly walked out of the gym of Emsley A. Laney High School in the cold winter of 1979 after failing to make the high school varsity team, no one could have expected the unwanted player ...
Khoury’s market to open in College Terrace Jeffrey Wang February 1, 2019 News, Showcase Ever since the JJ&F Market was forced to close its College Terrace location in 2013, College Terrace residents have been anxiously awaiting a suitable replacement for their neighborhood grocery store. Now, ...
