Community unites to commemorate, remember Mischa Nee Annie Chen and Tien Nguyen April 19, 2019 News, Showcase Mischa Nee, a Stanford junior, Paly graduate and former Editor-in-Chief of The Campanile who died recently in a hiking accident, was eulogized last week as a young man who “said yes to life over and over and ov...
Film festival features student submissions Emily Asher April 19, 2019 News, Showcase With videos ranging from comedies to dramas, Paly’s sixth annual film and animation festival took place in the Performing Arts Center on Friday, April 11, drawing a large and diverse crowd of students, parents ...
Former student client discloses personal experiences working with indicted college counselor Rick Singer Noah Baum and Kennedy Herron March 22, 2019 News, Showcase After the indictment of 50 people — some of them Palo Alto residents — in a college admissions cheating scandal, many community members involved in the college admissions process say current admissions practice...
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 project 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...
