Swimmers take precautions
The swimming and diving team is reentering the pool just as Santa Clara County enters the red COVID-19 tier. With 65 students combined across the varsity and junior varsity teams, these athletes are practicing ...
Is the next virus avoidable?
Hoarding toilet paper. No Clorox wipes in stock. Empty food shelves. When the pandemic arrived, the world panicked. We prepared for what felt like the apocalypse, stocking up on random things and expecting to n...
Santa Clara County to enter Red Tier Wednesday
Santa Clara County will enter the Red Tier on Wednesday, March 3, county health officials announced today in a press release.
Santa Clara County is one of seven counties in California moving to the state's s...
Students continue to interact with college representatives virtually
It is 7 a.m. on a Monday morning and senior Lexi Gwyn is up preparing for a virtual college information session. Scribbling in her notebook, Gwyn jots down a list of questions to ask the school’s representative...
Lights, webcam, action!
Makeup, clothes and props ready, junior Arnav Singhal looks into the camera, preparing to put on one of the semester’s biggest plays for a faceless audience. This year, he is performing at home, with a greenscr...
Senior Sadness
For the class of 2021, instead of becoming a Second Semester Senior, it faces the prospect of Seasonal Senior Sadness. With the COVID-19 pandemic raging, college application season in full gear and the loss of ...
Preseason practices begin under COVID regulations
When then-junior Diego Mazzon had his swim season cut short at the end of the 2019-2020 school year, he never expected that when he returned to captain the team this year, COVID-19 would still be haunting Paly ...
Elementary schools begin to reopen
Kindergarten and first grade students returned to district campuses and began in-person learning on Oct. 12, with other grades to follow in the coming weeks.
This decision was voted on by the Palo Alto Unifi...
The positives of online learning
Classrooms? More like class Zooms. While schools are now taking place online in the comfort of our own homes, students are still divided on whether or not the benefits of comfort outweigh the costs of decreased...
Students support local restaurants during covid
Jing Jing, a Sichuan and Hunan gourmet restaurant, has been a staple of Chinese food in downtown Palo Alto since 1986. At a time when the restaurant industry is struggling, owner Betty Tsai is appreciative of t...