The annual Advanced Authentic Research showcase celebrating student research and innovation took place on May 18, in Palo Alto High School’s Media Arts ...
"Palo Alto is ... notorious for being a tough district for administrators,” outgoing Palo Alto High School principal Kim Diorio says. “It has that reputation th...
Rendezvousing in the library would be safer, we decided. Safer than her apartment, where two out-of-place teenagers knocking on her door in the middle of the da...
Although the sky is a little overcast, the glass-colored sidewalk of California Avenue glistens as we pass by the supermarkets and office buildings....
The ice cubes in a jumbo cup of soda have all melted. Police dispatch scanners accompany television broadcasts, squeaking out a static-filled report once in awh...
Amid the chatter of his peers, Rayshaun Jordan, a senior at Eastside High School, rolls up the sleeves of his red and white Eastside hoodie and gestures purpose...
"If you took a minute of silence for each , we’d have the equivalent of 66 years of silence,” says Vince Crisostomo, a program manager at the San Francisco AIDS...
A young girl gleefully glides across the ice at Union Square in San Francisco, laughing in delight as she weaves around the legs of adults who tower above her. Suddenly she wobbles and crashes to the ground, and begins to cry. Her father picks her up, dries her tears and brushes off the flecks of ice stuck to her pastel blue puffer. All is well again.Families and couples swarm around the father-daughter-duo, all here to enjoy the ambience of Union Square during the holidays. A larger-than-life
A CalTrain roars through the University Avenue CalTrain station in a blur of red and silver, creating a large gust of wind that tousles hair and threatens to bl...
Frances Zhuang, a member of the Palo Alto High School Class of 2018, is Verde's Features Editor. She loves journalism for its power to bring untold stories to life and investigate society's most controversial issues. Outside of journalism, she enjoys reading and music.
