Sophie Dewees

Nature Bridge: Connecting Students to the Natural World

From hiking misty waterfalls to exploring pitch black spider caves, NatureBridge, an organization that offers year-round environmental travel programs, aims to...

One Love, One Purpose: Empowering Students to Love Better

Smart, driven, ambitious. Yeardley Love, a promising University of Virginia student, embodied the ideal of a model student. She excelled in school and was a var...

Nonprofit Click PA to host teen job fair mid-April

Intended as a one-stop site for Palo Alto teens to locate internship and job opportunities, ClickPA will host its Teen Job Fair at 2 p.m. April 15 in the Mitche...

Theater Dept. to debut original musical

The Paly Theater Department will perform "Venture: a Musical," an original production directed and written by choir director Michael Najar, in March. ...

More than Music: A Singer’s Reflection on the Wider Impacts of Choir

Every Monday of my life since eighth grade has ended the same way. Near downtown Los Altos, in a small church with paneled floors, wide windows and creaky d...

How to Keep a Travel Journal

Whether they’re describing the herbal flavor of tea in the green English countryside or the sweet smell of flowers and fresh fruit from a market in Spain, trave...

By Immigrants, for Immigrants: Making a Case for the American Dreamers

They waited until the light faded from the sky and the moon rose to its peak. Cloaked in the darkness of midnight, they fled. “Families would cast out in boats...

Plant-based Kitchens: Hunting for the Best Vegan Restaurants

Burgers, cakes and Dumplings might not be what one would expect to find in a vegan restaurant, but among the commonly known vegan chains in the Bay Area such as...