It goes without saying that time moves fast. Time often seems to fly, but it is mostly because we don’t stop to notice its presence. If I checked my height with...
We all remember learning cursive in elementary school. For hours on end, we would take painstaking care to scribe elegant, albeit mostly illegible, cursive form...
To the muffled tune of a banjo on the radio, Paul “Rudy” Schroeter quietly and methodically sorts through a stack of letters. He’s not concerned who they are ad...
Hegene Lee doesn’t consider himself a sneakerhead. And, after pocketing $300 on a pair of shoes he never intended to wear, he still doesn’t consider himself a s...
Amy Watt holds her starting block — a homemade apparatus composed of a hollowed out tennis ball can secured onto a two by four block of wood with a generous amo...
With El Niño, a series of sea-surface temperature changes on the West Coast, approaching quickly, the City of Palo Alto is taking measures to improve San Franci...
Terry Parks circles the chair, glancing up at the mirror, and then back at the man’s head, before lining the trimmer up with the tip of the man’s rugged goatee....
Principal Kim Diorio hopes regular mental health forums are implemented in the Palo Alto High School community for years to come after seeing the impact of the...
Tucked under the grandstands of the Taube Family Tennis Stadium at Stanford University, Palo Alto High School freshman Roberto Rivera and his friends spend thei...
Benedek Tallai may teach in a different classroom each day, but he starts every class the same way. As he runs through a standardized Powerpoint presentation co...
This is Siddharth Srinivasan's (class of '16) third year on staff. He enjoys writing in the Features and Profiles sections. Outside of Verde, he is on the varsity soccer team and is an avid soccer fan.