Flood Fiasco: Residents Reflect on This Year’s Storms Nadia Soberg and Otto Kiss Meyerfreund May 17, 2023
Polio in Palo Alto: Revealing story of epidemic 70 years from the past Asha Kulkarni and Palina Kuzmina October 3, 2022
Five questions with Lydia Kou: New Vice Mayor’s Priorities for 2022 Term Andrew Xue February 28, 2022
![BLOOMING FLOWERS — In place of the current horticultural facilities, Gamble Garden Executive Director Mica Pirie plans on a new complex to be built. " I think of it [the new complex] as a dedicated education space," Pirie said.](https://verdemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IMG_9976-2-1200x800.jpg)
![RAIN RIVER — Palo Alto resident Nana Chancellor said she watched the water rise in the San Francisquito Creek on New Year’s Eve. “The speed at which [the water] rose and came down the street was really shocking,” Chancellor said. Photo: Nadia Soberg](https://verdemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screenshot-2023-03-21-164855-900x323.png)
![JUNIOR RED CROSS: The Junior Red Cross pose for a photo for the 1951 Madrono. Every week that year, the Junior Red Cross visited the hospital to see two Paly students who had contracted polio, including the classmate of Carol Clifford Mitchell, who chaired the JRC in 1952. “I remember she [my classmate] had to use crutches,” Mitchell said. “I think it’s phenomenal that she lived for quite a long time.”](https://verdemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-13-at-6.39.34-PM.png)
