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VIDEO: VolunTEENS, Part 3
Filmmaker Carolina Moraes-Liu presents a monthly series of videos focusing on how teenagers in Palo Alto are finding ways to volunteer throughout the Bay Area. This third segm... |
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on May 10, 2012 at 9:47 am by parent, a member of the Palo Alto High School community |
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Spare the Air day declared for Saturday
Saturday has been declared the first Spare the Air day of the summer season, according to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
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on Jun 16, 2012 at 5:50 pm by cello, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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School Board Makes it Difficult for Community to Participate
I've given a lot of thought as to why people who feel so strongly about issues having to do with the school board and district leadership do not come to the board meetings to ... |
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on May 10, 2013 at 8:31 am by parent, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Welcoming the year of the dragon
For many of Chinese descent, the Chinese New Year is the most important holiday of the year -- a bit like Christmas and New Year's Eve rolled into one. Festivities for the hol... |
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on Feb 4, 2012 at 8:37 am by Anonymous, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Gunn sisters juggle academics with life at the VA
When Amber and Julie Jacobson tell classmates at Gunn High School they live down the street at the VA Hospital, they're astounded that some say they've never heard of it. Sinc... |
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on Mar 10, 2012 at 9:48 pm by Sister Joann Heinritz, a resident of another community |
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Education: A long view on learning disabilities
After nearly a half-century of working with learning disabilities, Pat Morrissey and Carolyn Compton have witnessed every trend -- as well as the birth of an industry.
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on Jul 19, 2012 at 11:36 am by fan, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood |
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Host an exchange student and bring the world home!
AFS in the Peninsula is looking for host families for our newest exchange students for the 2012-2013 school year! Welcome a student into your home for a school year, a semeste... |
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on Jun 24, 2012 at 12:49 am by Kate C., a resident of Mountain View |
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An ever-charming orphan
If you're a musical-theater nerd — er, connoisseur? — like me, you're probably very familiar with "Annie."
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on May 4, 2012 at 1:46 am by Martha, a resident of another community |
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bike to school day?
I noticed that today is "bike to school day" in San Francisco: Web Link
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on Apr 12, 2012 at 11:40 pm by Chris Kenrick, Palo Alto Weekly staff writerk, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Paly grad Adams proving quite a catch for Fresno State
The Palo Alto High football team saw its season end two weeks ago in the Central Coast Section Open Division playoffs, but one former member of the team is still playing into ... |
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on Nov 27, 2012 at 12:49 pm by John, a resident of another community |
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Downtown Menlo Park
Ah, to live in Downtown Menlo Park. Close to the library, Kepler's, the Caltrain stations and all the shops and restaurants of Santa Cruz Avenue -- and within biking distance ... |
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on Jul 2, 2012 at 3:55 pm by Downtown, a resident of Menlo Park |
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Palo Alto student voices of 2011
Palo Alto Online compiled quotes from some of the local students who expressed themselves in the pages of the Palo Alto Weekly in 2011.
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on Dec 31, 2011 at 3:46 pm by PAFreePress.com, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood |
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Palo Alto teacher salaries compared statewide
The average public school teacher in Palo Alto earns somewhere in the middle -- not the highest, not the lowest -- compared to teachers in surrounding communities.
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on Feb 27, 2013 at 7:05 pm by teacher , a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Toasting with buttermilk
More than 100 students at Jordan Middle School in Palo Alto celebrated their study of the Middle Ages with a Medieval Feast Wednesday and Thursday, March 28 and 29, in the sch... |
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on Apr 12, 2012 at 2:35 pm by mr. smith anon., a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood |
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At JLS Middle School, a global crossroads
Lines of kids and parents stretched out the door last week when Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School celebrated the "Many Faces of JLS" with a potluck dinner and international ... |
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on Jan 27, 2012 at 5:14 pm by Parent , a member of the JLS Middle School community |
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Palo Alto girls' team places first in LEGO robotics competition
A team of eighth-grade Palo Alto girls placed first among 65 teams Sunday in the First LEGO League robotics competition at Legoland in Carlsbad. The girls are students at JLS ... |
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on May 21, 2012 at 8:47 pm by sap, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
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Fairmeadow groundbreaking expected in January
Construction is expected to begin in January on a new two-story classroom building at Fairmeadow Elementary School. The Board of Education Tuesday authorized solicitation of b... |
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on Oct 27, 2011 at 11:13 am by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Popular Kids Make More Dough Later In Life
New subject for Living Skills:
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In jest: I can see report cards ranking st... |
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on Oct 25, 2012 at 9:01 am by Ducatigirl, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Gunn program backs student 'social entrepreneurs'
Gunn High School sophomore Arjun Parikh just got his start-up funded -- an initiative that combines his love of soccer with an impulse to give. Parikh is one of eight student ... |
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on Mar 13, 2012 at 10:21 am by Mary, a member of the Gunn High School community |
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EPA teacher wins award for using tech in classroom
When Robert Pronovost started teaching at Belle Haven Elementary in 2007, the only tech in his classroom was three aging desktop computers. Now, his classroom collection inclu... |
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on Aug 24, 2012 at 9:48 am by Lexie, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood |
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A focus on data, and minding the gap
The new campus of Rocketship Discovery Prep wasn't much more than a vacant lot near U.S. Highway 101 and McKee Road in San Jose a year ago.
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on Mar 25, 2012 at 2:48 am by Stephen F. Deutsch MD, a resident of another community |
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VIDEO: Teens unite at 'Break Through' bonfire
Jade Chamness, founder of Break Through the Static, talks about the Jan. 28 bonfire hosted in Palo Alto and the organization's aspirations to create a peer-to-peer support net... |
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on Feb 2, 2012 at 10:38 am by Becky Sanders, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood |
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Services today for Walter Hays teacher Renee Serventi
Services will be held today, Wednesday, Aug. 8, for Renee Serventi, a teacher at Walter Hays Elementary School who died Saturday, Aug. 4. Serventi, 38, died from complications... |
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on Aug 7, 2012 at 8:15 pm by Moira , a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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EPA teacher named finalist for Presidential Award
A teacher from Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto is among the list of 2012 California State Finalists for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathema... |
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on Jul 31, 2012 at 10:00 am by Mom, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
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No man stands as tall as when he stoops to help a child
Don't know why that old quote came to mind when I saw this
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photo of a five year old in the Oval Office.
Disagree with the man on many issues. But there s... |
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on May 24, 2012 at 11:02 am by anon on El Camino, a resident of Atherton |
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