
Freestyle Academy presents annual end of year exhibition
Ella Persky
Mountain View-Los Altos School District’s Freestyle Academy of Communication Arts and Technology held its annual end of year exhibition last Thursday, less than two weeks after the academy’s students and staff moved into their newly constructed campus. The exhibition featured art, writing, website and film galleries, and gave all students



Mountain View High announces changes to journalism program
Grace Gao and Avni Rajagopal






Strong winds cause electricity outages, fallen trees, injuries across Los Altos, Mountain View and Palo Alto
Grace Gao, Gil Rubinstein and Naina Srivastava













Los Altos gets new mayor, vice mayor, councilmember
Gil Rubinstein




Election Results 2022
Sophia Cheng and Gil Rubinstein

Mountain View High to offer new career technical education courses
Naina Srivastava



First North County clinic to open in fall 2024
Ella Persky


Meet the 2022 Palo Alto City Council candidates
Samuel Stein

Meet the 2022 Mountain View City Council candidates
Naina Srivastava


Meet the 2022 Los Altos City Council candidates
Gil Rubinstein



State bill reveals police military equipment inventories
Gil Rubinstein and Ella Persky


Democratic Volunteer Center reopens in-person for midterm elections
Naina Srivastava




Los Altos seeks input on environmental building codes
Gil Rubinstein










Santa Clara County sees first probable case of monkeypox
Naina Srivastava








PAUSD looks to move mental health services to in-house employees
Tomoki Chien and Grace Gao










A week into optional masking, most students continue wearing masks
Tomoki Chien, Naina Srivastava and Melody Xu


Santa Clara County to lift school mask mandate, following state guidance
Tomoki Chien, Samuel Stein and Naina Srivastava






Santa Clara County to keep indoor mask mandate
Tomoki Chien





Here’s how you can get your free rapid tests and N95 masks
Naina Srivastava

Mountain View High appoints new athletic director
Tomoki Chien

Two new dog parks are coming to Los Altos
Arjun Shah





MVLA staffing at “critical juncture”
Tomoki Chien




First case of Omicron variant detected in Santa Clara County
Tomoki Chien and Naina Srivastava



State Street Market introduces new “after school special” menu
Naina Srivastava



Mountain View bans plastic foodware starting 2023
Naina Srivastava



Mountain View council declares “Stage 1” water shortage emergency
Naina Srivastava


PHOTOS: Homecoming at Los Altos High
Allison Huang and Arya Nasikkar




New Los Altos community center opens in grand ceremony
Siddhant Kanwar


Bomb threat prompts Los Altos High evacuation
Tomoki Chien and Naina Srivastava

MVLA’s mental health resources, explained
Tomoki Chien

City of Los Altos adopts firearm safe storage ordinance
Naina Srivastava



Everything you need to know about the drought, and how it affects Santa Clara County
Melody Xu and Naina Srivastava


Los Altos to reopen city facilities in September
Naina Srivastava

New Los Altos Community Center to open in October
Naina Srivastava



Bay Area counties issue indoor mask mandate
Tomoki Chien













Economy sees full reopening — but some businesses see little practical change
Olivia Hewang and Melody Xu

Hope’s Corner hosts virtual 5K, ‘Five by Five by Five for Hope’
Cedric Chan and Avni Rajagopal
















Mountain View expands local gun control
Carly Heltzel








Hundreds gather for youth-led Mountain View AAPI rally
Carly Heltzel

‘Light at the end of this tunnel’: Gov. Newsom unveils plan to fully reopen state in mid-June
Tomoki Chien and Gil Rubinstein






VIDEO: A look into MVLA’s current in-person learning program
Mia Bassett, Tomoki Chien, Kaitlyn Huang and Cathryn Krajewski



Santa Clara County drops to orange tier
Tomoki Chien


HHS won’t use Moffett Field as detention center
Gil Rubinstein





San Mateo County bumped to orange tier, Santa Clara expected to follow next week
Tomoki Chien and Jonas Pao



At last, PAUSD, MVLA high schoolers return to campus
Tomoki Chien, Jonas Pao and Melody Xu



State gives indoor sports the green light
Tomoki Chien

Anticipating vaccinations, MVLA teachers’ union agrees to April full hybrid return if in orange tier
Tomoki Chien and Carly Heltzel


Calls persist for Los Altos Council Member Lee Eng to resign
Gil Rubinstein


Los Altos seeks input on hiring city manager
Gil Rubinstein







New CDC guidance recommends Santa Clara County schools open for full in-person instruction
Cedric Chan and Tomoki Chien

CIF reverses, allows athletes to participate in same-season club and school sports
Gil Rubinstein and Garv Virginkar

PAUSD to make optional in-person return in red tier
Olivia Hewang and Melody Xu

MVLA board approves in-person return in red tier
Tomoki Chien, Carly Heltzel and Olivia Hewang

County to vaccinate residents age 65 and up regardless of healthcare provider or insurance
Gil Rubinstein and Garv Virginkar





State lifts regional stay-at-home order
Tomoki Chien and Garv Virginkar

Mountain View opens mass vaccination site
Carly Heltzel

Los Altos Police Department to encrypt public radio channel
Gil Rubinstein


SCVAL approves truncated calendar, may have little immediate effect
Tomoki Chien and Garv Virginkar





Teachers speak out against LASD return at board meeting
Gil Rubinstein




As attendance soars, Palo Alto closes entrance to Foothills Park during peak hours
Tomoki Chien and Olivia Hewang


COVID-19 is the projected third leading cause of death in Santa Clara County
Tomoki Chien and Garv Virginkar

VIDEO: Foothills Park opens to non-residents
Tomoki Chien and Cathryn Krajewski


LASD puts in-person learning on pause
Tomoki Chien

PAUSD students suggest changes to District Title IX processes
Tomoki Chien and Olivia Hewang




Through biting criticism, MV City Council votes unanimously to form police advisory board
Cedric Chan and Allison Huang

CIF moves earliest start date to January, scraps season one regional and state championships
Tomoki Chien and Olivia Hewang

MVLA shutters sports cohorts
Tomoki Chien



Los Altos City Council votes to remove SROs from LAHS
Gil Rubinstein

Los Altos task force to recommend elimination of SRO program
Gil Rubinstein

Los Altos City Manager resigns
Tomoki Chien

Paly, Gunn scrap in-person return plans
Tomoki Chien


Santa Clara County under curfew starting Saturday
Tomoki Chien


Santa Clara County has moved back into the purple tier of coronavirus restrictions
Olivia Hewang and Natalie Wei

A conversation about Los Altos police reform with Council Member Neysa Fligor
Tomoki Chien and Gil Rubinstein

Gunn, PALY to return in person along with PAUSD middle schools in January
Tomoki Chien and Olivia Hewang


‘We’ll be hosting our own superspreader’: MVLA administrators present possible plans for in-person return
Tomoki Chien and Natalie Wei

MVLA Superintendent Meyer expresses interest in hiring full-time SRO
Tomoki Chien and Natalie Wei

Demonstrators gather for a ‘count all votes’ rally in Mountain View
Tomoki Chien and Gil Rubinstein
