At a pickup in the beginning of October, Recology’s garbage trucks refused to collect the waste at Los Altos because students’ poor sorting had contaminated the compost with recyclables.
“The...
January Intersession, a three-day program where students will attend multiple assemblies about life skills, will start when students return from Holiday Recess on Wednesday, January 3.
Every grade...
Los Altos this school year began a process to be accredited for the next six years by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). Schools can only issue valid diplomas with regular accreditation,...
With the Hillview Community Center scheduled for renovation by December 2020, residents are pushing the City of Los Altos to add a new teen center to the Hillview building plan. The town’s existing facilities...
Fencing: A 'physical chess'
Fencing, in the words of senior Sriram Ramamurthy, is different than the sports usually found at Los Altos. It requires precision, extreme accuracy, calculated...
By Maddie Chu, Opinions Editor
| November 15, 2017
In the following interviews, edited for clarity, The Talon features three Questbridge National College Match Finalists and their experiences. Questbridge’s National College Match allows students from...
At 4 a.m. on a summer day in Los Altos, you can see dark houses and hear crickets. But if you drive up to the Hofmann household, you would be able to see three brothers, senior Hayden, sophomore Baylor...
The University of Idaho has a program Los Altos’ Green Team would be envious of: the Green Certification program. The program works to create a sustainable environment through small steps in students’...
Senior Michael Wang has chosen to pursue a career path not often taken in Silicon Valley: music. This year, Michael was accepted as a drummer into the San Francisco Jazz High School All-Stars program,...
After placing fifth out of seven schools in the upper level of the DeAnza League last year, boys basketball hopes to improve their previous 4-8 record and land in the upper half of the league this year....
The age-old question, one that has been debated since the beginning of time: Is marching band a sport? Okay so that might not be the actual age-old question, but it’s one that plagues me fairly often.
August...
Before the 2017 Gymnastics World Championships even began, three gymnasts pulled out of the competition due to injury. USA’s Ragan Smith injured her ankle during warmups. Romania’s Larisa Iordache...
