Local High Schools Plan In-Person Graduations
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Community Your Health Your Home Los Altos Hills resident Community Health From the ground up: Nobuko Saito Cleary Awareness Council’s Mountain View’s honored for fostering teen advisers promote Soil&Water Garden U.S.-Japan relations mental health strategies cultivates community Page 10 Page 19 Page 25 Vol. 74 No. 21 • 50 cents losaltosonline.com WEDNESDAY • May 26, 2021 Community news for Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Mountain View since 1947 County moves into lowest risk tier, pandemic restrictions ease further ERIC DAVIDOVE/TOWN CRIER FILE PHOTO Mountain View and Los Altos high schools held drive-in gradu- ation video viewing ceremonies last year due to the pandemic, above. This year, the schools are planning outdoor ceremonies with social distancing. Local high schools plan in-person graduations ZOE MORGAN/TOWN CRIER Walgreens pharmacist Megan Shang gives Zakari Ladwig-Scott a COVID-19 vaccine shot at a May 23 By Zoe Morgan tos high schools are scheduled clinic on Foothill College’s campus. For more on Foothill’s efforts to vaccinate students, see page 17. Staff Writer/[email protected] to hold their graduation cer- emonies June 4 at PayPal Park, By Zoe Morgan tive tier in the state’s reopening state-level restrictions the yel- ocal high school seniors the soccer stadium where the Staff Writer/[email protected] framework, and local officials low tier confers, county health are set to walk the stage San Jose Earthquakes play . Los are eliminating many of the officer Dr . Sara Cody rescinded Lat graduation next month Altos High seniors will gradu- ith COVID-19 cases safety requirements that had the county’s existing health or- with their classmates in a live, ate at 4 p m. , . with Mountain falling and vacci- previously been in place . der and replaced it with a less in-person ceremony, albeit one View’s ceremony at 7 p m. Wnation rates rising, The county entered the yel- restrictive one . that still includes pandemic pre- Each graduating senior is Santa Clara County last week low tier, the lowest level, May “We are in a very different and cautions . allowed four spectators, and moved into the least restric- 19 . In addition to the loosened See COVID, Page 5 Mountain View and Los Al- See GRADUATION, Page 7 Los Altos City Council resolution backs activist, calls for unity By Bruce Barton in a long-running dispute with about third-party oversight, Town Crier Staff Writer an Asian-American council To find out the results of the council Moos sent Lee Eng texts express- member . The meeting occurred meeting, visit losaltosonline.com. ing opposition over her decision . he Los Altos City Coun- after the Town Crier’s Monday He wrote that her name “will be cil was scheduled at print deadline . Moos in his assertion that he was Moos at a meeting last Novem- all over the papers,” prompting TTuesday’s council meet- The text of the resolution, unfairly targeted as a source of ber . 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