How have professional sports teams fared during the pandemic?
Tanner Curtis, Staff Writer
September 30, 2020
The New York Yankees and Washington Nationals stepped on the field on July 23 for the first game of the 2020 Major League Baseball season. And when that happened, major professional sports in America ended a more than four-month hiatus that began on March 11 when the National Basketball Association...
Online concerts replace live music shows during pandemic
Michelle Nguyen, Features Editor
September 30, 2020
With the popularity of online streaming, many artists find it hard to keep afloat as physical and downloadable sales plummet. Before Miss Corona took over the charts, musicians resorted to touring as a major source of revenue. But with concerts out of the question, artists scrambled to prevent an...
Which streaming services are best for you?
Garrett Allen, Staff Writer
September 30, 2020
Prior to March 13, the streaming services I used when watching shows or movies didn’t appear to me as important. But then COVID-19 struck, and the whole world was put on pause. Movie theaters closed and my daily activities were relegated to trips to the fridge between hours of sinking into a ...
School board needs to get campus reopening right this time after the disaster of last summer’s decision-making process
Staff Editorial
September 28, 2020
With the San Ramon Valley Unified School District Board of Education scheduled to further explore how to safely reopen school campuses for more than 32,000 students and 3,500 employees beginning Tuesday night, it’s important to closely scrutinize trustees’ decision-making process on this issue when...
San Ramon community protests SRVUSD spending and issues with remote learning
Nick Harvey, Opinon Editor
June 27, 2020
San Ramon Unified School District parents organized a sit-in protest on Tuesday in front of the district office before the Board of Education meeting to show both their opposition to management raises and support for allowing students to return to campus in the fall. Approximately 75 individuals showed...
District board supports students returning to campus full time in the fall
Christine Oh, Co Editor-in-Chief
June 24, 2020
Students in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District will return to campus full-time in August if the school board has its way. The district’s Board of Education said it unanimously supports having students on campus for a full-time in-person schedule during Tuesday night’s meeting streamed...
Pro sports are slowly starting up again
Andrew Sousa, Sports Editor
June 15, 2020
With most states slowly reopening, the hope for the return of professional sports has reopened as well. Specifically in California, 51 of the 58 counties have entered or will soon enter Phase 3 of Gov. Gavin Newson’s plan, which includes the reopening of live professional sports, albeit without...
Pet adoptions have increased during shelter-in-place
Wyatt Golla, Staff Writer
June 8, 2020
During the coronavirus pandemic, something interesting has happened: animal adoption rates have increased. This adoption boom isn’t just happening in one or two states. In nearly every state, pets are being adopted from shelters at a startling rate. Since animal shelters are deemed...
Pandemic puts the movie industry on hold
Tyler Aronson, Staff Writer
May 23, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has written a new script to the movie industry and how the world will experience cinema in the future. Many films originally set to have a release date this spring were pushed to the fall or 2021 because of the mass closure of theaters. To avoid further delays, some...
San Ramon community spreads positivity amid the pandemic
Emmy Burrus, Co Editor-in-Chief
May 22, 2020
Since March 17, counties across the Bay Area have been on a strict shelter-in-place order to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Despite being stuck indoors for the most part, people have still been finding ways to spread positivity within their neighborhoods. Many people have been leaving positive...