Residents return as Palo Alto parks reopen
May 11, 2020
The City of Palo Alto has transitioned into the new Santa Clara County Public Health Shelter in Place Order on May 4, which allows residents to use all parks, athletic fields, tennis courts, pickleball courts, basketball courts, and skatepark after their closing due to COVID-19. Families are permitted to visit these spaces as long as they are obeying social distancing guidelines by staying six feet apart.
To investigate the order’s impact on the community, the Paly Voice visited several Palo Alto parks during the weekend.
![Shounak Dharap, president of the school board of Palo Alto Unified School District, announced Friday morning that Superintendent Don Austin separated from his superintendent position at PAUSD. Corbin Dodd, an Ethnic Studies and AP Seminar teacher at Palo Alto High School, said that Austin's separation from the district surprised him and his colleagues. "Negotiations are happening right now, so there's a lot of talk about the school board and the superintendent, but it [Austin's separation] wasn't on my radar, and I don't think it was on the radar of any of the teachers I've spoken to," Dodd said.](https://palyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IMG_7950-300x225.png)
William Reller • May 11, 2020 at 10:05 am
Today Arastradero and Baylands are not open?
Foothills is open, makes no sense!
Get on with it!