Top Stories, June 19-25

THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR NEWS ARTICLES:

1. : Adding icing to the graduation cake, Newsweek ranked Piedmont High School 83rd on its list of the top 500 public high schools in the country.
2. : A special Father's Day edition of the starring Green Day frontman Billy Joe Armstrong, who got the crowd going while his son Joey played drums with his band Emily's Army at a recent gig in Mountain View.
   
3. : Among the wisdom imparted by faculty speaker Gabrielle Kashani to the class of 2011, "Put down your cellphone." The student speakers had some pretty good lines too.
   
4. : City Council passed a $22 million 2011-2012 operating budget Monday including about $380,000 for the new aquatics fund to supplement revenues generated by the pool.
   
5. : The elementary school on the corner of Lake and Linda Avenues is emptying out and trucking over to Emeryville for the year while the building undergoes seismic retrofits and modernization.

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