66.1 F
Los Gatos

Translate

March 25, 2026

Local broadcaster Pirate Cat Radio expands to Portland

Daniel Roberts climbs a radio tower
Los Gatos-based Pirate Cat Radio (KPCR-LP) has now added a third location to its growing network of low-power FM stations. Its latest frequency is KVBE-LP 91.1 FM in Portland, Ore. Like with its Los Gatos coverage area, the new signal is concentrated in a suburban region...

Congregations come together for Interfaith Thanksgiving Service

They may not have packed a room the way they did in pre-Covid-19 times—when around 1,000 people turned up for the community’s Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service—but the around 125-strong in-person crowd was augmented by additional attendees participating remotely.  Jeffrey Hall, the senior pastor at Los...

Ukrainian festival in Felton Sunday raising money to support refugees here and to send funds overseas

Ukrainian event promo poster
On Tuesday, Morgan Hill-based woodworking business California Craft House had to pull out of Sunday’s fundraiser for Ukrainian refugees set to be held in Felton, co-founder Iryna Kulchytska explained. “We had a death in the family in Ukraine related to war,” she said Wednesday. “My...

Author tackles chess and gender bias

Zhao with May the Best Player Win
Before Kyla Zhao became a talented adult fiction author in Silicon Valley, she was a young chess player in Singapore. Starting at age six, she played throughout her childhood before leaving the chess world after middle school. In her newly released novel May the...

Young accordion student wins scholarship, plays first-ever performance (video)

accordion students
The weekend before his 11th birthday, Los Gatos resident Colin Kennedy was honored with a $500 scholarship at the Cotati Accordion Festival. He also got to perform at the North Bay event Sunday. “It was pretty nerve wracking,” he said, explaining what it felt like to...

NUMU’s throwback exhibit ‘I Know a Place’ invites us to explore a unique mindset

Rick Guidice collage
In 1965, Los Gatos obstetrician Dr. Ethel Dana and a group of locals conceived of the Museums of Los Gatos, believing every town should have a museum that conserves its art and history. Two years later, the Los Gatos Museum Association non-profit was formed...

Article inspires generational transfer of musical instrument

Boy must grow into this accordion
When Virginia Primon was a shy teenager in the 1950s, playing accordion was something that got her onto a community float, to serenade people along the streets of San Jose during a community parade. After going to college to become a teacher, she just didn’t...

Scrappy the Cat is the town’s new unofficial monument

Scrappy the Cat and creator
Scrappy the Los Gatos trash-gato is Lauren Surrette's newest artwork, and it’s creating quite a stir. She started with a turkey for Thanksgiving, and a snowman for Christmas. And now, made from recyclables at home (where she lives with her family), Scrappy the Cat...

Joy to the world of jazz

Janice Maxie-Reid
Though it was a wet chilly Monday evening, just over 100 jazz enthusiasts and supporters gathered, Dec. 22, eager for some cozy winter jazz for the first Los Gatos Music & Arts "Spreading Joy to the World of Jazz—a Holiday Benefit.” The winter fundraiser...

The Graystones looking forward to St. Mary’s Country Fair performance

grid of band images
You can hear the baseline first, melodic and uptempo, backed by a solid drum beat. Then come the vocals, soulful and true. A keyboard lays down some sweet chords, with accents on guitar. The music swells, a horn section chimes in, until the song...

SOCIAL MEDIA

1,102FansLike
4,234FollowersFollow
486FollowersFollow