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Senior nutrition program scores 35K grant; high school district adds to admin roster; free sandwiches (local scene)
Live Oak Receives 35K Grant
The Los Gatos Foundation for Older Adults to Thrive announced Feb. 29 a $35,000 grant to the Live Oak Senior Nutrition Center to address a shortfall in funding for senior meals in Los Gatos.
The grant came from the Successful Solutions...
Raising a glass to Alamitos Vineyards, named top new winery by USA Today
The Wineries of Santa Clara Valley announced that one of its member wineries, Alamitos Vineyards, 23505 Alamitos Road in San Jose, has been voted the Best New Winery Experience in the nation by USA Today.
Despite being open less than three years, Alamitos Vineyards has...
Mathletes killing it; ‘Edge of Anthropocene’ art; earthquake grants (local scene)
59 students from Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District have qualified for the American Invitational Mathematics Competition (AIME), while a group exhibition "Lost Wild - Art On The Edge Of The Anthropocene" opens Feb. 1 at Whitney Modern in Los Gatos.
Vine-to-Wine; Adaptive Arts college founder recognized; Sanborn Park cleanup (local scene)
Vine-to-Wine event set for Nov. 4 at Mountain Winery
The Wineries of Santa Clara Valley will be hosting its third annual event on Nov. 4 from 1-7pm at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga.
Vine-to-Wine celebrates the end of harvest and highlights Santa Clara...
Denise Rocchi named new Saratoga Postmaster (local scene)
On July 20, Denise Rocchi followed a tradition dating back to 1855 when Levi Millard was the first Postmaster of what was originally called the McCarthysville Post Office before becoming Saratoga Post Office in 1865.
Rocchi raised her right hand to take the official Oath...
Sempervirens Fund buys Castle Rock Hollow; Merit Scholarship semifinalists revealed; LGHS senior wins film contest (local scene)
Sempervirens Fund recently announced its purchase of Castle Rock Hollow to preserve the 51-acre property, which shares a boundary with Sempervirens Fund’s former Castle Rock West property that was recently added to Castle Rock State Park in Los Gatos.
The Castle Rock Hollow property, acquired...
Aardvark in the Park; career opportunities for people with disabilities; court celebrates student art (local scene)
Music in the Park lineup announced
Music in the Park returns for the 2023 season.
Since 1988, Music in the Park has been a free public summer concert series held on Sunday afternoons, from 5-7pm on the Los Gatos Civic Center Lawn, 110 E. Main St.
This...
Los Gatos High admin Kristi Grasty leads school district to Golden Bell Award with cafeteria menu shift (local scene)
Los Gatos High School administrator presents at international conference
Los Gatos High School Assistant Principal Kristi Grasty presented her doctoral research at the 13th International Conference on Food Studies at the University of Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico in October.
A presenter and panelist, Grasty’s leadership in...
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...
Girl scouts retire flags; high school district gets 6-figure nutrition grant; College of Adaptive Arts hosting fundraiser (local scene)
School district awarded for serving healthy meals
The Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District was awarded $180,018 through a state and federal grant that recognizes the district’s Food Service department for the nutritional quality of the school meals, practices in the cafeteria, and student and...