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Cool season vegetables for autumn
Warm season vegetables will be productive until autumn. Several will produce until frost. Those that grew slowly during mild weather through last spring are performing well now. Summer does not end until later in September, while summery weather may not end until a bit...
NCL Saratoga-Los Gatos Chapter creates cool playhouses
The 2026 class of the Saratoga-Los Gatos Chapter of National Charity League (NCL) recently partnered with Habitat for Humanity East Bay/Silicon Valley to raise funds and construct custom-designed playhouses to donate to deserving local families. The project was part of NCL’s ongoing commitment to...
Debris fills gutters during autumn
Autumn foliar color certainly is pretty while it lasts. Although less prominent locally than it is where cooler weather begins earlier, it is an asset to many home gardens. It generally appears a bit later within mild climates here, but might also remain suspended...
Students picked for ‘ArtNow’ exhibit
The Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District announced last week three Los Gatos High School students and six Saratoga High School students have been accepted to an annual juried Santa Clara County high school art exhibition. The educational program, titled “ArtNow,” is presented by...
Residents celebrate Easter with egg hunting, church services + train rides
This weekend was brimming with Easter services, family gatherings, brunches and, of course, search parties for ovular objects.
Mother Nature cooperated with sunshine inviting people outdoors to enjoy the early festive date, which is determined by moon phase.
On a clear Saturday morning at a somewhat...
Tales of the Town: A Newspaper is Born Again
So there we stood… on the corner of N. Santa Cruz Ave. and Main Street two weeks ago, ready to start a weekly newspaper in Los Gatos. Again. Randy Frey was there, as was Roger Sanford, who always manages to show up at the...
Live Oak ribbon cutting planned for June
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Live Oak Adult Day Services ribbon cutting
On June 1, the reopening reception of the Live Oak Adult Day Services will be held from 4-6pm, with a ribbon cutting ceremony by Mayor Maria Ristow at 5pm. The reception, with light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments, will...
Witches, skeletons and goblins flock to Los Gatos streets
When I was in high school, Tait Avenue in downtown Los Gatos's Almond Grove Historic District was a guaranteed stop, before me and my friends did our normal rounds of mischievous Halloween activities. We tried to pull off trick-or-treating for as long as we could until...
The Los Gatos ‘Ming Quong’ campus (Discover LOST Gatos)
It was a chilly morning in January, 1953 when 11-year-old Elena Lim arrived in Los Gatos. Her widowed father decided that he was unable to care for her so he surrendered her to the missionaries at Ming Quong.
Elena was unkempt, malnourished and had been...
Article inspires generational transfer of musical instrument
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...


















