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Invasive Beauty
While Dinah Cotton was out on assignment reporting on the Fourth of July festivities in Los Gatos, she also managed to snap what turned out to be our cover shot this week.
The subject in question? A vibrant mimosa tree.
The mimosa tree was brought to...
Cuttings become copies of originals
Seed is the most familiar source of much of the vegetation that inhabits home gardens. It is the origin of almost all vegetables and most annual flowers. Some seed grows directly into its gardens. Some grows in nurseries to become saleable young plants. Seed...
Thursday Promenades kick off with bands, jugglers (Photo Gallery)
Barbara Hinman, 82, just moved to Los Gatos to live with her daughter Karen Shields.
Along with hundreds of others, they took to the blocked-off North Santa Cruz Avenue last night to soak up the first in a series of Thursday Promenades.
“The music down there...
Lights! Camera! Community!
Attention, movie buffs, social butterflies and champions of connection! Clear your calendars for May 6, beginning at 10 am, because the Los Gatos Foundation for Older Adults to Thrive is throwing a blockbuster event at the historic Cinelux Los Gatos Theatre.
The Los Gatos Foundation...
Dinah’s Event Log: Rains welcome February
Feels like our rainy season is trying to start late and our vegetation is looking rather relieved. I know that I am. Our evergreens glisten in the welcome rain—let’s put that false spring on hold for a bit.
The breezes that drift through Los Gatos...
DISCOVER LOST GATOS: The historic Rankin Block
The long-awaited arrival of the Parkside restaurant on the downtown dining scene is the perfect time for a story about the landmark building they’ll be calling home.
The Rankin Block was built in 1902 as income property by Clara and William Rankin who arrived in...
New York Times bestselling author Bonnie Garmus to appear at Los Gatos Library (calendar)
From a "Chemistry" writer, to a dazzling holiday display to an art exhibit, there's plenty on tap in this week's calendar...
Online author talk
The Los Gatos Library will host an online author talk with Bonnie Garmus on Nov. 10 at 11am. Garmus will discuss her...
Bareroot season begins in January
Christmas trees and associated items are no imposition for nurseries. They are seasonal while not much else is appealing to a retail market. They occupy retail area that summer and autumn commodities relinquished earlier. Then, they relinquish their same space as bareroot stock becomes...
Students highlight dangers of fentanyl via art contest (VIDEO)
Santa Clara County has been facing a tragic increase in fatal fentanyl overdoses over the past few years...
Too often, youth who buy pain medications off the streets end up with toxic pills that actually has fentanyl mixed in. The synthetic opioid, is like heroin...
Local Kiwanian helps deliver 5,000 lbs of aid to Ukraine
On a cold morning in April, a cargo van overflowing with about 2,500 pounds of humanitarian aid crossed the Polish border into Ukraine.
The two-person team operating the van consisted of a “navigator” and a driver.
Ian Russell, a formerly homeless UK man who has set...


















