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The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors recently approved a one-time grant for the Town of Los Gatos to help upgrade senior-serving facilities. The funds, part of the Fiscal Year 2022-23 budget, will be used for ADA-related improvements to the Los Gatos Adult Recreation...

What do you do when a 7.2 magnitude quake tears through the heart of your community? That’s what more than 50 Los Gatos locals had to grapple with on Saturday, as authorities and volunteers gathered for a natural disaster drill. The Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police...

Recreational activities offered during break LGS Recreation is offering various programs for children during the school break from Feb. 21-25. Programs include robotics, dance, art, gymnastics, sports, LEGO building and more. For information, visit bit.ly/3sClRAO. National mortgage lender opens Campbell branch Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation, a national direct mortgage...

Last Wednesday evening, Clairdee expressed cool jazz with her vibrant and caring voice to the attendees at Jazz on the Plazz. Sharing her adherence to traditional jazz, her emotionally nuanced, velvety voice drew us in to a place where we could “love one another” and...

Earthdance, a global celebration of peace and community, returns to the Bay Area with a weekend of music, movement and connection at Lupin Lodge, in Los Gatos. Earthdance events are organized simultaneously throughout the world, bringing people together in a single moment of focused...

Halloween seems to be an appropriate time to bury early spring bulbs in shallow graves. The season begins about now, and continues until about the end of the year. Installation of new bulbs might initially be ungratifying. There is nothing to show after their...

Maya Angelou likely enjoyed gardening. She said, “In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” That is how the healthiest of ecosystems, including home gardens, function. Vegetable gardens are generally diverse. However, each group of a particular vegetable is rather homogenous. Crop rotation...

Bill and Doris Cooper of Cooper-Garrod Estate Vineyards in Saratoga pour wine for attendees of the Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce’s Spring Wine Walk on April 22. The sold-out event featured more than 32 wineries stationed at various businesses throughout downtown. Credit: Arnold Breit

CALENDAR - For more events, visit the complete calendar at losgatan.com/events-calendar. ‘Into the Woods’ Westmont High School will present its spring musical, “Into the Woods,” March 17-18 and 23-25 at 4805 Westmont Ave. in Campbell. The musical follows Cinderella, who wishes to attend the King's Festival; Little...

This year's Memorial Day weekend brought heavy beach traffic, moments of remembrance for fallen soldiers, and a new art fair at a skate shop on Los Gatos Boulevard. On Monday, local youth assisted with a somber service that honored the sacrifice veterans made for the...