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April 28, 2025
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Dinah’s Event Log: February’s hint of spring

Lions Club volunteers
We have a very active service club scene that I can hardly keep up with. We also have a Community Emergency Response Team, known as “CERT,” and Disaster Aid Response Team, or “DART.” We will be featuring these organizations in upcoming issues. OUT & ABOUT MEANT FOR EACH...

Brubeck Brothers Quartet performed Friday and educated the next morning

group of musicians
During Friday night’s Brubeck Brothers Quartet performance at the Montalvo Arts Center’s intimate Carriage House theater, the quartet played original as well as historical jazz. There was precise drumming by Dan Brubeck. His brother Chris, on bass and trombone, kept the rhythm going talking...

Dinah’s Event Log: Rains welcome February

mike's bikes
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...

All that jazz, and much more at Saratoga High

Jason Shiuan and the band
Jason Shiuan, the music director at Saratoga High School, is this year’s recipient of the California Music Educators Association’s Byron Hoyt/Don Schmeer Band Educator of the Year award. Congratulations! After several emails and calendar checks, I caught up with Shiuan on the SHS campus. I...

Los Gatos Kiwanis hold AT&T Pro-Am golf fundraiser (photos)

At Spyglass
Over the weekend, during the PGA AT&T Pro-Am in Pebble Beach, the Los Gatos Kiwanis ran the bar concession at the 9th hole at Spyglass. This was to raise money for local leadership clubs. That includes groups at Van Meter Elementary, Blue Hills Elementary, Daves Avenue...

Discover LOST Gatos: Remembering the railroad era pt. 2

railroad line through the mountains
Part 1 of this series told the story of aspiring railroad barons James “Slippery Jim” Fair and Alfred “Hog” Davis, who founded the South Pacific Coast Railroad (SPCRR) in 1876 to create an extensive rail network throughout the Bay Area and beyond. After the...

Dinah’s Pizza Scene: PIZZA, PIZZA, PIZZA, ANYTIME IS PIZZA TIME!

Oak & Rye oven
Did you know that Americans consume an average of 23 pounds of pizza per person each year? Pizza can be eaten with a fork or with hands. Pizza can be eaten with salad, to aid in the digestion of all of that wonderful gooey cheese....

Standing Tall: The town has seen many phases

Model of the town in the past
*The following article first appeared in print as part of this feature on housing development in Los Gatos. From sporting the name of “Forbes Mill,” to earning the distinction of top destination for retirees in California a few years ago, to serving as a hotbed...

Dinah’s Event Log: Winter fire season

overcast Los Gatos
“All the leaves are brown / and the sky is gray. / I’ve been for a walk / on a winter’s day. / I’d be safe and warm / if I was in LA.” —the Mamas and the Papas For now, we are safe (enough) right...

The Brubeck Brothers Quartet to teach master-class

workshop photo
Imagine being a middle or high school-aged music student who gets to play alongside jazz greats. That will be more than a dream for several local students, thanks to an upcoming workshop organized by Los Gatos Music & Arts (LGM&A), which has produced Jazz on...

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