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WHAT IS CERT? The Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) is an all-volunteer, community-based emergency preparedness organization, supported by and operating within the command structure of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department. MISSION STATEMENT The primary mission of LGMS CERT is to provide support and...

“February is the perfect time to plant the seeds of gratitude and watch them bloom throughout the year.” —Sarah Ban Breathnach February is also the month of love, Presidents Day, Black History Month and the start of Ramadan. Girl Scout cookie sales have started. I don’t...

Last year for Valentine’s Day, public speaking coach Lynn Kirkham posted-up outside of Orchard Valley Coffee in Campbell to hand out so-called “love notes”—paper hearts containing kind words for strangers. A couple weeks ago, the Saratoga resident repeated the positivity operation at Roxa Hammock Cafe...

Not only did the annual Los Gatos Rotary Crabfest feature delicious food, it also raised a record amount of funds to be administered through the LG Rotary Charities Foundation. First you get those wonderful high school students smiling and serving, and you have Lissa Kreisler...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...