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Local Scene: Los Gatos History Project, White Cane Days fundraiser
Object’s from town’s history on display
Los Gatos History Project: Uncovering Untold Stories will be on view in NUMU’s History Hall beginning Oct. 15, with a preview event on Oct. 14.
The Los Gatos History Project team, led by guest curator Allison Railo, have been developing...
Paws-to-Share receives $17,400 therapy dog contract; 4-H’er places second nationally; election workers needed (local scene)
Therapy dog coming to Los Gatos High School
The Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District Board of Trustees approved a contract on Sept. 26 with Paws-to-Share, an organization that will provide a therapy dog to the Los Gatos High School Wellness Center.
Fully funded through a...
Students honored for art (photos)
There were plenty of excellent entries in the Campbell Union High School District Art Show, which was held on May 31.
This included a women's rights-focused submission by Del Mar High School student Peyton Mohl as well as a creatively floral piece by Prospect High...
Trio inspires love of play through camps where dolls are invited
When 21-year-old Los Gatos twins Gabrielle and Madeline Pollock started a business, they were just 13. Their co-founder, best friend Kate Lally, was only 12.
The trio had been playing with dolls together since preschool, but as they got older, they saw younger kids—who grew...
A long lost love story
Valentine’s Day is the perfect occasion for a love story
But even though Los Gatos was the setting of a legendary romance that once captivated the nation, the story of Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Sara Bard Field has largely been forgotten by our community.
C.E.S....
HEART OF OUR TOWN: Developer behind post office projects keeping options open
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
—motto associated with the United States Postal Service
But developers might?
Our little charming town of Los Gatos has had a post office since 1864. But...
Upcoming events to cure your winter blues
The CineLux Theater at 43 N. Santa Cruz Ave. will host comedian Mark Lundholm Jan. 17, from 11am-1pm, for a live comedy fundraiser in support of a nonprofit created to boost mental health and preserve traditional practices of Indigenous people.
Admission is just $40. A...
Holly Lane puts the frame in focus at NUMU
A modern picture frame’s function is simply to provide a border for a painting or photograph—to be inconspicuous. In Holly Lane’s hands, however, frames play anything but second fiddle.
“Holly Lane—Not Enough Time to Love the World,” a new exhibit at NUMU (New Museum Los...
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 lost petroleum wells of Los Gatos
Have you ever wondered how the infamous U-shaped stretch of Highway 17 known as Big Moody Curve got its name? There isn’t much to say about early settler D. B. Moody, who owned the property. But what happened there is one of the most...
