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September 3, 2025

LG Lions deliver scholarships totaling $11,000

Lions Club scholarships
The Los Gatos Lions Club awarded a total of 10 scholarships totaling $11,000 to graduating Los Gatos High School seniors at their “Awards Night” on the school campus, May 19.  The club hosted the recipients at their regular luncheon meeting on Wednesday, May 21. The most...

Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad Steam Engine #2 turns 120 years old

Dinah Cotton
Engine #2 was hot and smoky, as the engineer opened the cast iron door carefully. To kick-off this, its 120th birthday celebration—held Sunday at Oak Meadow Park—a small bunt cake was placed directly into its firebox. “Woo-hoo!” belched its steam whistle in satisfaction. On board for the...

Embracing the beauty that’s all around us for a reset

Los Gatos Creek
A vacation sounds almost as good as fried chicken, ice cream or watermelon. With school wrapping up and summer officially just a few weeks away, are you going anywhere? If you have small children or do not want the hassle of heading out on a...

Memorial Day Weekend (photos)

Girl Scouts
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...

Ted Sahl photography exhibit

gay rights movement photo exhibit
Little is known about the life of late local photographer Ted Sahl. He was born in 1927 and grew up outside of Boston. He served in the Navy in 1947 and later moved to the Bay Area, where he began taking pictures in the...

Weekend events provide pleasant experiences for people—and animals—of all ages

cat and girl
Los Gatos is famous for being a great place to work and send your kids to school. But did you know it’s also a fantastic place to grow old in? Los Gatos has received its official designation as an “age-friendly” community? There’s a template put out by...

Aphids savor fresh spring growth

hibiscus (red)
Dormant pruning last winter did more than concentrate resources for flowers and fruits. It did more than eliminate superfluous growth, which many pathogens overwinter in. It also directed or concentrated resources for stems and foliage. Such growth now grows faster than some types of...

NC Boardshop dips its toes into the art world

fish and bird art - blue
Instead of simply gearing up for another one of their Memorial Day sales, this year, Los Gatos’ NC Boardshop decided to try something more creative. But Mike Allen, co-owner of the apparel and hard goods shop that serves the skateboarding, surf and scooter communities, said...

The man who killed Sherlock Holmes and believed in fairies

Sherlock Holmes Museum
May 22 marks the 165th birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—the man who gave us Sherlock Holmes…and then tried to get rid of him. He was never particularly fond of his most famous creation. Holmes, he once said, was “a thinking machine without a heart,”...

The Los Gatos ‘Ming Quong’ campus (Discover LOST Gatos)

Ming Quong gate
It was a chilly morning in January, 1953 when 11-year-old Elena Lim arrived in Los Gatos. Her widowed father decided that he was unable to care for her so he surrendered her to the missionaries at Ming Quong. Elena was unkempt, malnourished and had been...

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