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Green is the most common floral color. It only seems to be rare amongst flowers because almost all green bloom relies on wind for pollination. Thus, neither color nor fragrance is useful to get the attention of pollinators. Actually, green flowers do not get...

Hughes takes first place in national gymnastics competition Local resident Daniel Hughes, a sophomore at Leigh High School, took first place on the Rings and fifth place on the Highbar in the Senior C Division at the 2023 Western National Championships in Galveston, Texas April...

Wander amongst an array of “tricked out” cars and enjoy a cultural voyage on Sunday, Oct. 5, from 1-5pm, as a fleet of more than 50 classic lowriders will be parked on Montalvo Arts Center’s Great Lawn in front of the Villa. In addition...

Camposano earns Lehigh University Dean's List honors Max Camposano from Los Gatos achieved Dean's List status at Lehigh University in the Fall 2021 semester. Dean’s List is awarded to students who earned a scholastic average of 3.6 or better while carrying at least 12 hours of...

Los Gatos High School senior Mia Bradbury was selected as the Graphic Design WeTip Poster Design winner, a competition held to promote the district’s anonymous and confidential reporting service, WeTip.  Bradbury unveiled her winning posters at the March 28 board meeting, where she received a...

Over three decades, Los Gatos’ own Thanksgiving Day amateur football tournament has established quite the legendary reputation. And on Nov. 24, the National Turkey Bowl League will celebrate their 31st year. “We started in Los Gatos with seven guys, and it just grew,” said Matt Ober,...

Another Outdoor Festival? At the urging of our fearless editor I drove downtown to the Civic Center Lawn this past Saturday—always a daunting task with the beach weather and an unreliable Highway 17. An article was needed to cover the 52nd Fiesta de Arts. Oh, correction...

Regardless of how appealing many of them are in home gardens and landscapes, vines are flagrantly exploitative. They rely on shrubbery, trees or anything they can climb on for support. As they reach the tops of their supports, they extend their foliar canopies above....

Silicon Valley has played host to many tectonic cultural forces over the decades—from the introduction of the personal computer to the way search engines and social media companies altered how humans navigate through the world.  In a way, these technological advances allowed old and young...

Beyond Text will welcome New York Times bestselling author Alka Joshi for a special book talk and signing, this Saturday at 11am. Joshi, a Monterey resident and Stanford graduate, switched careers and published her debut novel, The Henna Artist, in her 50s—proving that it's never...