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Young accordion student wins scholarship, plays first-ever performance (video)
The weekend before his 11th birthday, Los Gatos resident Colin Kennedy was honored with a $500 scholarship at the Cotati Accordion Festival.
He also got to perform at the North Bay event Sunday.
“It was pretty nerve wracking,” he said, explaining what it felt like to...
Youth horror film fest raises money for Children’s Hospital
Local youth are reaching out to aspiring movie-makers across town as they launch the second-annual Scares for Cares Movie Event to raise money for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
The idea is to help those going through a hard time by scaring people’s pants off...
Senior nutrition center reopens for in-person lunches and activities
Although the Live Oak Senior Nutrition & Service Center doors were closed during the pandemic, employees and volunteers were busier than ever, with 90 or so lunches picked up or delivered to seniors every weekday.
The nutrition center at 111 Church St. re-opened Aug. 5....
Sip wine downtown; students named to President’s List; local shines out in Charleston
Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce’s Wine Walk returns to downtown on Oct. 2 from 1-4pm.
Attendees can sip tastings from more than two dozen local wineries, as well as try food samples from local establishments.
Must be 21 or older to participate.
Admission is $50 per person....
Exhibit depicts work inequality for women
Sculptor Sawyer Rose uses art to depict the work inequalities that women face in her exhibit, “Carrying Stones,” on display at New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) through Jan. 23, 2022.
Upon installation in May, Rose premiered two new sculptures and two more were added in...
Festival pairs opportunity with wine
After all the craft sales, beer sipping and classic rock dancing, organizers of the Fiesta de Artes festival announced that they had successfully funded another year of Turnaround Scholarships.
And while sponsorships dipped from previous years, quick action by volunteers resulted in a big increase...
Local food delivery service continues expanding
Locale, a food delivery company with a focus on local restaurants and farms, continues its expansion throughout the Bay Area only a little more than a year since its inception.
Locale is the brainchild of Los Gatos natives and recent college graduates Chris Clark and...
On land and sea
On a recent afternoon, a bright red convertible sports car, with two people aboard, cruised along Green Valley Road and swung into Pinto Lake City Park in Watsonville. Under mild, sunny conditions, they drove the length of the parking lot past a handful of...
Tales of the Town: A Newspaper is Born Again
So there we stood… on the corner of N. Santa Cruz Ave. and Main Street two weeks ago, ready to start a weekly newspaper in Los Gatos. Again. Randy Frey was there, as was Roger Sanford, who always manages to show up at the...
89-year-old local businessman prepares for his 4th trip to the Antarctic
When long-time downtown Los Gatos businessman Ed Stahl is asked if he’ll ever retire, he shakes his head no and says, “I’m having too much fun.”
Stahl owns Travel Advisors of Los Gatos, which opened at 56 N. Santa Cruz Ave. in 1961.
If he’s not...