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Cool season color returns seasonally
Cool season vegetables are the first clue. Now that they are seasonal, cool season color is also seasonal. Both comply with similar schedules. Their cool season centers around winter, including portions of spring and autumn. Some prefer to start early. Some prefer a later...
Council approves 155-unit Los Gatos Lodge housing development
Los Gatos Council has approved a 155-unit multi-family residential development for the site of the Los Gatos Lodge hotel tonight at their regularly-scheduled meeting.
After an official for San Ramon-based SummerHill Homes, LLC boasted it had received unanimous support for the project at Planning Commission,...
Court announces new leadership
On Jan. 1, the Julie A. Emede official became Presiding Judge, while the Eric S. Geffon was named an assistant presiding judge, with the Santa Clara County Superior Court.
Emede, who previously served as an assistant presiding judge, succeeds Beth McGowen, whose term as presiding...
Jen Beattie: a champion on and off the pitch
Over the course of her 17-year professional soccer playing career, Jen Beattie has been on her fair share of championship-winning teams.
While the 33-year-old Bay FC defender is still going strong on the pitch, she’s championing another cause: breast cancer awareness.
Beattie, who was 29 when...
Cases against woman accused of throwing parties for teens proceed
The Los Gatos woman who is accused of holding alcohol-fueled parties for teens remained in jail over the holidays, as a variety of cases against her go unresolved.
And in recent filings in the divorce case brought by her husband, Robert Amaral, the former chief...
What’s a ‘Dragon’ doing in Los Gatos? Raising funds for families in crisis, of course!
On that one cold rainy day last week, I dropped by the Happy Dragon Thrift Store, the “Dragon” at 245 W. Main St. I had just read online that a person in Virginia had purchased a $3.99 vase at a thrift store that turned...
Downtown dining scene evolving with European flair
The once-popular Le Boulanger has been sitting empty at the corner of Main Street and Montebello Way for nearly three years, but sometime this summer the black window coverings will come down and a new restaurant, the Parkside, will open for business.
Right next door,...
Dinah’s Log: Roof problem at Safeway, Pink Friday, ‘Wicked’ for MMMM
Wow, did we ever get a downpour last week! Part of the ceiling at the Safeway fell in and they were briefly closed. Seems like it might be a wet winter. Git out those galoshes, an atmospheric river is incoming. Now, where did I...
Fiber internet switched-on for rural residents
On Friday, at a midday ceremony in the Summit Store’s parking lot, in the heart of the Santa Cruz Mountains, community members joined with telecom and government officials to celebrate the completion of the first phase of Surfnet Communications’ rural internet expansion.
Mark Morgenthaler, Surfnet’s...
The Lexington House is getting a new owner, but is keeping its name + vibe
The Lexington House is changing hands.
Co-founder Stephen Shelton told the Los Gatan he’s already in escrow, and is ecstatic that the new owner plans to retain the name, the menu and its star chef, Ethan Carreon.
“It’s a great scenario,” Shelton said.
Marco Spagnuolo, who is...
