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After the best season in program history, what can the Los Gatos High wrestling team possibly do for an encore in the 2023-2024 campaign? Keep on improving.  “We have to keep evolving and keep growing,” coach Greg Varela said. “We’ve got to start looking bigger than...

It’s 11pm, and Los Gatos High School junior Eric Jacobson is stuck on a particularly difficult calculus topic. Instead of doomscrolling reels—or giving up—he turns to a study partner who never sleeps: ChatGPT. “I love (AI), because it explains concepts concisely and efficiently,” Jacobson explained....

Best Bagels The Posh Bagel Silver Noah's NY Bagels Bronze Boichik Bagels  Best Bakery Icing on the Cake Silver Manresa Bread Bronze Fleur De Cocoa Best Bar or Pub Wine Cellar Restaurant Silver Carry Nation's Bronze Gardino's Ristorante Italiano Best Barbecue Los Gatos Meats & Smokehouse Silver The Bywater Bronze The Cats Best Bartender Kenny Bowes, Wine Cellar Restaurant Silver Zack Piellusch, Forbes Mill Steakhouse Bronze Jennifer Anzalone, Black Watch Best Beer Selection Out of...

Startups are constantly thinking of new ways to solve old problems, and recycling is an area ripe for reinvention. That’s the picture painted by Ridwell, a waste-diversion company based in Seattle, Washington. This supplementary recycling “B Corp” wants to give Silicon Valley consumers another method of keeping...

Chef David Kinch announced this morning that he’s leaving Los Gatos’ acclaimed Manresa restaurant and soliciting bids for the business and the real estate. Post-pandemic economic realities have put tremendous pressure on high-ticket restaurants, with rising food costs and staff shortages. He’ll wrap up his more...

The death of 46-year-old Jennifer Cobb—who was found with her 50-year-old husband in a Los Gatos home, Feb. 15—has been classified as a “homicide” by the Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner-Coroner. Her partner, Cornelius Bangma, died by suicide, the coroner determined. Both died...

On the morning of Nov. 9, employees of Xactly Corp., a Software-as-a-Service business based in San Jose, strode into Discovery Shop Los Gatos with purpose. The group of cloud-software company workers had arrived on East Main Street in Los Gatos for a unique but important...

Dave Cortese, who most recently stopped by Los Gatos Council during the farewell for former Town Manager Laurel Prevetti, today turned his attention to the plight of those who do the food-production heavy-lifting. In a release, Cortese (D-Silicon Valley) commended the Cal Occupational Safety and Health Administration...

Los Gatan contributor Faizi Samadani has been monitoring a growing hummingbird family in his backyard for the past several days. On April 8, he posted some photos on Next Door he'd taken on his Nikon digital camera, where you could see a mother and a...

The following Silicon Valley restaurants are participating in Bay Area Burger Week, which runs June 18-29. Download the Burger Week app for Apple and Android devices at wklys.co/burgers to check in, rate meals, post photos and win a burger, plus find additional participating restaurants...