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December 12, 2025

Westmont High grad makes Dean’s List at Baldwin Wallace University

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Molaei named to Baldwin Wallace University Dean's List Jasmyn Molaei of Los Gatos, a Westmont High School graduate majoring in acting (BFA), has been named to the Dean's List for the spring 2022 semester at Baldwin Wallace University, according to Provost Stephen D. Stahl.  The Dean's...

Advocates say California’s jail population will rise

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According to Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes, California doesn’t have a crisis in its jails, where record numbers of people have died even as the state’s jail population shrank.  “Saying people died in jails is a little bit of a misnomer,” said Barnes, who is...

Mrs. Claus goes shopping for the men in her life

Josiah
It wasn’t all that hard to find fancy gift options for male recipients, when I set out about town on this latest quest of mine. And not all products and services are created equal. Of course, the best gifts are the ones that come...

Santa Clara County sheriff affirms protest rights in the face of immigration crackdown

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With the recent burning of Waymo self-driving vehicles and imposition of a curfew in LA during anti-Homeland Security enforcement protests, the County's top law enforcement officer today sent out a press release affirming the right of Americans to protest peacefully. “As Sheriff of Santa...

Town agrees to share license plate data with law enforcement agencies

Detective describes using Flock cameras to investigate a commercial break-in
In the 30 days leading up to Nov. 9, 2022, in order to find 23 vehicles that might have been involved in a crime, the Flock Safety Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) system scanned 458,411 plates, the Electronic Frontier Foundation found. Since then, Los Gatos’...

In a game for the ages, Los Gatos falls short in CCS Division I playoffs

One moment, the Los Gatos High football team was seemingly on its way to victory. The next, faces of disbelief littered the sideline.  It’s no wonder Wildcats coach Mark Krail called the 34-27 loss to Bellarmine in a Central Coast Section Division I playoff opener...

Chance meeting in Los Gatos led to new brew ‘The Wave’

The Wave beer launch
It was a match made in heaven. The Promised Land Brewery in Gilroy developed a new craft beer called “The Wave,” after “Krazy” George Henderson, the man who invented the act that has become popular in stadiums across the country. Owner and brewer Brian Schwab said...

Students lead charge against global water crisis

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Imagine embarking on a five-hour journey every morning, not to an exotic destination, but to your kitchen sink. Picture a 25-pound container, not filled with books for school, but with water that's scarcely clean, strapped to your back. This is not a challenge from...

School district asking voters to hike parcel tax

The Los Gatos Union School District’s parcel tax expires next June, so voters are being asked to renew—and increase—the existing parcel tax. There will be two vote centers open in Los Gatos for the Nov. 2 election, with vote-by-mail ballots hitting mailboxes in early October.   The...

Officials begin mailing ballots for June election

santa clara county ballot drop box
Election officials in Santa Clara County on May 9 began mailing ballots for the June 7 primary to the county’s one million registered voters, who will cast 2022's first ballots in local and state races and on some ballot measures. The vote-by-mail ballots can be...

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