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August 4, 2026

Soundbath Beginnings: On-the-fly, ephemeral sonic sculpting on a majestic mountaintop

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You relax with faux-fur blankets in the geodesic dome as the blue sky daubed with little cloud tufts exists somewhere out there beyond the towering trees. Here somewhere above Summit Road, the storms of life evaporate, as Liliya Goldie, 48, constructs a symphony of ambient...

Rescuing Rocket, the cat stuck up a tree for several days

Kevin Gutierrez, of Tlalli Arborist, tried for hours to rescue Rocket the cat on Monday.
On Tuesday morning, an AT&T worker attempted to rescue Rocket, the orange and white cat stuck up an 85-foot-pine in Los Gatos, with his bucket truck. The 3-year-old male cat had come down quite a bit from where it had been the prior evening, when...

Los Gatos High School boys lacrosse team wins PCAL Gabilan championship; CCS D1 playoffs next

A year after finishing in second place in the Pacific Coast Athletic League’s Gabilan Division, the Los Gatos High School boys lacrosse team ended the regular-season with an emphatic finish, dominating Palma 11-4 on May 7.  The Wildcats (13-6 overall, 8-0 league) earned the No....

LGLL having banner year; Baggerly Field no match for Parsa Schmidt and Barrett Laubach

Whether it’s drawing 1,500-plus people for their Opening Day Ceremonies or enrolling a record 557 kids for the 2026 season, Los Gatos Little League Baseball is thriving perhaps like never before.  Storylines abound each year and this season is no exception. The Mariners’ Parsa Schmidt...

Los Gatos High School Athletic Hall of Fame gala

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Since 2004, the Los Gatos High School Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Dinner has been held on the first Saturday of May. This event marks the 21st class to be enshrined. This year's event was held at La Rinconada Country Club, and I was...

Man reportedly “playing” with his machete at Pedro’s on N. Santa Cruz Ave and LG-Saratoga Rd. (Police Blotter, April 26-May 2)

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April 26 A subject reportedly walked in and took a rental bike at the Toll House Hotel on South Santa Cruz Avenue at 12:12am. A subject was reportedly taking plums from the caller’s tree, and when asked to stop, the subject told the caller he was...

‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ draws record MMM crowd

Devil Wears Prada 2 line
This week, the Los Gatos Thrives Foundation had its largest turnout in the history of its Monday Morning Movies fundraising series. The organization sold 245 tickets to the “The Devil Wears Prada 2” showing on Monday. “It’s thrilling to me, because it tells me that film...

Cool cats of Los Gatos take note

Tony Lindsay
Soon the Jazz on the Plazz will begin its 2026 season.  This is where Los Gatans begin the summer of sound and, if you will, dance your a** off. Under the sheltering redwood trees, our town echoes with jazz—as has been the case for the past...

Grafting to grapple with a grape glut

Muns vineyard
What do you do when you are growing too much of something everyone used to want, and now, suddenly, consumers want something else? Santa Clara Valley once boasted 100k acres of prune plums, apricots, peaches and cherries, post WWII. By 1960, those orchards were...

Letters: Farley Road Neighbors respond to mosque permit approval article; upskirt investigation article criticized; Mother’s Day idea

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Clarifying Farley Road Neighbors’ views on mosque site We're writing to clarify several points regarding your recent article that said the Farley Road neighborhood argued for a church instead of housing in connection with the sale of the former Jehovah’s Witness property in Los Gatos. First,...

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