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November 28, 2024

Guest View: Town’s failure on housing has disastrous consequences

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Jak Van Nada considers the consequences of Los Gatos failing to get its Housing Element certified, despite sending in multiple drafts.

A Great Race for a great cause

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The 46th Annual Los Gatos Rotary Great Race was held Sunday at Vasona Lake County Park, with the start and finish line both located at the Gateway Pavilion. This year's chairman was Paul Christensen’s third year as chair of the event. “Actually, I took over for...

Assemblymember Gail Pellerin named head of elections committee

Assemblymember Gail Pellerin this week was appointed Chair of the Assembly Elections Committee by Speaker Robert Rivas. Pellerin, who represents the 28th Assembly District which includes Los Gatos, served as the chief elections official in Santa Cruz County from 1993 until her retirement in 2020....

3rd Annual Jolly10k Fun Run set for July 20

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July 24 will mark three years since Leslie Gentry’s 22-year-old son, Jolly Jones, died while detoxing from fentanyl. Gentry was living in San Jose and working in Los Gatos at the time, so she decided to hold an awareness hike here in town, exactly a...

Closing the gaps in mental health care

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I learned from a panel discussion held on Dec. 14 at the Los Gatos Town Hall, that mental health care is riddled with gaps, leaving many individuals struggling to access the services they need.  From a shortage of qualified providers, to inadequate insurance coverage, to...

Swenson reduces unit count by 262 for formal ‘Residence at Newtown’ application

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In what it called a "monumental" change, Swenson Builders lopped off more than 50 feet of height from a planned tower complex in Los Gatos and reduced the homes count by 262 units. It has now submitted a formal application to the Town of...

Elementary student Bradley Hall raises $500 for library in contest with ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ author

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Mayor Mary Badame and Los Gatos Library Director Ryan Baker joined other local officials to thank fifth-grade Blossom Hill Elementary student Bradley Hall for raising hundreds of dollars for the library, Monday. He attended a traveling trivia game show, in Santa Cruz, called "The No Brainer...

West Valley College fashion show presents collections from talented emerging designers

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A steady beat pumps out over a glossy white runway. A curtain shields models wearing items from up-and-coming designers, in a show creative directed by early Alexander McQueen collaborator Simon Ungless. Was this New York Fashion Week? Paris? Or Milan? In fact, this was the...

Man charged with rape to be extradited from France

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A 31-year-old Saratoga man accused of raping a woman and later admitting it can be extradited to the United States, a French court has ruled. And the lawyer who helped publicize the case says she’s “thrilled” to see Ian Thomas Cleary, who is charged with...

How do you feel about self-driving cars?

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Editor—Following last week’s op-ed about the autonomous vehicle expansion down the peninsula towards Los Gatos, we figured it was high time to send reporter Dinah Cotton out to get a sense of what locals think about sharing their roads with robots… Just about everyone I...

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