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December 24, 2025

Caltrans fixes ‘Campell’ typo

Caltrans Ron Winnick
If you turned northbound on Highway 17 from Lark Avenue earlier this month, you were directed toward a fictional city. As you prepared to merge with the traffic heading away from Santa Cruz, the Highway Gothic sans-serif on a green background proclaimed that “Campell”...

Wine industry grapples with the US-Canada tariff battle

misty vines
As tariffs against goods from Canada, Mexico and China were announced Sunday and Republicans hit national political television shows to slam our neighbor to the north, local winemakers braced for impact. But John Clerides, the owner of Marquis Wine Cellars—a Vancouver importer of Californian wines...

Los Gatos designer’s shoes hit Golden Globes red carpet in Beverly Hills

Flor de Maria and shoes
It had been a year since Janelle James got in hot water for interrupting a co-star during last year’s Golden Globes, and she wanted to make sure her look was on-point for this year’s edition. And thanks to the insights of one of her stylists,...

Boas shares her journey to becoming Bentley and Rolls-Royce brand manager at Luxury Cars Los Gatos

adriana boas with car
Adriana Boas interviewed for a position to represent luxury cars in 2015 not knowing much about cars. Months earlier, in Aptos at the shoe and purse shop where she was working, a regular customer presented her with her business card and asked her a...

BLAZING BATTERIES: Recycler fined $25k for Campbell garbage truck fires

A San Jose recycling company has been ordered by a Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge to pay $25,000 in civil penalties for causing dangerous fires to start in the back of garbage trucks in Campbell.   The company, iDiskk, LLC, its principal Yue Zou,...

A solemn morning of remembrance in Los Gatos

9/11 singer
“We will never forget.” Do you remember, back 23 years ago (Sept. 11, 2001), when the planes hit American assets? Maj. Gen. Kent Hillhouse, U.S. Army (Ret.), sure does. He shared his recollections at the Flame of Liberty Memorial in Los Gatos during the morning service, on...

Town begins 2024 rework of Housing Element

Melanie Hanssen
Los Gatos continues to plod along in the revision of its Housing Element, holding hours of community meetings to workshop the critical housing document that has failed State scrutiny five times. Unlike the Scotts Valley Draft Housing Element which was rubber-stamped by its Planning Commission...

New Grand Jury to be sworn-in Dec. 15

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The Santa Clara County Superior Court will discharge the 2022 Civil Grand Jury and impanel 19 new Civil Grand Jury members on Dec. 15, Presiding Judge Theodore C. Zayner said today. The Civil Grand Jury, an arm of the Santa Clara County Superior Court, investigates...

Local high school string quartet to join the pros

student musicians by the fire
When the touring show “Beatles vs. Stones – A Musical Showdown” returns to the Campbell Heritage Theatre on Nov. 17, Prospect (Saratoga) High School String Quartet will join the professional musicians on stage to lend some local talent to this homage to the British...

Entrepreneur behind metal water bottle finds artistic inspiration in natural world

Robert seals and woman play music
The inventor and artist Robert Seals has spent the majority of his almost-80 years on Earth transforming junk into desirable objects. His invention (and company) Klean Kanteen became famous for its metallic water bottle. But his finely crafted recycled-metal sculptures are almost invisible. You have...

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