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Santa Clara County's top health official urged residents Monday to get an updated Covid-19 booster vaccine if they are eligible to do so as the holiday season approaches. According to Health Officer and Public Health Director Dr. Sara Cody, just 11 percent of Santa Clara...

Sculptor Sawyer Rose uses art to depict the work inequalities that women face in her exhibit, “Carrying Stones,” on display at New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) through Jan. 23, 2022.  Upon installation in May, Rose premiered two new sculptures and two more were added in...

This week's Calendar features an orchestral opportunity, a chance to fight breast cancer and a potential jazzy encounter. Peninsula Symphony Orchestra Pianist Natasha Paremski, performs with the Peninsula Symphony in a program of works including Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Mendelssohn’s Overture for Winds, and Rachmaninoff’s...

The magical moment in the stone “cave” passageway at Testarossa Winery was emblematic of the exquisite sensory experience that was this year’s annual Chamber of Commerce dinner, held March 9, the last with Executive Director Catherine Somers at the helm. Fashionably-attired guests stood in the...

The ACLU of Northern California is stepping up its pressure campaign against the Town of Los Gatos, threatening legal action if it doesn’t reverse a rebuke of a Planning Commissioner who complained to state officials about a referendum drive that quashed residential densification plans. It’s...

The stage has been set for the next phase of residential development reticence in Los Gatos as two new housing projects have officially entered the arena: a blocky apartment complex and a traditional suburban cul-de-sac. The developers behind both say they qualify for fast-tracking under...

During the past few years, I’ve served as a member of the Community Health and Senior Services Commission (CHSSC) in Los Gatos. For most of that time, our commission, which is supposed to have six adult members and one youth member, has had one...

Planning commission to consider various home projects The Los Gatos Planning Commission will meet virtually on Dec. 8 at 7pm. The commission will consider: • A demolition and rebuild of a single-family residence at 16010 Winterbrook Road; • Construction of a second-story addition to an existing single-family residence...

At the 114 Royce St. newspaper office, we sometimes worked until midnight in the startup days. One warm night, I walked outside to the distinctive smell of freshly roasting coffee beans. A column of smoke rose over Main Street, three blocks away.  I followed it...

In Dec. 2022, Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District agreed to a $100,000+ deal with Nomad Ecology of Martinez, Calif., to study the population of the “critically imperiled Santa Cruz Kangaroo Rat,” which had just reappeared on the Santa Clara County side of the Santa...