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Dormant pruning last winter did more than concentrate resources for flowers and fruits. It did more than eliminate superfluous growth, which many pathogens overwinter in. It also directed or concentrated resources for stems and foliage. Such growth now grows faster than some types of...

The last Los Gatos High School varsity boys baseball game of the regular season was definitely a thrilling show. The team had an impressive start to the away game in Carmel on Saturday. They stormed out to an 8-0 lead through six innings. Their pitching was...

For the third time in the last four years, the Los Gatos High School softball team is reigning supreme as the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division champions.  The Wildcats punctuated the regular season with a 11-1, mercy-rule victory over Mountain View on...

Instead of simply gearing up for another one of their Memorial Day sales, this year, Los Gatos’ NC Boardshop decided to try something more creative. But Mike Allen, co-owner of the apparel and hard goods shop that serves the skateboarding, surf and scooter communities, said...

Los Gatos commissioners are sounding the alarm that a new code of conduct, if approved as-is, would stifle freedom of speech and could lead to public meeting law violations. While Town staff defended the pair of policies—one for Council members and one for commissioners—saying there...

Over the weekend, the 2024 California Journalism Awards were handed out in Los Angeles, with the Los Gatan winning second place for an impressive high school football freeze-frame. It's the newspaper's first-ever CNPA win. It was nominated last year in a design category. The photograph...

*Last updated at 2:05pm, May 16, 2025 The Highway 17 section between Idylwild Road and Redwood Estates known as Moody Curve (because it passes over Moody Gulch) was the site of an unexpected field trip stop this morning. According to authorities, a southbound bus carrying 32...

May 22 marks the 165th birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—the man who gave us Sherlock Holmes…and then tried to get rid of him. He was never particularly fond of his most famous creation. Holmes, he once said, was “a thinking machine without a heart,”...

Six years ago, Edwyn Mendoza was an eighth grader at Ida Jew Academy in east San Jose.  A lot has happened since then for the San Jose native. Now in his second professional season playing for Town FC—the San Jose Earthquakes’ second team club—the 19-year-old...

One of the best things about living within a democracy is that it is for the people and by the people. And that includes the freedom to assemble. On April 30, a meeting—called by Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Foundation president Jonathan Knowles—was held at Los...