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Jason Shiuan, the music director at Saratoga High School, is this year’s recipient of the California Music Educators Association’s Byron Hoyt/Don Schmeer Band Educator of the Year award. Congratulations! After several emails and calendar checks, I caught up with Shiuan on the SHS campus. I...

The Santa Clara County Board of Education’s (SCCBOE) search for the next Santa Clara County Office of Education’s (SCCOE) next superintendent of schools is moving into an active recruitment phase after the Board of Education adopted a timeline and job description for the position...

Over the weekend, during the PGA AT&T Pro-Am in Pebble Beach, the Los Gatos Kiwanis ran the bar concession at the 9th hole at Spyglass. This was to raise money for local leadership clubs. That includes groups at Van Meter Elementary, Blue Hills Elementary, Daves Avenue...

In the first couple months of each year, Los Gatans watch as tall young men march past the library in athletic attire, towards Cal Strength. That’s because the facility, owned by David Spitz, has been a training ground for college football players on the...

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...

At 19 years old, Saratoga resident Niko Tsakiris is already entering his fourth season as a San Jose Earthquakes midfielder.  “It’s been amazing,” he said. “You learn a lot entering the locker room at 16. You grow up pretty fast, but it’s been fun.” Tsakiris says...

Updated: Thursday, Feb. 6 at 11:14am Just after 7am Monday, the California Highway Patrol posted on Twitter about a traffic operation on Highway 17, north of Alma Bridge Road. "A truck hauling trash caught fire," a spokesperson for the agency's San Jose station wrote. "Currently, there...

The Los Gatos lobbying firm that proudly touts its “environmental, social, and governance” credentials on its website—that’s Canyon Snow, which recently announced it was adding a former San Jose City Council member to its roster—says it’s not worried about the scorched-earth anti-woke policies President...

By now, you’ve likely seen or heard the saying, “You can’t please everyone: you are not pizza.”  Fortunately, decent pizza is not hard to find in our town.  Whether you want a basic slice of mushroom or cheese pizza from Pizza My Heart, or you want...

Community Alliance: Appointment process was politically driven Leadership requires vision, competence, and integrity—qualities seemingly lacking in former mayor Maria Ristow and Vice Mayor Rob Moore. Their actions during the Planning Commission appointment process show a troubling pattern of prioritizing politics over the community’s needs. The Planning...