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October 30, 2025

Best of Los Gatos 2025: Families & Pets

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Best Animal Hospital Los Gatos Dog & Cat Hospital Silver Whole Pet Vet Hospital & Wellness Center Bronze Adobe Animal Hospital South Bay Best Dog Friendly Restaurant Willow Street Wood-Fired Pizza Silver Telefèric Barcelona Bronze Enoteca La Storia Best Elementary School Blossom Hill Elementary School Daves Avenue Elementary School Bronze Yavneh Day School Best Family Restaurant Willow Street Wood-Fired Pizza Silver Oren's Hummus Bronze Italian Brothers...

Best of Los Gatos 2025: Arts & Entertainment

Best of Los Gatos Arts and Entertainment
Best Charity Event Los Gatos Art & Wine Festival Silver Los Gatos Rotary Crabfest & Auction Bronze Powering Hope, Jewish Silicon Valley Best Event Los Gatos Children’s Christmas/Holidays Parade Silver Los Gatos Art & Wine Festival Bronze Music in the Park (Los Gatos) Best Festival Los Gatos Art & Wine Festival Silver OktoberFest Los Gatos Bronze The Makers Market Local Artist...

In the wild, wild West of collegiate sports, relaxation of transfer rules, social media are historic gamechangers

The college sports landscape has changed so much in the last several years, it’s hard to keep track of all the rule-swiching and court decisions. These have sent ripples throughout the NCAA.  In last week’s Los Gatan, Camryn Whitfield detailed the Division I five-year regulation,...

AP students at LGSUHSD beat national average in standardized tests (board meeting update)

Metro Ed
At the Oct. 9 Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District board meeting, Associate Superintendent Deepa Mukherjee presented an overview of the district’s Advanced Placement (AP) program, showing that overall, students tended to outpace learners from around the country in last Spring’s AP exams. The District...

Local athletes race against time thanks to new eligibility restrictions 

Blake Chase
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of college eligibility, especially due to the NCAA Division I five-year rule. It is one of the biggest obstacles student-athletes face, and, for some, more challenging than the sport they play itself.  However, change is unfolding...

Man attacked at VTA station has died

VTA's Gish Light Rail Station
Authorities have shared a tragic update to a story we brought you in this week's newspaper. The man who was brutally attacked at a Valley Transportation Authority light rail station in late September has died from his injuries. And because of this, the attempted murder case against Brandon...

Los Gatos High School cross country teams on the run

After a five-year stretch which resulted in multiple league championships and berths in the CIF State Meet, the Los Gatos High School boys and girls cross country teams are in a rebuilding phase this season.  Both squads were hit hard by graduation, especially on the...

Opinion: Vote No on Measure A—it’s time to tighten our belt

Rishi Kumar
This November, Santa Clara County voters will decide on Measure A—a countywide 5/8 sales tax hike beginning April 2026. It would raise the base rate from 9.125%, with even higher rates in San José, Milpitas and Campbell. A regressive sales tax hits struggling families hardest...

POLICE BLOTTER (Sept. 28 – Oct. 4)

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Sunday, Sept. 28 An approximately five-minute-long honking began on Ridgecrest Avenue at 11:56am. A Porsche Cayenne and an Acura MDX were involved.  The reporting party was riding his bike before 8pm, when he said he was hit by a car. The driver and the reporting party...

Opinion: Here’s why we need Measure A

San Jose hospital
They say you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. We hope that won’t be the case for the West Valley of Santa Clara County, where many of us who rely on private insurance don’t realize how much the County’s hospital system does...

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