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Los Gatos Planning Commission slams proposal for town’s tallest building
Los Gatos Planning Commissioners voted not to support a developer’s proposal to rebuild the Los Gatos Meadows seniors complex at 110 Wood Road as exclusive residences for the most affluent.
At their regularly-scheduled Jan. 13 meeting, they unanimously gave the thumbs-down to a project that...
Pizza My Heart owner attends State of the Union
Los Gatos resident and Capitola business owner Chuck Hammers was invited by Rep. Jimmy Panetta to the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 7 to attend the State of the Union Address by President Joe Biden.
Hammers is the owner of Pizza My Heart in Capitola Village,...
Shannon O’Connor loses bail appeal
The woman accused of luring Los Gatos teens to wild parties and facilitating sexual assaults, appeared in court Monday for a hearing, just days after losing a bail appeal.
And while Shannon O’Connor didn’t enter a plea, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office says...
Computer retailing pioneer Don Wolf dies at 92
Computer retailing pioneer Don Wolf died May 30 at the age of 92, after recovering from a bout of Covid-19 earlier in the month, family members announced.
Wolf opened Idea Computer on N. Santa Cruz Ave. in downtown Los Gatos in 1982. It shortly thereafter...
Jack Kerouac left his light in Los Gatos
Jack Kerouac would stay at my parent's house whenever he was in town, San Francisco or Los Gatos. He would sit in what we would call “Jack’s chair” in the living room of our home in Monte Sereno. I would sit on the couch...
Los Gatos man on probation for insider trading now faces decades in prison
After being scooped up by the FBI recently during a federal court hearing in the Northern District of California, Mounir Gad, 35, had just made bail ($50,000—cash) and was on his way back to Los Gatos. He’d been ordered to live, once again, with...
Hook ’em Horns! Leigh girls soccer team caps historic season with CIF NorCal championship
The Leigh High girls soccer team—with seven players on the roster who live in Los Gatos—recently completed a historic season by winning the school’s first-ever CIF NorCal Regional Playoff Championship in any sport.
The Longhorns did it with a 1-0 win over Granite Bay on...
‘Brilliant’ businessman who developed swaths of Silicon Valley dies
Condominium and apartment developer John N. Brezzo, who built wide swaths of the Silicon Valley and founded the First Community Housing affordable housing corporation, died on Dec. 4. He was 79.
He is survived by his children Susan, 53, Steven, 52, Pietro, 44, and Marley,...
Robert Hawn, attorney and spouse of Los Gatos’ town manager, dies at 63
There’s been a flood of tributes this week to Robert V. Hawn, who passed away this month at the age of 63. A highly regarded business attorney, who played in a jazz band and volunteered his time to preserve the valley’s greenbelt, he was...
New firefighters look forward to a life of service
On Feb. 4, around the corner from weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin’s Sunnyvale campus, as contractors put the finishing touches on a blocky beige dual-hotel complex nearby, and directly across from Chinese search engine Baidu’s Silicon Valley HQ, a group of 13 firefighters were about...