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November 5, 2025

Senior nutrition program scores 35K grant; high school district adds to admin roster; free sandwiches (local scene)

funding for seniors
Live Oak Receives 35K Grant The Los Gatos Foundation for Older Adults to Thrive announced Feb. 29 a $35,000 grant to the Live Oak Senior Nutrition Center to address a shortfall in funding for senior meals in Los Gatos. The grant came from the Successful Solutions...

Blood: The hot commodity everyone needs

Blood by Ahmad Ardity
We've got a crisis on our hands, and it's not the latest TikTok trend or an avocado shortage. We're talking about a severe blood drought. The life-giving, accident-saving, surgery-enabling fluid is in shorter supply than toilet paper during the whole pandemic debacle. You might be...

Town Manager Laurel Prevetti plans June Departure

Town Manager Laurel Prevetti
Last Updated: March 11, 2024 @ 2:19 pm. The Town of Los Gatos announced today that Town Manager Laurel Prevetti will step down in four months, at the end of June. She was named to the position more than eight years ago, in 2015, after...

Town Council shuts-down request for another nonresident on new DEI Commission

Los Gatos Town Council
Last night, all but one Los Gatos Town Councilmembers voted against allowing another person who doesn't live in the community to serve on a body meant to make life in town more multicultural and open to people of all backgrounds. And even Councilmember Rob Moore—the...

Updated: 16th District results show former SJ mayor Liccardo and Sup. Simitian in top slots

collecting ballots
Electoral candidates across the region worked to get out the vote during Super Tuesday, as the political landscape narrowed dramatically. And in early results, Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian and former San Jose mayor Sam Liccardo had risen to the top of the 16th...

Official from veterans organizations hopeful after Town breaks 4 Tait Avenue lease

Wayne outside building
Wayne Heimsoth, the Los Gatos Veterans Memorial and Support Foundation and the Campbell Veterans Memorial Foundation boardmember, was thrilled to learn from the Los Gatan last week that his dream had come true—at least the first step of it. Just after the Los Gatan went...

Caltrans fixes ‘Campell’ typo

Caltrans Ron Winnick
If you turned northbound on Highway 17 from Lark Avenue earlier this month, you were directed toward a fictional city. As you prepared to merge with the traffic heading away from Santa Cruz, the Highway Gothic sans-serif on a green background proclaimed that “Campell”...

8 tips on how to discuss your mental health with others

sharing with others
It can be frustrating to struggle with your mental health and to get your family and friends to understand where you are coming from. Although most people may be understanding, there is usually one or two people who will make things more challenging for...

Car strikes 4 bicyclists on Hwy 9

An 85-year-old woman from Boulder Creek plowed into four bicyclists Tuesday on Highway 9 in the San Lorenzo Valley. Israel Murillo of the California Highway Patrol said CHP responded to a report of a crash at 6:21pm, south of Glengarry Road.  The woman was driving a...

HEART OF OUR TOWN: Developer behind post office projects keeping options open

Post office property
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” —motto associated with the United States Postal Service But developers might? Our little charming town of Los Gatos has had a post office since 1864. But...

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