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The Los Gatos High football team opened the 2022 season in the same way it ended the 2021 season—with a loss.  Same venue, same electric atmosphere, same result, different opponent. Instead of Bellarmine in last year’s Central Coast Section Division I playoff game, Southern California...

Los Gatos' top cultural touchstones—including Jazz on the Plazz, the Dance Company of Los Gatos, the NUMU museum, West Valley Youth Theater, and Fiesta de Artes—were honored by readers in the Best of Los Gatos 2023 poll.

Along a Highway 101 frontage road near San Juan Bautista there’s a discrete wrought iron sign proclaiming, “FREEDOM REIGNS.'' You may have driven by many times and never noticed it, or the keypad located just below to the left. We slowed down to enter...

A Los Gatos nonprofit started by the family of a teenager who died unexpectedly has launched a partnership with the Campbell Union High School District to test the hearts of some students. On June 16, the District voted to require heart screenings for 9th and...

The death of 46-year-old Jennifer Cobb—who was found with her 50-year-old husband in a Los Gatos home, Feb. 15—has been classified as a “homicide” by the Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner-Coroner. Her partner, Cornelius Bangma, died by suicide, the coroner determined. Both died...

Aydon Stefanopoulos might’ve not gotten the time he wanted in the Woodbridge Classic—one of the largest and most prestigious high school cross country invitationals in the country—but it doesn’t mean the Los Gatos High junior had a terribly disappointing race.  Far from it. Stefanopoulos entered...

The rain returned in earnest Saturday, but the 66th Annual Los Gatos Children’s Christmas & Holidays Parade went ahead as scheduled. And what a spectacle it was. “It’s fun,” said Eret Cresta, a 16-year-old Los Gatos High junior who was keeping dry under a tent....

A 42-year-old Los Gatos man has been arrested for sexual assault in San Jose. On June 10, around 4:15pm, San Jose Police Department patrol officers responded to a report of a sexual assault in the 300 block of Lincoln Avenue. Upon arrival, officers determined a victim...

In perfect weather last week The Houserockers kicked off a summer of Music in the Park Sunday concerts at the Civic Center Lawn. This week it was ESTERO—on another gorgeous Sunday afternoon—bringing their psychedelic California-soul and roots-rock project, fronted by Northern California musicians Eric Lindell...

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...