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Boutique ice creamery Salt & Straw to open Los Gatos location
Back in the late ‘90s when Kim Malek worked at Yahoo! in Mountain View, she learned to surf in Santa Cruz—one of her fondest memories—and hung out amid Los Gatos’ cute shops.
Now, after launching one of the West Coast’s most in-demand ice cream chains,...
Backyard entertainment (Home of the Week)
This Los Gatos home that was built in 1957 was remodeled in 2020.
Located at 17070 Crescent Drive, the 3,460-square-foot home includes five bedrooms and three bathrooms, along with a 318-square-foot bonus room.
The extensive remodel of the home included upgrading and replacing much of the...
Did Los Gatos’ Housing Element suddenly fall out of compliance?
The developer behind the 119-unit, 13-story “Capri Fruitstand” proposal for 14288 Capri Dr.—which includes 24 units of affordable housing—has renewed its legal claim that the Town of Los Gatos has been taking illegal steps to block residential development in this corner of Silicon Valley.
In...
For LGCS softball, Magic is in the air
The Los Gatos-Cupertino-Saratoga (LGCS) Girls Softball Association is celebrating a milestone this season in its 30th year of existence.
To mark the occasion, the program’s premier fundraising event of 2023, Decades of Magic, will be held at the La Rinconada Country Club from 6-10pm on...
Banks of Lexington Reservoir scoured by volunteers on National River Cleanup Day
As avid rowers of the Los Gatos Rowing Club, we frequently encounter trash floating in the Lexington Reservoir during our practices. The scope of this problem is alarming. Every year, the San Francisco Bay is overwhelmed by a staggering 7 trillion pieces of microplastics,...
For Wildcats QB AJ Minyard, reality is better than a dream
Despite being a Santa Cruz resident, AJ Minyard’s place and role was always with Los Gatos High and its football team.
The senior quarterback was the Wildcats’ ball boy starting when he was 6 or 7 years old and served in that capacity all the...
2 boys were reportedly hitting trees and bus stops with metal poles on N. Santa Cruz Ave (Police Blotter, Aug. 30-Sept. 5)
Aug. 30
A couple at Andale Taqueria on North Santa Cruz Avenue was reportedly aggressive when the caller asked them to leave at 10:41am.
Someone was arrested on a misdemeanor charge after striking the caller in the face, destroying her home and throwing things at her...
Educating the younger generation a focus at this year’s 9/11 memorial
In On That Day: the definitive timeline of 9/11, author William M. Arkin notes that at 9:36am on Sept. 11, 2001, Lt. Col. Kevin Nasypany directed fighter jets based out of Langley go straight to Washington to be available to intercept incoming threats.
By this...
St. Paddy’s Day, The Butter Paddle’s ‘Inside the Studio’ series and a Sleeping Beauty wedding
Where did Los Gatans celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this year?
Short answer: all over town.
But I came up with a longer answer: from Hapas tap room, through Chez Phillipe (with a bite of the French version of corned beef-cabbage), an iced green matcha at Los...
Boas shares her journey to becoming Bentley and Rolls-Royce brand manager at Luxury Cars Los Gatos
Adriana Boas interviewed for a position to represent luxury cars in 2015 not knowing much about cars. Months earlier, in Aptos at the shoe and purse shop where she was working, a regular customer presented her with her business card and asked her a...
