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Sam Liccardo is raising more money, spending more money and has more money in the bank than Evan Low in California’s 16th Congressional District contest, according to financial reports both candidates filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission. These new numbers continue the trends set...

A man who sexually abused students while teaching in the Los Gatos Union School District has been sentenced to 35 years behind bars. Joseph Brian Houg, a long-time teacher at Blossom Hill Elementary School, received no probation time Nov. 29, but will face parole of...

Los Gatos announced today it would hold its future public meetings online and not in-person, after things got out of hand at two of the last three Council dates. Writing on social news platform Next Door, Holly Zappala, a Town management analyst, said community members...

Rolling Hills Middle School 7th-graders and Louise Van Meter Elementary 5th-graders have completed an in-depth water monitoring educational course that highlighted what life as a professional H20 monitor would be like. As part of the Poseidon Education’s Stormwater Quality Leadership Program, the kids took samples,...

A boutique Bay Area "ecstatic dance" company is emerging from the pandemic with a series of in-person events in Los Gatos and the surrounding region. ALIXIR DANCE, an Oakland-based wellness brand focused on using free-form movement to build community, has set Tuesday nights at 7:30pm—beginning...

There wasn’t a specific address, just a crossroads. A good 20 minutes out of town, the intersection of Sears and Wright Station roads is definitely somewhere in the middle of nowhere. The hills were looking dry and not so green, even after the rain of...

One moment, the Los Gatos High football team was seemingly on its way to victory. The next, faces of disbelief littered the sideline.  It’s no wonder Wildcats coach Mark Krail called the 34-27 loss to Bellarmine in a Central Coast Section Division I playoff opener...

While in many cases, it’s one esteemed restaurant or another that initially attracts visitors to town, and yet, the shops they go on to frequent afterwards—or on the way—also play an important role in fostering that unique downtown atmosphere people love so much. But now,...

One could feel the excitement as families and players started to filter into Baggerly Field on March 12 to celebrate Los Gatos Little League’s first Opening Day since 2019. The ceremony was canceled in March 2020 due to the pandemic as well as in...

Longtime Los Gatos councilmember and newly sworn-in Mayor Rob Rennie announced Dec. 23 that he is delaying his campaign for county supervisor after the redrawn districts forced him out of contention in District 1. In a letter to supporters, Rennie said he plans to run...