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Los Gatos shoe designer’s creations land on Sex and the City reboot—and in Sabrina Carpenter’s closet
Scarcely a week goes by without Los Gatos women’s footwear designer Flor de Maria Rivera’s creations for her namesake company making a splash on one of the world’s biggest stages.
Last September, Nicki Minaj was photographed performing in Pittsburg, Penn., on her Pink Friday 2...
Santa Cruz Mountains wildfire extinguished
A fire that grew to a half-acre in the Santa Cruz Mountains was extinguished quickly Friday morning before it could threaten the nearby communities of Boulder Creek and Brookdale, authorities said.
The fire broke out before 6:30am, said Ben Lomond Fire Protection District Chief Stacie...
Mandatory water saving plan is in the works
The warnings have been coming for months: residents and businesses need to conserve water because Santa Clara County is in an “extreme and exceptional” drought.
It’s why residents have been asked to use 15 percent less water than they did in 2019 but that goal...
Los Gatos adopts compliant Housing Element
As Los Gatos prepared to finally adopt a compliant Housing Element—after 20 residential proposals were submitted during the purgatory period when the Silicon Valley community was out of line with State law, including a live one that includes a 12-story building—questions swirled about who...
Testarossa’s 2021 vintage is winemaker Bill Brosseau’s 25th harvest
When Bill Brosseau graduated from UC Davis, he moved down to the Novitiate in Los Gatos, the home of Testarossa Winery. Just two years later he replaced founding winemaker Ed Kurtzman, becoming the force behind the juggernaut success of the brand named for proprietor...
The chanterelle just got enshrined in California law (+ other bills that made it over the finish line)
Every year, California’s legislators send a flurry of bills to the governor in hopes he or she will sign them. And that’s before the byzantine legislative process that leaves most proposed laws on Assembly and Senate curtting floors.
In 2023, the lawmakers sent off 1,046...
County blocked homeowner’s attempt to access CZU insurance money before two-year deadline
The Santa Clara County Department of Planning and Development has been preventing a homeowner in the Lexington Hills area of Los Gatos from accessing public documents needed to fix damage caused by the storm that sparked the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex fire.
A Department of...
Monte Sereno’s latest mayor recalls helping with the Los Gatos founding of Atari
Lon Allan, 82, remembers the scrappy 1970s in Silicon Valley, when his client, future Video Game Hall of Famer Nolan Bushnell, hadn’t co-founded Atari yet.
“He was the founder, I was his lawyer,” recalled Allan, the new mayor of Monte Sereno, during a recent interview...
New Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department chief is first woman to hold the role
This week, when the Town of Los Gatos appointed Jamie Field chief of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department, it represented a milestone. The community has never had a woman leading the force before.
In an interview with the Los Gatan, Field said she was...
Shelter-in-place issued for Towne Terrace neighborhood
This morning police issued a shelter-in-place order for the Towne Terrace neighborhood.
Around 11am, the Los-Gatos Monte Sereno Police Department posted on Instagram about police activity in conjunction with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office.
"Shelter in place and avoid traffic in the University Ave corridor,"...
