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Sept. 3 • A man was arrested for driving with a suspended license on Cherry Blossom Lane and Shannon Road at 1:32pm. • A man reportedly stole eight bottles of liquor from a store on Blossom Hill Road at 2:51pm. • A man was reportedly pushing a...

Brett Heimlich’s road to winning the Stanley Cup began years ago in Los Gatos. He’d recently graduated from high school and was casting around for a policing or audio/visual job, when he went to a family barbecue at the home of a friend his mom...

On the 143 acres that make up West Valley College campus, there is a single building that houses the College of Adaptive Arts (CAA). Last week I arranged a tour with Nicole Kim, the executive director at CAA. As she welcomed me in, I...

Sept. 19 • A man was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol on the 16300 block of Los Gatos Boulevard at midnight. • Police were unable to locate a suspicious vehicle reported on Belvue Drive at 2:26am. • A vehicle was burglarized at a hotel...

Californians infected with Covid-19 may go about their lives without isolating or testing negative as long as their symptoms are improving, according to new and significantly loosened guidelines from the California Department of Public Health.  California’s top public health official, Dr. Tomás Aragón, last week...

Henry Reyes has coached the Los Gatos High field hockey program to 17 Central Coast Section championships and five runner-up finishes, over a 32-year run that started in the early 1990s.  The Wildcats are the winningest program and gold standard in the section, having built...

During their Dec. 17 regularly scheduled meeting, Council approved a $22,017.16 raise for Town Attorney Gabrielle Whelan. That works out to a 5% cost of living adjustment retroactive to July 7, and a 2% merit increase retroactive to Nov. 24, bringing her annual salary to...

Former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo told the Los Gatan, Monday, he hadn’t decided whether to join the race for retiring Congresswoman Anna Eshoo’s 16th District seat, joining Supervisor Joe Simitian and former Saratoga Council member Rishi Kumar, but the way he talked about...

The results of a new survey from the Los Gatos Community Alliance show that when it comes to the future of Los Gatos, there’s a gaping divide—between homeowners and renters. This survey of registered voters in Los Gatos, conducted Oct. 12-18 via telephone interview, email...

To really understand the whole mess in San Mateo County, you have to start with the overtime logs. Or maybe it was the urinating puppy. Or perhaps it was the $1,200 boots. San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus is facing removal by the Board of...