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Tales of the Town: How a local weekly came to be
The needle on my dashboard’s voltmeter gauge dropped suddenly like a tossed rock, and the VW shook to a halt on the upper deck of old Cypress freeway, the one that would collapse eight years later in the 1989 earthquake. With cars and trucks...
Housing density tops questions in General Plan update
As Council members discussed the emerging General Plan and Housing Element documents, during a special session Dec. 7, they appeared hyper-aware they were dealing with one of the most sensitive subjects for many locals.
Officials looked at how the Town might alter its plans now...
Local Scene: Police academy; road work underway
Academy provides public with inside look at police department
The Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department is presenting its first Community Police Academy.
This is an opportunity for the public to participate in a 10-week program designed to provide an inside look at local law enforcement.
During academy...
2 murder counts for Boulder Creek man ID’d by victim before he was shot
On Monday, 36 days after police say Boulder Creek resident James David Collier, 66, shot and killed two men—then left their bodies in the back of a truck in the Santa Cruz Mountains—he had his first day in court.
That is, he was scheduled to...
Data shows slight decrease in number of unhoused people
The number of unhoused people counted across Santa Clara County dropped slightly compared to last year, according to preliminary results of the 2023 Point-in-Time (PIT) homeless census.
The data, released May 30 by the County of Santa Clara and the City of San Jose, shows...
Fire continues to burn at 50,000-sq-ft office building deemed a “total loss”
As afternoon turned into evening, fire had devoured 75-80% of a large commercial building on the border of Los Gatos and Campbell, authorities said.
The 50,000-square-foot vacant office on Dell Avenue at Knowles Drive started to burn around 10am this morning, and spread quickly, according...
Missing ballots turn up at Sugarloaf Road
A rural site about four miles past the Santa Cruz Mountains summit, away from Los Gatos, is now the focus of the highest-priority investigation by the body that investigates mail system misdeeds.
That’s because this patch of ground along Sugarloaf Road, just north of Scotts...
Darrius Leto and Los Gatos boys soccer team aim to turn things around
Like all of his peers in the previous 2020-2021 school year, Darrius Leto spent his junior year at Los Gatos High relegated to remote learning.
Knowing nothing was going to change, Leto decided to look into attending a soccer academy overseas which would allow him...
Local food delivery service continues expanding
Locale, a food delivery company with a focus on local restaurants and farms, continues its expansion throughout the Bay Area only a little more than a year since its inception.
Locale is the brainchild of Los Gatos natives and recent college graduates Chris Clark and...
Computer retailing pioneer Don Wolf dies at 92
Computer retailing pioneer Don Wolf died May 30 at the age of 92, after recovering from a bout of Covid-19 earlier in the month, family members announced.
Wolf opened Idea Computer on N. Santa Cruz Ave. in downtown Los Gatos in 1982. It shortly thereafter...
