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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,...

Kevin Buchanan, the principal of Los Gatos High School, looked out at the bustling campus as his last year before retirement winds-down. He noticed a group of students playing with a ball on the lawn near East Main Street. “This is a good sign,” he remarked....

Last week, Los Gatos voted to enlist the talents of CSG Consultants, Inc. for building inspection services at the North 40 development site. Council made the decision to tap the company, which charges $160 an hour for Certified Access Specialist inspections, as part of a...

Downtown Los Gatos was flooded Saturday with green and red, different incarnations of Santa and Mrs. Claus strutting their stuff, young dancers and singers, and an abundance of cheer and goodwill. It was all part of the Holiday Promenade, which took cues from the successful...

LOS GATOS — In what’s being described as the entertainment industry’s largest transaction ever, Los Gatos-based Netflix announced a $82.7 billion deal Friday morning to acquire Warner Bros. The transaction is almost ten times larger than Amazon’s 2022 purchase of MGM for $8.5 billion. The bombshell...

July 24 will mark three years since Leslie Gentry’s 22-year-old son, Jolly Jones, died while detoxing from fentanyl. Gentry was living in San Jose and working in Los Gatos at the time, so she decided to hold an awareness hike here in town, exactly a...

Santa Clara County has received its first report of a case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, county officials said. The case was reported Dec. 9 involving someone who was fully vaccinated but had not received a booster. The person had recently returned from traveling...

A musical, social and pedestrian experience replaced automobile traffic on Thursday evenings beginning July 1. The weekly event, known as The Promenade, will run through August 12. Two musical stages bookend the stroll, which runs the length of N. Santa Cruz Avenue from Main Street...

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...

The total stock portfolio of the Legislature was worth as much as $112 million last year but experts say the public should know more about a politician’s total wealth. Assemblymember Gail Pellerin (D-28th District) and three other legislators led all of their colleagues in reporting...