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During its last meeting of 2022, Los Gatos Town Council passed a six-figure increase to the amount it will pay to Turbo Data Systems, Inc. for parking permit and ticket processing. In a unanimous vote, Council agreed to up the amount to send to the...

Los Gatos Luxury Cars is the sort of place you might go to score a 2022 Rolls-Royce Ghost, a 2023 Lamborghini Urus or a 2022 Bentley Continental GT. And now the dealership is planning a major expansion—tearing down 8,584 square feet of existing space to...

The bodies of elite gymnasts take a beating, and Reese Drotar has the battle scars to prove it.  The recent Los Gatos High graduate and Level 10 gymnast has had four major surgeries in the last four years, three on her knee and the most...

The Los Gatos Union School District’s parcel tax expires next June, so voters are being asked to renew—and increase—the existing parcel tax. There will be two vote centers open in Los Gatos for the Nov. 2 election, with vote-by-mail ballots hitting mailboxes in early October.   The...

As wildfires burn through California, residents across the state are urged to have a “go bag” packed and ready to grab since precious minutes can make the difference between living and dying. That’s why members of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Community Response Team, CERT, were...

It’s Developers Who Should Reflect on their Impact I was ready to get the "fixins" out for a batch of s’mores after reading your contributor's piece "Transformative Mediation: A Tool for Balanced Growth” (Los Gatan Sept. 18). That is, until I reached the conclusion where it...

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors recently approved a plan aimed at improving emergency response planning and communication in the Loma Prieta area of the Santa Cruz Mountains, a community that straddles the Santa Cruz and Santa Clara County lines. Earlier, in November, Supervisor...

At the regularly scheduled May 23 Community Health and Senior Services Commission, members commended the efforts of organizers of a recent seniors fair, where upwards of 200 people attended and plenty of useful information was handed out about service providers. Lydia Norcia, who was appointed...

For the first time this season, the Los Gatos High football team found itself in uncharted territory—with an opponent that kept things close several minutes into the fourth quarter.  However, the Wildcats passed the test with flying colors, literally running away from Wilcox for a...

A 45-year-old man was killed when a tree fell on a home just north of Boulder Creek yesterday around 3:30pm. Ashley Keehn, of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office, said Robert Brainard III was killed when a tree slammed into a home on the 14100...