Business

Barbara Hinman, 82, just moved to Los Gatos to live with her daughter Karen Shields. Along with hundreds of others, they took to the blocked-off North Santa Cruz Avenue last night to soak up the first in a series of Thursday Promenades. “The music down there...

In 1947, Jim Kooper started “University Ave. Barbershop,” which stayed in the family for three generations. After most recent owner Clint Farris closed it down, Alper Yavuz purchased the business. He’d stumbled upon it, on Craigslist, and was instantly drawn to the spot. Yavuz...

Covid-19 halted life-as-usual for the world and left a lot of failed companies in its wake. Some faltered with the introduction of regulations that allowed only “essential” businesses to remain open; for others it was not securing grant funding. In the business community, there...

Rejoice, Los Gatos: The Pastaria is now open for lunch, serving from noon to 3pm Tuesdays through Saturdays. Established in 1995 by Donna Novi, the pasta-focused eatery moved to the former Opa! space at the west end of North Santa Cruz Avenue in mid-December of...

One of the developers behind the North 40 project along Highway 17 in Los Gatos has brought the town’s former mayor, Marcia Jensen, on board to launch a consultancy. The Bachman Avenue-headquartered Harmonie Park Development, a company with around 10 million square feet under management,...

The County department that’s been threatening a Santa Cruz Mountains resident with thousands of dollars in fines and possible civil or criminal prosecution has been dealing with serious backlog problems, according to a 2019 memo obtained by the Los Gatan. Sidney French, 69, who lives...

Spring is a time filled with renewal and optimism as we look forward to getting together to enjoy sunshine and longer days. With the arrival of warmer weather, you are sure to find me out and about with my labradoodle (and aspiring Chamber of...

When voters approved Proposition 64, the 2016 initiative that legalized recreational marijuana sales in California, 62 percent of Los Gatos residents voted for the measure. But Prop. 64 allowed municipalities to prohibit dispensaries within their jurisdictions, so Los Gatos banned them. Today, there are 42 retail...

Nonno’s Italian Cafe is the sort of mountain hangout where on a chilly Friday night you’ll hear “I’m Just a Singer (In a Rock n’ Roll Band)” by the Moody Blues blaring as bundled-up patrons gather around a fire next to the bocce ball...

Willow Street Wood-Fired Pizza has deep roots in the Silicon Valley restaurant scene. Its journey began in 1991 in Willow Glen, introducing gourmet wood-fired pizza in a small brick building where its flagship remains.  Its success led to a Los Gatos expansion two years later...