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November 4, 2026

Los Gatos Giving Serious Cash to Owners Moving Towards Semi-Permanent Parklets

Los Gatos dining
Los Gatos has extended the date businesses can operate temporary outdoor areas in front of their property to the end of January next year, as it transitions to a new, semi-permanent "parklet" regime. At its regularly scheduled meeting Aug. 17, Council voted to funnel $680,000...

Chance meeting in Los Gatos led to new brew ‘The Wave’

The Wave beer launch
It was a match made in heaven. The Promised Land Brewery in Gilroy developed a new craft beer called “The Wave,” after “Krazy” George Henderson, the man who invented the act that has become popular in stadiums across the country. Owner and brewer Brian Schwab said...

Cafe grateful for outpouring of support after shop partially destroyed; fundraiser reaches goal

Hope and Phillips by the Xmas tree.
Teri Hope founded Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Co. in 1982. When asked about what the last four decades have meant to her, she replies that it’s been an incredibly rewarding journey. On top of being a business owner in town, she raised a family...

Hometown tech giant Netflix chills on password-sharing: Here’s how locals feel about it…

Netflix campus
Editor: With Netflix in the process of rolling out new password-sharing rules in Latin America—and as digital TV and movie viewers have been criticizing the company for the impending crackdown—we sent our newest journalist, Don Le, on assignment to suss out how Los Gatans...

From a ‘Best of LG’ boutique to vaporizers and bongs?

mirrored display case with fake urine and other smoke shop-style items
Since the departure of women’s clothing boutique Jackie ‘O from what is considered prime retail space along North Santa Cruz Avenue, town residents, shop owners, Council members and the Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce have been wondering what might replace it. The three-years-running Best of...

Los Gatos Planning Years of Deficits

Los Gatos Council budget update Zoom screenshot
Town staff presented Council on Feb. 15 with a dismal picture of a pandemic recovery requiring around $2 million in deficits through 2026/27, although this year isn’t turning out as bad as anticipated. In fact, Los Gatos expects to be $500,000 less in the hole...

The Purple Onion is turning 20 this year

Purple Onion owner holds the door for a customer
The Purple Onion Cafe, which will celebrate its 20th year this spring, began as a catering business in Campbell in 2004, before opening in April 2006 in Los Gatos. Business partners Steve Angelo and Lisa Kilkenny met at a restaurant in 1995 called A...

Travel Advisors winds down after 64 years

Ed Stahl
In the last six decades, many things have changed in Los Gatos, and throughout it all, businessman Ed Stahl has been a community anchor. The Brooklyn-born Stahl moved to California following a stint in the US Army to work as a regional manager for...

SJ Water employees take field trip to learn about watershed

having a picnic
On Sept. 27, Eric W. Thornburg loaded up into a passenger van with his coworkers and headed out on a field trip into the Santa Cruz Mountains just above Lexington Reservoir. The Saratoga resident just happens to be the CEO of SJW Group, a utility...

Nob Hill leaving town, with Gus waiting in the wings

Gus's Community Market rendering for Los Gatos
The Battle of Blossom Hill grocers has ended before it had much of a chance to heat up. Four months after Amazon-owned Whole Foods opened a giant new store directly across Blossom Hill Road Los Gatos Almaden Road from Los Gatos mainstay Nob Hill Foods,...

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