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Rescuing Rocket, the cat stuck up a tree for several days
On Tuesday morning, an AT&T worker attempted to rescue Rocket, the orange and white cat stuck up an 85-foot-pine in Los Gatos, with his bucket truck.
The 3-year-old male cat had come down quite a bit from where it had been the prior evening, when...
Los Gatos approves four-condo development
After a “public hearing” that didn’t attract any public commenters, Planning Commission approved a four-condo development that staff had initially recommended against, July 27. It almost didn’t even happen, as 10 minutes into the meeting the applicant hadn’t shown up to the Zoom meeting—so...
After historic season, Los Gatos girls basketball starts anew with a new group and optimism
Even though the Los Gatos High girls basketball team returned a solid core of players off a 2021-2022 squad that finished 25-4, won a Central Coast Section championship and advanced out of the opening round in the CIF NorCal playoffs, each season is a...
Los Gatos adopts objective design standards for multi-family homes
Town Council agreed on a set of design rules that will govern multi-family homebuilding in the community, during its Nov. 15 meeting.
The so-called “objective standards” may not be exactly to the liking of every Council member, but at least having them in place will...
Los Gatos High football team firing on all cylinders
Seven touchdowns on 14 plays.
No, that’s not a typo. That’s what the Los Gatos High football team did in its Oct. 28 Santa Clara Valley League De Anza Division game against Mountain View before most of the starters were pulled in the third quarter...
Despite push to require a vegetarian menu item, RH expansion in Los Gatos approved unanimously
On Oct. 7, Council unanimously approved a project from the interior design and food & beverage service company RH that will reshape Old Town, giving new life to spaces that once held Gap, Steamers Grillhouse and others. Topics discussed during the public hearing included...
Q&A: Researchers probe labor standards for restaurant industry employees
Earlier this month, a representative for a UC Berkeley research project set up a booth in Town Plaza Park in hopes of connecting with locals in a key sector of the Los Gatos economy—food service.
In partnership with the County of Santa Clara, contractor Ming...
Harvest fest idea gets thumbs up at Council brainstorm session
During their Dec. 17 regularly scheduled meeting, Council approved a $22,017.16 raise for Town Attorney Gabrielle Whelan.
That works out to a 5% cost of living adjustment retroactive to July 7, and a 2% merit increase retroactive to Nov. 24, bringing her annual salary to...
Man arrested after displaying imitation firearm; rock thrown through vehicle window (Police Blotter, Sept. 11-16)
From the files of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department for the week of Sept. 11-16.
Sept. 11
• A caller reported loud music coming from a house on Ridgecrest Avenue at 12:11am.
• Someone threw a rock through a vehicle’s window on Pinehurst Avenue.
• A porta-potty...
Councilmember Hudes decries ‘self-flagellating’ language in Housing Element, opposes sending to State
While multiple Housing Element Advisory Board members took issue with some of the more progressive language in the latest draft of the Housing Element, Sept. 28, everyone but Councilmember Matthew Hudes ended up voting to make no changes to the document before submitting the...
