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There’s been a flood of tributes this week to Robert V. Hawn, who passed away this month at the age of 63. A highly regarded business attorney, who played in a jazz band and volunteered his time to preserve the valley’s greenbelt, he was...

Though Council members acknowledged there were still months-worth of improvements ahead to get a final version prepared, in a special meeting held Monday, they voted to deem the current Draft Housing Element good enough to send over to the California Department of Housing and...

A 6-0 loss to a powerhouse St. Francis side on Dec. 4 showed the Los Gatos High girls soccer team is still learning to mesh with each other on the field and figuring things out. However, the Wildcats are confident the talent on the...

Sunday, Oct. 12 An ongoing parking violation has been occurring at the intersection of Victory Lane and West Main Street. A gold Honda Accord has been occupying two spots, instead of one.  At 4:14pm, an individual was reported for public intoxication at the Walgreens on North...

Henry Reyes has coached the Los Gatos High field hockey program to 17 Central Coast Section championships and five runner-up finishes, over a 32-year run that started in the early 1990s.  The Wildcats are the winningest program and gold standard in the section, having built...

A 35-hour curfew had been imposed on Elena Kramerova’s hometown of Kyiv. A residential building 10 minutes away from the 55-year-old’s home had just been bombed. But thanks to the quick thinking of her sister Laura Kramer Rahmil in Los Gatos—and her own steely resolve...

It was a year of growing pains for the Los Gatos High baseball team after it graduated 17 seniors from last year’s squad.  That meant there were a lot of new faces across the board playing together in a competitive schedule.  But this group of young...

With seemingly constant rain storms pummeling the South Bay so far this winter, a federal drought monitoring program recently downgraded most of Santa Clara County from “Severe” to “Moderate” drought. But local water supply authorities warn that residents and property owners should continue to...

The Los Gatos High boys basketball team hangs its hat on defense. Nowhere was that more apparent than late in the third quarter of its Central Coast Section Division I playoff home opener against San Benito High on Friday. The Haybalers needed a score to...

It was on Aug. 11 that 69-year-old Lexington Hills resident Sidney French reached out to Farmers Insurance to gain more information about the “Additional Living Expense” coverage on her home insurance policy. That’s the section that’s meant to help customers get reimbursed for costs incurred...