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November 27, 2024

Meeting, concessions, win over Shannon Road residents for cycling and pedestrian route upgrade

Shannon Road
Los Gatos has been trying to hang on to environmental grants for a bike path along Shannon Road while still appeasing neighbors who didn't support the designs and felt like the Town hadn’t been listening to their concerns. The Town had secured a federal $940,100...

Los Gatos football looks to regroup after close loss

Expectations were high for the Los Gatos High football team’s non-league matchup against Peninsula powerhouse Sacred Heart Prep on Sept. 23.  However, a game meant to be defined by exemplary playmaking turned out to be an uncharacteristic showing for both sides, with Los Gatos taking...

Congregations come together for Interfaith Thanksgiving Service

They may not have packed a room the way they did in pre-Covid-19 times—when around 1,000 people turned up for the community’s Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service—but the around 125-strong in-person crowd was augmented by additional attendees participating remotely.  Jeffrey Hall, the senior pastor at Los...

Coroner identifies 76-year-old scooterist killed in Cambrian Park traffic collision

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The Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner-Coroner has identified the man who was killed in a Cambrian Park traffic collision this week as a 76-year-old San Jose resdient. Yongde Wo was killed around 4:20am Monday when his motorized scooter collided with a vehicle,...

Missing ballots turn up at Sugarloaf Road

Sugarloaf road
A rural site about four miles past the Santa Cruz Mountains summit, away from Los Gatos, is now the focus of the highest-priority investigation by the body that investigates mail system misdeeds. That’s because this patch of ground along Sugarloaf Road, just north of Scotts...

4 children reported for playing with a lighter at creek on Escobar Ave (Police Blotter, Sept. 18-24)

Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police shoulder patch
Police Blotter for the week of Sept. 18-24, 2022. Sept. 18 • A woman was arrested for being in possession of an open container of alcohol while driving on Los Gatos Boulevard and Walker Street at 1:20am. • A caller reported two men were standing outside “being...

Los Gatos introduces $56.1M budget

Los Gatos Civic Center with tall flowers out front
In order to avoid dipping into its retirement account to balance the budget, the Los Gatos Town Council resorted to an “accounting gimmick” where they changed their assumptions about how quickly HR can fill empty positions at Town Hall. The 2023-24 portion of the five-year...

General Plan: Commissioners weigh impact of more bird protections during remodels, upping housing at North 40 site

April 25 - General Plan Discussion at Planning Commission
It was another late night for planning commissioners Monday, as they went through the Draft 2040 General Plan line by line, carrying on from where they left off April 13. As the officials considered the potential impact of a suggested change to the Environmental and...

Suspect throws a cinder block through a business’ window on Oak Meadow Drive (Police Blotter, May 14-20)

cinder block and broken window
From the files of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department for the week of May 14-20, 2023. May 14 • Someone stole tools from a vehicle parked on Park Avenue. • A man was reportedly yelling at passersby on N. Santa Cruz Avenue at 1:20pm. May 15 • A...

Who to choose to fill Eshoo’s shoes?

Anna Eshoo's office
Former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo told the Los Gatan, Monday, he hadn’t decided whether to join the race for retiring Congresswoman Anna Eshoo’s 16th District seat, joining Supervisor Joe Simitian and former Saratoga Council member Rishi Kumar, but the way he talked about...
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