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After Los Gatos failed to win a grant it went after—which was supposed to help it improve the safety of a key thoroughfare—planners returned to Council, Dec. 6, to present scaled-back designs. But as Town staff outlined the new drawings for the Blossom Hill Road...

Emotional support dogs from the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department and the nonprofit Canine Companions joined high schoolers for lunch on Los Gatos High School’s front lawn, Aug. 24. Organizer Esha Bagora, a junior at the school, said the idea was to provide stress relief...

If you turned northbound on Highway 17 from Lark Avenue earlier this month, you were directed toward a fictional city. As you prepared to merge with the traffic heading away from Santa Cruz, the Highway Gothic sans-serif on a green background proclaimed that “Campell”...

After being scooped up by the FBI recently during a federal court hearing in the Northern District of California, Mounir Gad, 35, had just made bail ($50,000—cash) and was on his way back to Los Gatos. He’d been ordered to live, once again, with...

Thousands of people across the Greater Bay Area experienced electrical outages today, with more than 10,800 customers in Santa Clara County and more than 7,000 customers in Santa Cruz County losing power, according to the utility. The Santa Cruz County disruptions were mostly weather-related, including...

A Los Gatos nonprofit started by the family of a teenager who died unexpectedly has launched a partnership with the Campbell Union High School District to test the hearts of some students. On June 16, the District voted to require heart screenings for 9th and...

All signs seem to point to the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League and Peninsula Athletic League completing a football-only merger starting in the fall 2022 season.  Last week, the Board of Managers from both leagues signed off on the proposal, which would combine the 18...

The wheels of town government came to a grinding halt Sept. 7 as an unruly audience that included anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, police union representatives and public safety advocates shut down a Los Gatos Town Council meeting.  The descent into chaos is part of a pattern of...

From the files of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department for the week of Jan. 31-Feb. 5, 2022. Jan. 31 • No injuries were reported after a vehicle overturned on Montclair Road in the early morning hours. • A woman was arrested for obstructing a peace officer...

Startups are constantly thinking of new ways to solve old problems, and recycling is an area ripe for reinvention. That’s the picture painted by Ridwell, a waste-diversion company based in Seattle, Washington. This supplementary recycling “B Corp” wants to give Silicon Valley consumers another method of keeping...