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Last week, Council voted to approve a budget with $78 million in spending and $76 million in revenue for the coming year. To make up the difference, Los Gatos is relying on more than a million of one-time General Fund Reserve dollars. But while the community...

The Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce's ongoing summer evening series made a big splash last week during one of those 100+ degree Fahrenheit days we’ve been having. Many Los Gatans brought themselves and their children out of the air conditioning and into downtown to see...

Was it Monopoly, Scrabble, backgammon or chess? According to Fun.com the board game market grew by 20% in 2020 (the Covid lockdown era), and revenue from board games sales was expected to hit $12 billion in 2023. Chess “is the best-selling board game of all...

While perusing the wares at many local retailers this past chilly weekend, I was joined by throngs of shoppers, out looking for holiday gifts. There were gaggles of young women, and the usual senior citizen couples, with the wife dragging the husband in and...

Santa Clara County health officials announced Feb. 9 that local indoor masking requirements will not be lifted on Feb. 16, which is the date the state will rescind its order. Instead, Santa Clara County will continue to base decisions on whether and when to lift...

It wasn’t all that hard to find fancy gift options for male recipients, when I set out about town on this latest quest of mine. And not all products and services are created equal. Of course, the best gifts are the ones that come...

From the files of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department for the week of April 10-16. April 10 • A man was arrested for hit and run and driving under the influence of alcohol on University Avenue and Blossom Hill Road at 3:43am. • A vehicle was...

Last night, Monte Sereno City Council voted unanimously to adopt a Housing Element that should be "good to go." On April 22, the California Department of Housing and Community Development sent a letter to the City, saying it was prepared to certify their all-important homes...

A recent statewide snowpack measurement from the California Department of Water Resources is another indication that the tremendously wet winter might have been too much of a good thing. The agency’s readings from 130 snow sensors placed throughout the Sierra Nevada show the  snowpack’s snow-water...

It’s a Wednesday afternoon and Sydney Jayne, 42, is in an empty room with walls as white as a blank painter’s canvas. Milky rays spin in through the skylight she installed with her boyfriend Tachu Soto, for the new incarnation of her Jayne &...