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It was a whirlwind 12 months of store-openings, community-building, future-envisioning and infrastructure development, but as they say, all good things must come to an end. And so tonight—with her characteristic beaming smile plastered on her face—Mayor Maria Ristow handed the baton to Mary Badame, who...

Every year, California’s legislators send a flurry of bills to the governor in hopes he or she will sign them. And that’s before the byzantine legislative process that leaves most proposed laws on Assembly and Senate curtting floors. In 2023, the lawmakers sent off 1,046...

On Saturday morning, Los Gatos Kiwanis boardmember Nancy Pearson arrived at Old Forbes Mill with coffee and donuts in-hand, prepared to guide members of the Los Gatos High School Key Club, and other volunteers, on an environmental spruce-up.  While embarking on this green clean, Pearson...

Two candidates seeking to become Santa Clara County’s next tax assessor emphasized their contrasting backgrounds and visions for modernizing the office during a Meet the Candidate forum Sept. 8 at the Morgan Hill Grange. But Saratoga resident and tech executive Rishi Kumar, another of the...

As Los Gatos High girls basketball coach Sara Quilici Giles was watching game film of San Benito High, it didn’t take long for her to realize that the Wildcats needed to stop Bailey Cotter in order to advance out of their Central Coast Section...

As a Bay Area high school student, the pressure to get ready to apply for college bothered me since my freshmen year. I picked extracurriculars with admissions officers in my mind, tailored my course load to my prospective major and spent hours ruminating over...

From the files of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department for the week of June 4-10, 2023. June 4 • A woman was arrested for being in possession of unlawful paraphernalia on the 15500 block of Union Avenue at 1:55am. • A man was arrested for driving...

By now, people across the country—and beyond America’s borders—have seen visuals of the Pacific Palisades and Eaton fires in Southern California from the safety of their homes, on TV and via the internet.  As the world watches, local firefighters have been in the thick of...

While town officials have thought about introducing electric scooters (and other) shared mobility devices, it never quite felt the time was right to embrace them. But now, that’s changing—as an e-scooter company comes a-knocking. “We did have outreach from one company, from Bird,” Matt Morley, Los...

Computer retailing pioneer Don Wolf died May 30 at the age of 92, after recovering from a bout of Covid-19 earlier in the month, family members announced. Wolf opened Idea Computer on N. Santa Cruz Ave. in downtown Los Gatos in 1982. It shortly thereafter...