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Shootouts can be a nerve-wrecking deal for everyone involved, especially when it decides the Central Coast Section championship.  That’s the predicament the Los Gatos High and St. Francis field hockey teams found themselves in after they played a scoreless 60 minutes of regulation and 20...

Police Blotter for the week of Oct. 30-Nov. 5. From the files of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department. Oct. 30 • A man was arrested for being in possession of unlawful paraphernalia on the 200 block of Los Gatos-Saratoga Road at 3:55am. • A vehicle was...

On June 2, CSM Investments, LLC revealed its plans to convert the United States Post Office building downtown into a mixed-use development with housing.  This proposal, which is still in the “pre-application” stage, has been met with opposition from some local residents, but recent changes...

As Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel left the Sunnyoaks Fire Station in Campbell Monday, where she’d held a roundtable discussion with emergency and tech industry officials, the solar eclipse was traversing North America and she was in high spirits. Here at the McCormack Training...

Council Chambers were brimming as residents turned out Tuesday night for the ceremonial handoff of mayor and vice mayor duties. And as Rob Rennie, who’s been vice mayor for the past year, took the gavel from now-former mayor Marico Sayoc, he commended her for her...

The County of Santa Clara and the county’s Fire District are ramping up wildfire prevention efforts, just as the region heads into another fire season plagued with severe drought conditions. With the 2020 megafires—the Santa Clara (SCU) and Santa Cruz (CZU) lightning complex fires—still...

Congresswoman Anna Eshoo said she learned President Joe Biden was giving up his campaign for reelection the same way everyone else did. “I had just left mass and turned my phone on, and there was the announcement,” she said in an interview with the Los...

On an overcast spring day—20 years after planning began—a new prefabricated pedestrian, bicycle and ADA-compliant bridge was dedicated at Highway 9. It links Highway 9 to the Los Gatos Creek Trailhead, and is located beside an existing bridge. At this brief dedication were the visionaries who...

Smash Mouth lead singer Steve Harwell lived in Los Gatos and was slapped with a restraining order a year before a Oct. 9, 2021 meltdown in Bethel, N.Y., in which he flipped off and threatened to kill audience members and flashed a Nazi salute. The petition...

Los Gatos High School’s Class of 2022 celebrated their graduation on June 3. From dry grad party plans to studying for finals, the community had been looking forward to this for months. Principal Kevin Buchanan said the school is very proud of graduatesand staff “who have...