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Nine new inductees will be honored in the Los Gatos High School Athletic Hall of Fame 2023 Induction Ceremony at La Rinconada Country Club on May 6.  The Los Gatos Hall of Fame Committee works in conjunction with the high school to assemble each year’s...

Many of the 30 or so people who filed into the linoleum-floored community center, Tuesday, had no idea what was about to be announced, but with the balloons and the heightened sense of anticipation you could tell it would be massive. As Gail Pellerin, Los...

When the Los Gatos-Campbell Longhorns South 14U Pop Warner football team started the season 1-3, few thought they could turn around their season and finish with a winning record, let alone make a deep playoff run.  But head coach Saul Kennedy knew he had a...

Los Gatos resident Eric Drew is grieving, because one of his best friends just died. When Rotarian Bob Long was claimed by Covid-19 Aug. 27, he said, Los Gatos lost a key resident. “He was a pillar of the community,” he said of Long, who was...

Deborah Weinstein, executive director of the Los Gatos Education Foundation, recently visited Daves Avenue Elementary School, where its mascot, the Cool Cat, had been high-fiving students and handing out flyers. That was part of a drive during Suicide Prevention Awareness Month to bolster the Los...

First responders headed to the intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue and Main Street in Los Gatos just after noon on Christmas Eve to render aid to someone experiencing a health crisis, authorities said. Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department officers got the call at 12:33pm, police...

Celebrated English teacher Kurt Kroesche set down roots in Los Gatos in 2003, when he arrived in town for a job interview at Los Gatos High School. Kroesche, who grew up in the Pasadena suburb of Santa Marino, never looked back: He lives in town...

Plans are underway for this summer’s return of Music in the Park, the downtown Promenades and the 20th annual Jazz on the Plazz concert series. Los Gatans are so eager for summer fun that Jazz founder Teri Hope has been inundated for months with questions...

By earning a spot in the Central Coast Section Open Division playoff tournament, the Los Gatos High girls water polo team has proved it’s one of the very elite programs in the area.  The No. 5 seed Wildcats (25-2) play No. 4 St. Francis (16-9)...

On Friday morning, Rebecca Dmytryk, CEO of Humane Wildlife Control, got sad news from Santa Cruz County officials. A cougar had been reported dead in the Santa Cruz Mountains near a creek, and they wondered if she could look into it. “I’m dealing with a dead...