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Former Bear Creek Stables manager charged with animal cruelty
The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office has charged Chaparral Ranch, the former manager of Bear Creek Stables in Los Gatos, with criminally failing to care for a horse that died from malnutrition and heat stroke last year.
Honey the horse was found unable to...
Parkworth Wealth Management scooped up by Illinois’ Savant
On the day Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs for a slew of countries went into effect, Aug. 7, we reached local financial advisor Bruce Baron to get his perspective on how recent economic developments could rock the boat in his world.
That’s because the company he...
Weekend fires quelled before they could damage structures, remote-control cows
On Sunday afternoon, inmate firefighters battled flames that spread to just over 2 acres alongside their counterparts with Santa Cruz County, Cal Fire, Central Fire, Santa Cruz City and Bonny Doon fire departments—with help from California Highway Patrol officers—just north of Davenport, which was...
New Campbell tech company emerges from the shadows after 2 years
Campbell-based Oxmiq Labs Inc. last week announced its all-new GPU software and IP startup to the world, after two years of keeping mum about developments.
The company is the brainchild of Los Gatos resident Raja Koduri, one of the top players in the highly-competitive global...
Town Council: Weed removal, an appeal of a development and federal funding cuts discussed
The Los Gatos Town Council held its first meeting, closing out summer break, this past Tuesday, Aug. 5. In the two hour convening, among other things, Council members discussed local events that happened during the recess, debated the impact of federal funding cuts and...
County seeks sales tax increase
Santa Clara County supervisors voted unanimously Thursday to ask voters to approve new sales taxes that will place half the county in the double-digits.
The sales tax increase will be on the Nov. 4 ballot. Thursday was the last day for items to be added...
Meet the doctors taking over the community radiology clinic in Los Gatos
The frequent flow of planes dropping low over Central Coast shrubbery toward a Monterey Regional Airport runway, over brown mid-rise office-outpost rectangles that house the Pacific Cancer Care, recalls the constant stream of Silicon Valley air traffic descending into the San Jose Mineta International...
LGSUHSD announces new board meeting schedule to increase engagement
On Monday, the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District announced a new schedule and format for its Board of Trustees meetings, beginning this year.
Regularly scheduled meetings will now take place on Thursdays, about every three weeks.
And the Closed Session portion will be moved from...
Sunrun sends a record amount of energy to California’s grid
An analysis by The Brattle Group found that Sunrun’s fleet of home batteries across California was the largest contributor to a historic distributed power plant dispatch event that delivered an average of 535 megawatts to the grid—enough to power more than half of the...
No one injured in Saratoga vehicle fire
Yesterday, a little before noon, Santa Clara County Fire Department firefighters from its Saratoga station responded to a vehicle fire along Fruitvale Avenue, in Saratoga.
"Firefighters arrived as West Valley Community Police were working to extinguish the flames with three fire extinguishers they had available,"...