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AP students at LGSUHSD beat national average in standardized tests (board meeting update)
At the Oct. 9 Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District board meeting, Associate Superintendent Deepa Mukherjee presented an overview of the district’s Advanced Placement (AP) program, showing that overall, students tended to outpace learners from around the country in last Spring’s AP exams.
The District...
Man attacked at VTA station has died
Authorities have shared a tragic update to a story we brought you in this week's newspaper.
The man who was brutally attacked at a Valley Transportation Authority light rail station in late September has died from his injuries.
And because of this, the attempted murder case against Brandon...
POLICE BLOTTER (Sept. 28 – Oct. 4)
Sunday, Sept. 28
An approximately five-minute-long honking began on Ridgecrest Avenue at 11:56am. A Porsche Cayenne and an Acura MDX were involved.
The reporting party was riding his bike before 8pm, when he said he was hit by a car. The driver and the reporting party...
Local doctor earns national humanitarian award from health system
I met Dr. Mohammad Subeh in the Good Samaritan Hospital lobby, just after he returned from the HCA Healthcare Inc. headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee, where he’d traveled to receive the Frist Humanitarian Award. This award was created in 1971 and named after HCA’s co-founder...
Los Gatos shoe designer’s creations land on Sex and the City reboot—and in Sabrina Carpenter’s closet
Scarcely a week goes by without Los Gatos women’s footwear designer Flor de Maria Rivera’s creations for her namesake company making a splash on one of the world’s biggest stages.
Last September, Nicki Minaj was photographed performing in Pittsburg, Penn., on her Pink Friday 2...
Firefighters extinguish commercial blaze in Campbell at dawn
On Monday, Oct. 6, at 7:02am, Santa Clara County 9-1-1 Communications received a citizen report of smoke coming from the bottom of a commercial roll-up garage door at a building on the 1330 block of Dell Avenue in Campbell.
Firefighters along with the Campbell Police Department...
Q&A: Mayor discusses town issues in wide-ranging interview
Los Gatos has seen its fair share of change over the decades, due, in part, to its small-town desirability during a period when wealth poured into Silicon Valley.
But even with the abundance of new money, in a rapidly-shifting economy local officials have their work...
Man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following violent assault on VTA platform
Santa Clara County Sheriff’s detectives have arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with a violent assault at a Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) light rail station that left another man with life-threatening injuries, authorities said.
According to the Sheriff's Office, Brandon Fryshaw was taken into custody hours after...
Monte Sereno City Council gets pair of new faces
The newest leader on Monte Sereno City Council is the husband of a recent Los Gatan cover star. In September, KCAT TV Executive Director Melissa Toren appeared on our P1, as she helped kick-off the Oktoberfest party she was instrumental in organizing in Los...
Mental health app encourages mindfulness
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have a reputation of reinventing the tried and true, from how we communicate and socialize, to how we consume entertainment. And now founder and CEO Nima Yazdani wants to reintroduce meditation to a new generation with his meditation app called myMentalPal,...
