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Mountain residents protest PG&E power outages
About 30 Santa Cruz Mountain residents made their way to downtown San Jose on Sept. 9 and bunched up on the concrete steps of the Pacific Gas & Electric office at 111 Almaden Blvd.
They held signs that read “UN PLUG PGE / NOT US”...
The nuances of collecting taxes from Los Gatos Tesla
The recent Grand Opening of the Tesla dealership and service center in Los Gatos sparked questions—including from former mayor Sandy Decker—about just how much of the company’s sales revenue would remain in the community.
So, the Los Gatan reached out to Town’s financial planners to...
Cloud workers take on cancer
On the morning of Nov. 9, employees of Xactly Corp., a Software-as-a-Service business based in San Jose, strode into Discovery Shop Los Gatos with purpose.
The group of cloud-software company workers had arrived on East Main Street in Los Gatos for a unique but important...
2 San Jose residents killed in Scotts Valley crash ID’d
Two people were killed when the car they were in collided with a commercial van yesterday, just before 5pm, according to the Scotts Valley Police Department.
The crash occurred along Mount Hermon Road just past Skypark Drive towards Felton.
The man driving the gold sedan and...
The ‘Wild’ case of a woman placed at-risk due to sketchy Santa Clara County paperwork
The office of Harry Ryan was the place Jack London penned his seminal novel “the Call of the Wild,” about a dog that’s taken from the Santa Clara Valley to the Klondike, where he befriends wolves and leads a sled team.
Ryan, who met London...
Los Gatos woman’s lawsuit against Gilroy Garlic Festival dismissed
A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge ruled Nov. 14 that a lawsuit brought forth by a Los Gatos woman who was injured during the 2019 Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting did not have enough evidence to go to trial.
Judge Frederick S. Chung granted the...
West Nile virus death reported
Santa Clara County health officials today reported the first death attributed to West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne illness.
The death this month of an immunocompromised adult at a local hospital “after experiencing West Nile virus symptoms” is the second reported human case of the potentially...
Driver flees up Highway 9 after crashing into pedestrian
A vehicle collided with a 40-year-old woman along Highway 9 in Ben Lomond, then drove off, on Sunday around 9:40pm.
“For reasons still under investigation, the vehicle struck the pedestrian while the pedestrian was in the northbound lane,” said Sgt. E. Addy, of the California...
Purchase adds more acreage to open space preserve
The largest preserve in the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District just got a little bigger, with the purchase of 42 acres in the Mount Umunhum area of the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve, district officials said Feb. 9.
The property, purchased for $168,000, is located...
Santa Clara County extends speed limit on stretch of Los Gatos mountain roadway
Los Gatos' representative on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors says it was the advocacy of local residents that led to extending the speed limit on a section of road in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Last week, supervisors adopted a resolution recommended by County...
