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December 25, 2025

Covid-19 tests stolen; people in Town Plaza area disturbed by musician playing music; stolen bike found (Police Blotter, Jan. 23-29)

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From the files of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department. Jan. 23 • A musician was reportedly disturbing people with their music at Town Plaza Park on S. Santa Cruz Avenue at 11:34am. • A man was reported for approaching a home on More Avenue at 1:05pm,...

Town of Los Gatos doubles amount for parking ticket processor

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During its last meeting of 2022, Los Gatos Town Council passed a six-figure increase to the amount it will pay to Turbo Data Systems, Inc. for parking permit and ticket processing. In a unanimous vote, Council agreed to up the amount to send to the...

UPDATE: Shelter-in-place lifted, one dead in suicide

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-Updated Sept. 11 at 2:25pm A shelter-in-place alert was lifted for the Towne Terrace neighborhood of Los Gatos just before noon today, after a reported gunshot was determined to be a fatal, self-inflicted wound, authorities said. Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office Deputy Felicia Segura told the...

All signs point to PAL-SCVAL football-only merger for 2022

All signs seem to point to the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League and Peninsula Athletic League completing a football-only merger starting in the fall 2022 season.  Last week, the Board of Managers from both leagues signed off on the proposal, which would combine the 18...

Ukrainian festival in Felton Sunday raising money to support refugees here and to send funds overseas

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On Tuesday, Morgan Hill-based woodworking business California Craft House had to pull out of Sunday’s fundraiser for Ukrainian refugees set to be held in Felton, co-founder Iryna Kulchytska explained. “We had a death in the family in Ukraine related to war,” she said Wednesday. “My...

Chez Philippe celebrates 3 years on Bastille Day

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Restaurateur Philippe Leroy has a track record of opening French restaurants all over the world, from Palo Alto to Japan, but Los Gatos has brought in a unique traffic that he says he has yet to experience in his history of his culinary craft. Husband...

Public gets first look at council candidates

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Los Gatos residents got their first chance to evaluate potential new Town Council members over a pair of candidate forums in the last couple of weeks. Dozens of locals came out to both the Los Gatos Community Alliance event Sept. 13, which focused on economic...

Parents pulling out all the stops for LGHS Grad Night 2022

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About 150 parents have been toiling away on plans for the carnival set to be unveiled at Los Gatos High School to send seniors off into the wider world in style. The Class of 2022 Grad Night committee has about 75 co-chairs, as the community...

Los Gatos’ Ukrainian community shaken by war overseas

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An older woman with blonde hair clutches grocery bags and scurries out of the Slavic Shop, the Saratoga Avenue store where South Bay residents come to buy Dworek Ukrainian borsch, potato and cheddar pierogis, and marinated herring filets. The woman, who identifies herself as Ukrainian...

Tales of the Town: How a local weekly came to be

First issue of Los Gatos Weekly
The needle on my dashboard’s voltmeter gauge dropped suddenly like a tossed rock, and the VW shook to a halt on the upper deck of old Cypress freeway, the one that would collapse eight years later in the 1989 earthquake. With cars and trucks...

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