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May 9, 2025

Builders prepare Old Town’s soon-to-be Salt & Straw interior as founder digs into the “Vault”

Salt & Straw contractors
As ice creamery Salt & Straw prepares its Los Gatos launch, the company is rolling out a new slate of flavors from co-founder Tyler Malek harkening back to its earliest days. The new menu items, which it's calling “the Vault Series,” will be released ahead...

Young women meet with female leaders

Women's Power Lunch
The Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara welcomed nearly 100 attendees recently to this year’s Young Women’s Power Lunch, hosting approximately 60 young women ranging from eighth grade through high school to meet with mentors comprised of female judicial officers, attorneys, elected...

Councilmember stonewalls efforts to workshop Code of Conduct

Hudes and Moore
During last week’s hour-long Policy Committee meeting to address issues with Los Gatos’ rules for Council members and commissioners, Councilmember Matthew Hudes refused to allow Councilmember Rob Moore to have a hand in improving guidelines his partner was recently found to have violated. And Hudes...

Nine LGHS greats to be honored in 2023 Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

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...

Youth reported for spraying a fence on Worcester Loop with ketchup; mountain bike stolen (Police Blotter, March 19-25)

ketchup vs Worcestershire
From the files of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department for the week of March 19-25. March 19 • A mountain bike was reported stolen from a home on Winchester Circle. March 20 • Vehicles were burglarized on Massol Avenue and Bachman Avenue. • A man was reportedly standing...

Anxiety over regional economy continues

Silicon Valley Bank
Two weeks after it collapsed in the face of a run on its deposits, former tech-lending giant Silicon Valley Bank—and the health of big and small technology companies—was in the national headlines once again. Late in the night on Sunday, March 26, the Federal Deposit...

Planning Commission discusses diversity plan

In August 2021, Councilmember Mary Badame, who is now Vice Mayor, made a motion to put $104,000 into justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) consulting work. It was seconded by Councilmember Matthew Hudes and approved unanimously, splitting the pot between two vendors—with American Leadership Forum...

Concealed carry permits skyrocket

guns
Business has been booming for Ziyad “Zip” Showket, a firearms instructor in liberal Marin County—thanks to six justices on the nation’s highest court. For two decades across four Bay Area counties, Showket has been schooling retired law enforcement officers, mall cops and the rare civilian...

State rolls back some water restrictions

Lexington Reservoir at capacity
The drought might not be completely done with California, but the state’s residents are now free of the strictest water conservation measures put in place by Gov. Gavin Newsom nearly two years ago.  Standing at a podium in front of a storm-soaked agricultural field in...

Driver flees up Highway 9 after crashing into pedestrian

Ben Lomond photo
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...

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