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“One man’s rubbish may be another man’s treasure.” —Hector Urquhart West Valley Recycles (WVR) has an outreach team to help us learn to recycle correctly. Forget what you knew about recycling guidelines. Things have changed, and we have new laws to ensure we recycle in the most...

Kelly-Moore Paints, a 78-year-old paint company, announced last week that it is closing all its stores nationwide due to legal and financial burdens.

Wayne Heimsoth peered in the window of the terracotta roofed former home of the Los Gatos Art Museum on the corner of Tait Avenue and West Main Street. In the midmorning sun last Thursday, he remarked on what appeared to be new carpet. The 77-year-old...

Aug. 30 A couple at Andale Taqueria on North Santa Cruz Avenue was reportedly aggressive when the caller asked them to leave at 10:41am. Someone was arrested on a misdemeanor charge after striking the caller in the face, destroying her home and throwing things at her...

Just as the world was shutting down with the arrival of SARS-CoV-2, a Brazilian doctor named Carlos R. Degrandi Oliveira, penned an article in a peer-reviewed journal that sounded the alarm about a little-discussed at-risk group—anesthesiologists.  On top of day-to-day dangers, such as ionizing radiation,...

Santa Clara County's top health official urged residents Monday to get an updated Covid-19 booster vaccine if they are eligible to do so as the holiday season approaches. According to Health Officer and Public Health Director Dr. Sara Cody, just 11 percent of Santa Clara...

A 65-year-old Scotts Valley man was pulled from a van that broke through guardrails along the Santa Cruz Wharf and plunged into 30-foot-deep ocean water Sunday morning. The driver, identified as William Westerman, was pronounced dead at the hospital, and a dog found by...

Santa Clara County is outpacing the state in uptake of the omicron-specific Covid-19 booster vaccine across all eligible age groups, the county's top health official said. Roughly one-third of county residents ages 65 and up have received the updated booster compared to just 24.3 percent...

Planning Commission voted April 9 to recommend a General Plan amendment to allow 100% affordable housing projects in mixed-use commercial and restricted highway commercial zones. Commissioner Susan Burnett was the lone vote against. She said Los Gatos has been going further than it has to,...

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...