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November 23, 2024

Instead of vacating, The Maids’ Quarters fights on

Maids' Quarters Remains Open
The day after its lease expired, downtown linen boutique The Maids' Quarters continued to offer its pillows, antique goods and high-end button-up shirts for sale. It's the latest development in a bitter feud where the long-time Los Gatos independent retailer claims it was duped into...

Attorney for man suing Los Gatos businesses via disabled-access complaints weighs in

Mistie Boulton is defending against multiple Scott Johnson lawsuits
The lawyer representing Scott Johnson, the quadriplegic suing at least 18 Los Gatos businesses over disability-access concerns, is firing back at critics who believe his client is treating mom-and-pop businesses unfairly. Dennis Price of the Center for Disability Access, a division of Potter Handy, LLP,...

Mountain residents protest PG&E power outages

Power and Service
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”...

(VIDEO) 20th Anniversary of 9/11 ceremony honored Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham + first responders

doves at 9/11 20th anniversary
"Extraordinary acts on behalf of ordinary people," reads the plaque at the 9/11 Memorial in Los Gatos that commemorates the actions of hometown heroes Todd Beamer and Mark Bingham. They were two of the people responsible for helping bring down Flight 93 in the...

What do Los Gatans want?

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In recent years, online sales and big box stores delivered a double whammy to retailers nationwide, with the pandemic making it even more difficult to stay in business.   That’s evident in Los Gatos, where numerous businesses across town have shut their doors. To be sure, new...

Los Gatos football game to raise funds for Coaches Against Cancer

When the Live Oak and Los Gatos football teams clash in Morgan Hill on Friday, they’ll be playing for something far greater than trying to notch another ‘W’ in the win column.  They’ll be a part of the first-ever Coaches Against Cancer football game. Coaches...

Median work on Los Gatos Boulevard continues through November

Traffic on Los Gatos Boulevard is expected to be impacted through November as crews construct a center median between Lark Avenue and Walker Street. The work is part of the North 40 development currently under construction. Message boards were placed to inform motorists and the community...

The Maids’ Quarters owner says she’s being forced out

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The woman who’s owned The Maids’ Quarters linen shop in downtown Los Gatos for 40 years says she was “duped” by new business partners she was going to share her space with, and now must vacate the premises. But the couple who plans to open...

One told she looked like an “Italian model,” another says writing censored: sex abuse fight challenges in Silicon Valley

sex assault survivors march
“Survivor rights are human rights!” “Rapists do not belong at prom!” “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Gender violence has got to go!” These were just some of the chants about 70-80 students and others belted out as they walked along N. Santa Cruz Avenue just after...

Los Gatos’ Summer Street Party Series Deemed a Gigantic Success

Los Gatos Street Party - promenade
For seven Thursdays this summer, music wafted through the generally sleepy streets of Los Gatos, thanks to money from President Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan Act, with the number of revelers growing each week. As Catherine Somers, the executive director of the Los Gatos Chamber...

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