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Whenever the Los Gatos High and Mitty High field hockey teams play, it has a feel of a Central Coast Section championship match. That’s because the two teams along with St. Francis have combined to win the last 15—yes, 15—CCS championships.  So when the Wildcats...

The warnings have been coming for months: residents and businesses need to conserve water because Santa Clara County is in an “extreme and exceptional” drought. It’s why residents have been asked to use 15 percent less water than they did in 2019 but that goal...

Recall election certified The Sept. 14 California Gubernatorial Recall Election has been certified in Santa Clara County, Registrar of Voters Shannon Bushey announced Oct. 14. The majority of voters within Los Gatos voted against the recall, according to county election data, with precincts reporting between 57-74...

Tuesday night’s once-again all-digital Council meeting was a parade of residents, elected officials and non-governmental organization representatives expressing solidarity with Mayor Marico Sayoc’s family—in the face of recent disruptive attendee behavior—and speaking in support of public decorum. A staffer from Congresswoman Anna Eshoo’s office invoked...

The woman who threw alcohol-fueled parties for teens at her Los Gatos mansion, where sex was encouraged, arrived back in Santa Clara County yesterday after being extradited from Idaho, authorities said. Shannon O’Connor is scheduled to be arraigned today at 1:30pm. On Oct. 9 police...

After a judge partially granted a restraining order against mayor Marico Sayoc's husband, she faced a barrage of verbal attacks outside her own home.

When Jake Ripp was attending a half-dozen football camps and doing solo workouts in front of college coaches this past summer, he didn’t have to look far for advice.  His mom, Katy, played college and professional volleyball and knew everything her son was going through....

Los Gatos High cross country standouts Shea Elmore and Sophie Tau can be in the middle of a hard workout when they suddenly start busting out in laughter. In a sport as difficult as running—where one has to continually push their physical limits—keeping things...

As a reporter, Lee Quarnstrom worked for numerous publications around the U.S., including the Associated Press, the Register-Pajaronian and The Mercury News. He was also editor of Hustler magazine and a bookseller in Greenwich Village, and traveled with Ken Kesey’s peripatetic Merry Pranksters on...

She used to live just up the road, but was forced to leave Los Gatos by circumstance. But now, Mary McLean, 55, has returned triumphantly.  She played a guessing game with this reporter, during the recent Chamber of Commerce Wine Walk. The rhetorical question: “Who was...