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A 45-year-old man accused of menacing Los Gatos Dog & Cat Hospital employees and threatening to commit a school shooting must face a single criminal count—plus an enhancement—Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Leila Sayar ruled on April 19. At the conclusion of Jose Mercado’s...

Traffic was snarled for hours on the primary route between Silicon Valley and the Monterey Bay when a truck carrying 8,600 gallons of fuel overturned this morning. The driver was taken to hospital with unknown injuries. The tanker crashed along southbound Highway 17 south of...

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority sent a representative to Los Gatos Council’s regularly-scheduled Feb. 7 meeting to explain why it’s modifying weekend service to the only route that passes through town. The #27 travels from Campbell, through town and then heads to South San...

The Los Gatos Town Council held its first meeting, closing out summer break, this past Tuesday, Aug. 5. In the two hour convening, among other things, Council members discussed local events that happened during the recess, debated the impact of federal funding cuts and...

The downtown Los Gatos retail scene has some new additions that suggest the brick and mortar retail sector is making a comeback. The newly opened Design by Mish, 143A E. Main St., employs a strategy that owner Mish Chadwick says is popular in her native...

Sunday, Oct. 5 Following the previous day’s three burglaries, two more occurred on Sunday. At 4:46 pm, a residence on Westhill Drive was broken into while the reporting person was on vacation. The back door was smashed and it is still unknown what was taken from...

Police Blotter for the week of Oct. 10-14. Oct. 10 • A home was reported burglarized on Via Encantada. Oct. 11 • A vehicle that had its keys inside was reported stolen on Los Gatos Boulevard at 6:35am. • A business was reported burglarized on Los Gatos Boulevard. • A...

Los Gatos’ first in-person Council meeting in a year brought out a full house on Oct. 18, as members debated what to do about a referendum brought by a group concerned with an increasing pace of residential development. While there was disagreement over how to...

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...

crestled in a microcosm to Los Gatos known as Redwood Estates, you find a charming little town with a post office, a bodega, and what the area has known for the last 30 years as Nonno’s. Whether it was with the intention of escaping the...