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High school students grow fruit organization; reader questions food inflation numbers
Produce army seeks recruits
We are FruitShare.org, an organization founded and run by high school students, dedicated to reducing fruit waste and combating food insecurity in our community. Our mission is to collect and pick surplus fruit from homeowners' backyards and donate it to local...
Here’s how Los Gatos can keep its commissions active
During the past few years, I’ve served as a member of the Community Health and Senior Services Commission (CHSSC) in Los Gatos. For most of that time, our commission, which is supposed to have six adult members and one youth member, has had one...
Let’s create community by patronizing our fabulous Los Gatos Theatre
According to Merriam-Webster, a “community” is a unified body of individuals with common interests living in a particular area.
My mother taught me as a kid that community was everything—and that you volunteered to make it better. Bill Weaver, my boss at KLOK-AM, my first...
Journalism is keeping victim’s memory alive (and other letters)
(In response to “Los Gatos man must face trial on charges of murder, false imprisonment”)
Thank you, Drew, for your diligent reporting and for keeping this case in the public eye.
May Dawn (Yingying Yu) rest in peace, and may justice be done.
Shannon
—via LosGatan.com
Article sends reader...
Lessons I’ve learned from ‘How Big Things Get Done’
I did not inherit my father’s handyperson skills, although I remember observing him install central air conditioning and successfully accomplishing other large projects at our house in Kings Point, New York. Perhaps seeing a booklet lying around his workroom describing how to build a...
Letter: Sustainability, stewardship and the future of La Rinconada Country Club
Recent commentary about the renovation at La Rinconada Country Club has raised understandable questions—and, unfortunately, some misconceptions—about what is actually taking place on our grounds.
As stewards of a property with nearly a century of history and deep roots in the Los Gatos community, we...
FROM OUR INBOX: Try biking for a change
You should bike short distances instead of driving because it is more environmentally friendly, is more cost effective, and is a great way to get some exercise.
Cars emit approximately three billion metric tons of carbon dioxide a year worldwide. Biking instead of driving will...
Here’s how we can improve mental health and substance abuse services
The Community Health and Senior Services Commission (CHSSC) recently reported to the Town Council, detailing deficiencies in the delivery of mental health and substance abuse services in Los Gatos. CHSSC’s possible next step, subject to council approval, will be to develop a roadmap to...
Parents proud of football-playing graduate son
We would like to give a shout out to our son (Franklin D. White III) who graduates from Los Gatos High School this Friday. As a transfer student from Saratoga High School his sophomore year, his journey through Los Gatos High has been filled...
Writer says mayor and vice mayor got the shaft in recent article about Town’s Housing Element
Dear Editor,
I'm writing to share my personal opinion (and not speaking in my role as a Planning Commissioner). It looks like you got your facts wrong in the May 7 edition of the Los Gatan. Throwing Mary Badame and Matthew Hudes under the bus...
