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January 21, 2025

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Sidney French at home. (Drew Penner / Los Gatan)

The ‘Wild’ case of a woman placed at-risk due to sketchy...

The office of Harry Ryan was the place Jack London penned his seminal novel “the Call of the Wild,” about a dog that’s taken...
Suntan special

DISCOVER LOST GATOS: The Suntan Special

Summertime, and the livin’ is easy…unless you’re fighting bumper-to-bumper beach traffic on Highway 17. Even navigating from one side of town to another is...
Grant Ranch House

Historic house reopening to the public

After Josephine Grant McCreery bought out her siblings’ interest in a property in the Mt. Hamilton foothills, she lived in its main house until...
Lyndon Heights house historical photo

DISCOVER LOST GATOS: Lyndon Heights, a lost landmark

With plans underway for a massive redevelopment of the sprawling Los Gatos Meadows complex, I thought it might be interesting to share a brief...
Jack Kerouac and Al Hinkle in 1952

Jack Kerouac left his light in Los Gatos

Jack Kerouac would stay at my parent's house whenever he was in town, San Francisco or Los Gatos. He would sit in what we...
Boy must grow into this accordion

Article inspires generational transfer of musical instrument

When Virginia Primon was a shy teenager in the 1950s, playing accordion was something that got her onto a community float, to serenade people...
RIP Lee Quarnstrom

Remembering Merry Prankster Lee Quarnstrom

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...

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