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EARLY RETURNS SHOW PARCEL TAX WILL LIKELY EARN APPROVAL
Hanssen: ‘I love that the plan would involve tons and tons of community outreach’
Judy Peterson, Reporter
Initial vote tallies released immediately after polls closed at 8pm on Tuesday had the Los Gatos Union School District’s Measure B parcel tax increase headed toward approval, with 75.37% of voters saying “yes” to the tax. The parcel tax needs twothirds voter approval to pass. “For 30 years, Los Gatos citizens have supported our schools by renewing a local school funding measure,” said “Yes on B” co-chair Ryan Rosenberg. “Today, we are delighted that tradition will continue with the likely passage of Measure B. We would like to thank the many volunteers and endorsers who worked tirelessly to pass Measure B, and to ensure the best possible future for our children.” Measure B would increase the parcel tax from $290 to $335 per parcel, per year for eight years, generating an estimated $3.2 million annually. It includes a 2% annual “inflation adjustment” that kicks in during year two. The new tax would take effect in July 2022. The tax would apply to all residential and commercial ➝ Measure B, 8
COMMISSIONERS WEIGH CANNABIS REGULATION AND REVENUE IMPACT Drew Penner, Reporter
READY TO POUNCE Wildcats quarterback Jake Boyd (12) looks to throw during the team’s 56-7 win over Mountain View in a Santa Clara Valley League De Anza Division game on Oct. 28. Los Gatos High is a win away from a perfect 10-0 regular season. For the story, turn to page 9.
The idea of opening up Los Gatos to cannabis establishments seemed to strike a chord with commissioners young and old at the Oct. 27 Planning Commission meeting. Canceling the prohibition on such commercial operations could be an important economic puzzle piece, Commissioner Melanie Hanssen commented, in response to a staff presentation. “It isn’t going to solve all of our problems,” she said. “But we do have the death of retail as we know it happening as we speak.” Town Attorney Robert Schultz gave commissioners a broad rundown of why the council believes it’s important to open a community conversation around allowing products containing THC and other cannabinoids within the community’s boundaries. When recreational marijuana was legalized across the state in 2016, a greater percentage of local residents were in favor ➝ Pot Commission, 6
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STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE REMAINS STEADY DURING PANDEMIC, PRINCIPALS REPORT But administrators say scores could dip Drew Penner, Reporter
Local high schools are starting to get a sense of just how far students are falling behind due to Covid-19. And unlike other districts in the region, for the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District, the answer appears to be—not much. After the first grading period, Saratoga High School boasted an average 3.6 GPA amongst its students, according to Principal Greg Louie, speaking at the school board meeting Oct. 12. Los Gatos High School Principal Kevin Buchanan reported a similar situation at his school. “It’s not significantly worse than normal,” he said. “However, the teachers are still giving the students quite a bit of grace.” If the school climate were less “forgiving,” teachers might’ve marked more D’s and F’s, following two years of dis-
rupted schooling due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Buchanan added. At Saratoga, only one percent of grades were F’s, while 70 percent were A’s, and just two percent were D’s, Louie said. He noted that the first grading period usually results in the highest marks, before they dip in the second section, rebound a little in the third—and then dip again in the fourth. “It sort of has that dance to it,” he said, adding students are taking an average of 6.6 classes. In SAT testing of seniors across the District, around 43% of students performed above state averages in math benchmarks in 2019-20, and around 29% of students did so in language arts. Graduation rates remained at 97% in 2020-21. In 2021, 226 students had two or more D's or F's in the first six-week marking period (184 at Los Gatos and 42 at Saratoga), according to school board data. This was only slightly higher than in the pre-pandemic six-week marking period in 2019, when 198 students had two or more D's or F's (147 at Los Gatos and 51 at Saratoga). The great performance in spite of the circumstances has a lot to do with the
significant support students are receiving from teachers, according to Louie. “Overall it’s been good,” he said, boasting a 98 percent attendance rate and few students who are arriving late to class. Los Gatos High’s principal reported high attendance rates, too, but said a lot of pupils have been showing up late to class. “What are we going to do to deal with this?” teachers have been asking, Buchanan said. During the meeting the board unanimously approved a $28,272 contract with Fresno County Superintendent of Schools Jim Yovino, for CyberHigh, an online credit recovery program used for students placed on Home Hospital Instruction—up from $13,592, last year. The District also OK’d a contract with Seneca Family of Agencies, which provides community-based services to families and students, including those in danger of being placed in a Residential Treatment Center. Its “wraparound” services will cost the District $5,000 per month, including weekly child and family team meetings, and services by a masters-level clinician.
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LOCAL STUDENTS HONORED AT BIOLA UNIVERSITY
Three Los Gatos residents were named to Biola University's Dean's List for academic excellence. The students are: • Alyssa Kwong, majoring in Business Administration • Anna Gustafson, majoring in Intercultural Studies • Jotham Ho, majoring in Biological Science They joined approximately 1,700 students who were named to the Dean’s List in spring 2021. Biola students are placed on the list to honor those with a GPA of 3.6 or higher while enrolled in 12 or more credits and whose cumulative GPA is at least 3.2. “Inclusion in Biola University’s Dean’s List is reserved for students who demonstrate exceptional performance in their academic studies. This honor signifies hard work, engagement and investment in scholarship,” said Tamara Anderson, Associate Provost of Academic Effectiveness and Administration. “These attributes are the building blocks of continued success, not
only in the classroom, but in the workplace and in the student's personal lives. We celebrate these students and their achievement, looking forward to their future accomplishments.” Biola University is a Christian university in Southern California.
BOOSTER SHOTS FOR ALL COVID VACCINES NOW AVAILABLE Along with Covid-19 Pfizer booster vaccinations, the County of Santa Clara will now administer booster shots to those who received the Johnson & Johnson or Moderna vaccine and are eligible under CDC guidelines. County clinics are taking appointments at sccfreevax.org and everyone eligible is encouraged to receive a booster shot. “We now understand that the protection from the initial vaccine series may decrease over time, and a booster shot is highly effective in preventing serious hospitalization and death,” said Dr. Sara Cody, health officer and director of Public Health for the county. “We especially urge everyone 65 and older to re-
ceive the booster shot, as well as anyone who lives in a long-term care facility, and anyone 50 years and older who has an underlying medical condition.” People who received their initial series with any of the three Covid vaccines (Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Moderna) may now be eligible for a booster. Boosters are recommended for: • Everyone 18 and older who received their Johnson & Johnson shot two or more months ago. • Most people who received their Pfizer or Moderna shot six or more months ago. Those who are 65-plus, 18 and older living in a long-term care facility, or are 50-plus with an underlying condition, are urged to get their booster as soon as possible. • Those who are 18 and older and have an underlying medical condition, or work in a setting that may increase their risk of exposure, may also consider getting a booster. As of Oct. 21, 74,290 county residents had received their booster shot and 39 percent of eligible people age 65 and older had received one. ➝ Local Scene, 6
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COUNCIL HOPES TO SEE GREEN Pot Commission, from page 1 Courtesy of Town of Los Gatos
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of legalization than in other parts of Santa Clara County, and yet Los Gatos quickly passed a blanket prohibition on commercial cannabis operations. Schultz explained that with San Jose expanding its cannabis licensing regime, if the Town doesn’t act now, it could end up in a situation where it has multiple dispensaries on its doorstep—serving local residents—without getting any of the tax revenue. Silicon Valley currently has 28 cannabis delivery operations and 41 dispensaries (with some overlap between the two categories). San Jose is allowing retailers in good standing to open a total of 16 additional pot shops. Each of the 16 current shops brings in about $1 million a year for the city, although there is a wide range of how much a single store can generate, Schultz said. Because Los Gatos isn’t a place with much in the way of agricultural or industrial land, and given testing facilities wouldn’t provide much financial benefit to the Town, retail would likely be the best candidate for prohibition relaxation, he added. “It’s really tough for me to estimate what future tax revenues would be,” he said, putting the potential figure anywhere in the range of $300,000-$1 million a year. “We do need additional revenues.” A man who identified himself as a Los Gatos resident who serves as the chief revenue officer for a large cannabis company spoke during public comment, commending the Town’s attor-
ney on his “comprehensive research.” Commissioner Hanssen wondered why cannabis products couldn’t just be sold alongside other items in a more generic sort of retail environment. “Why would you have a standalone store for it?” she asked. “Maybe I’m missing something.” Schultz replied that California’s cannabis licensing regime has been challenging for would-be pot entrepreneurs to navigate, and said he doesn’t believe the Department of Alcohol Beverage Control would allow that, anyhow. He also pointed to important lessons Los Gatos could glean from recent experiments with legalization. On the one hand, Palm Springs opened its proverbial gates and 45-50 marijuana-related businesses flooded in. On the other hand, Mountain View ultimately decided to allow just two— cannabis delivery operations. “What Mountain View was doing was taking a baby step,” Schultz said. “At least it captures some of the revenue.” And Redwood City “is going through it right now and has done a really good job with their process,” he added. According to Schultz, there tend to be a lot of people who want to get into the cannabis business “that don’t know what they’re doing,” but he said the Town could take steps to mitigate any potential concerns. “There’s always noise, lighting and odor impacts,” he said, pointing to one example of a measure Los Gatos could take. “You can regulate signage and appearance.”
Palm Springs just revised its regulations to deal with resident concerns about smelly pot shops. Commissioner Jeffrey Barnett asked where the local legalization drive was coming from. “Tax revenue is a very high priority for Council,” he said, pointing to the top reason he’s touring local meeting halls with his presentation, but says it’s an important topic to consider, regardless. “We’ve never had this community discussion.” Barnett asked how the Town officials look at the fact cannabis is still an illicit drug, in the eyes of the federal government. Schultz said there has been some progress made to allow marijuana-based businesses to bank legally, adding that the federal government is not currently prosecuting any cannabis retail shops. “It still can be a concern,” he said. Commissioner Jeff Suzuki said he appreciates that the Town is finally starting to have a mature discussion about pot, but said the “elephant in the room” is the “cultural impact” that opening a store would have. And yet, he added, given the community’s older-skewing demographics, providing easier access to cannabis products could have serious positive impacts for Los Gatans. “There’s a large population of people who need some sort of medication just to function in their daily lives,” he said. “They don’t want to use opiates.” Commission Chair Kathryn Janoff said she’s been trying to convince her
89-year-old mother to use cream for her arthritic hand. “These products would be a great benefit to our aging population,” she said. “We’ve come a long way.” Schultz said the benefits scientists are exploring relating to cannabis aren’t just to do with the more wellknown THC, but also CBD and CBN, compounds that are also found in the plant. The Town is trying its best not to have a repeat of the gun shop situation, he added. Following the Sandy Hook mass shooting, a businessman reportedly received death threats when he opened a firearms store. “We probably all thought of the gun shop example,” Commissioner Emily Thomas said. “You want to have community involvement before that happens again.” Schultz said the community is already showing interest in the topic, including through an online poll it’s circulated via Survey Monkey. “We can’t get anybody to participate in other ones,” he said. “But they want to participate in this one.” Commissioner Hanssen said she’d be glad to see the proactive approach. “I love that the plan would involve tons and tons of community outreach,” she said. Commissioner Reza Tavana said he was surprised to see it on the agenda. “I think we’re a little bit behind on this topic,” he said, pointing to the Town’s declining retail revenue stream in spite of efforts to turn that around. “This could bridge the gap.”
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Local Scene, from page4 Cal Fire has lifted the burn permit suspension in Santa Clara County. Cal Fire Santa Clara Unit Chief Jake Hess is formally cancelling the burn permit suspension and advises that those possessing current and valid agriculture and residential burn permits can now resume burning on permissible burn days. Agriculture burns must be inspected by Cal Fire prior to burning until the end of the peak fire season. Cooler temperatures and the chance of winter weather have helped to diminish the threat of wildfire, Cal Fire stated in a press release. Property owners and residents are asked to use caution while conducting debris or agriculture burns, follow all guidelines provided, and maintain control of the fire at all times. Individuals can be held civilly and/or criminally liable for allowing a
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properties within the school district’s boundaries, except for properties owned by older adults. The school district oversees five schools in Los Gatos: Blossom Hill, Daves Avenue, Lexington and Van Meter elementary schools and Fisher Middle school. In early October, the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters sent 20,918 vote-by-mail ballots to Los Gatos voters; 6,782, or 32.42%, were returned by Oct. 31. In addition to mailing ballots, voters could drop them off at special drop boxes that were set up at the Los Gatos Civic Center and the Redwood Estates Pavilion. The Pavilion and Blossom Hill Elementary School were official election day in-person vote centers. Blossom Hill poll worker Peter Schwarz said late Tuesday afternoon that “we’ve had more than 60 people vote in person and at least twice that many drop-offs.” Election Specialist Lorenzo Castaneda was also there and explained that after people vote in person they insert their completed ballot into a machine that captures an image of the ballot and tabulates their vote. “If it’s correct you hit ‘cast’ and there’s your proof that you voted,” Castaneda said. First-time voter Bryce Despars turned 18 two weeks ago and said his first trip to the polls was “cool.” He registered to vote on site just minutes before casting a “Yes on B” vote.
Registrar of Voters Public and Legislative Affairs Manager Evelyn Mendez did not expect final results until Nov. 3 because tallying in-person votes is time-consuming. “There are a lot of steps before we start counting,” Mendez said. “We have to open and flatten the ballot, scan it and check the signature,” Mendez said. The initial election night results that were posted at sccvote.sccgov.org were comprised of mail-in ballots that the Registrar of Voters had already tabulated. “The vote-by-mail ballots are tabulated as they come in but the results aren’t reported until election night,” Mendez said. “The vote-bymail ballots are locked in a secure area with cameras and only certain staff members are authorized to enter that room.” The vote-by-mail drop boxes are secured with a steel cable and they’re cleared out every night by a team of two, Mendez said. “The boxes only open enough to put a ballot in and only limited staff can pick up ballots,” Mendez said. “There’s also a tamper seal on the box, it’s like a serial number that changes daily, so we can tell if the box has been tampered with.” To ensure the election count is valid, the Registrar of Voters will manually tally 1% of the ballots cast on Nov. 15 at 1555 Berger Drive, San Jose. Call 669287-5399 in advance or email michael. borja@rov.sccgov.org to observe the manual tally in person.
WITHOUT CONSENSUS, TOWN COUNCIL UPDATES ITS MEETING RULES Drew Penner, Reporter
The Los Gatos Town Council moved forward Tuesday with a pair of initiatives intended to regain control of meetings that have become increasingly disorderly in recent weeks as a pro-Trump faction protested vaccines and LGBTQ inclusion during public comment periods. While the first reading of a permanent residential-no-picketing ordinance passed unanimously, Vice Mayor Rob Rennie disagreed with an element of the new conduct policy and cast the lone vote against the rules. The contingent that marred previous sessions with jeering and shrill critiques of moves to promote diversity, along with under-their-breath taunting of public speakers, appeared not to have called in to Tuesday’s virtual meeting. On Oct. 26, the Council Policy Committee unanimously recommended language updates clarifying the process for handling a person disrupting a meeting of any Town board, committee or commission. “The Town embraces diversity and strongly condemns hate speech and offensive, hateful language or racial intolerance of any kind at Council Meetings,” the proposed rules state. “Town Council and staff are well aware of the public’s right to disagree with their professional opinion on various Town issues. However, anti-social behavior, slander, hatred, and bigotry statements are completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated in any way, shape, or form at Town Council meetings.” Under the update, any disturbance resulting from a member of the public disobeying the rules can be muted if participating remotely or ejected if in-person. Violators could even be cited for violating California Penal Code Section 403, which is considered a “crime against the public peace.” The new law gives the mayor the right to call a recess for policy violations “resulting in the immediate cessation of the audio and video recording and the Council exiting the Chamber,” according to the staff re-
port about the policy change. “Staff will determine if the individual should be removed or if all members of the public should leave depending on the extent of the disturbance. In the event that all public members exit, only the press would be allowed back in.” No member of the public asked to speak about the issue. Initially, Councilmember Mary Badame made a motion to accept the recommended changes as-is. But Councilman Matthew Hudes, in seconding the motion, asked if it was possible to require public speakers to provide their name and say whether they reside within Town boundaries. “In the past, we did that; we had a speaker card that we had people fill out,” he said. “It seems to me we would be more focused on what we were here to do if we were able to understand who was speaking and if they were a resident of the town.” But Town Attorney Robert Schultz informed Hudes that would likely be illegal under the Brown Act, the state law that ensures government is conducted in a fair and open manner. “The Brown Act specifically states you cannot require registration,” he said. “It is possible to request it.” Hudes suggested such an amendment to the motion. But Vice Mayor Rennie worried about the potential chilling effect of specifically asking the public whether they lived in Los Gatos before considering their opinion on a subject. “I just want to say that to me it’s not that relevant whether somebody’s a resident or not,” he said. “You never know where good ideas are going to come from.” Next, Council moved forward with a permanent residential-no-picketing ordinance. At its previous meeting, as protesters targeted the homes of the mayor and vice mayor, Council passed an emergency (but temporary) residential-no-picketing ordinance. Town Attorney Schultz said the language was chosen based on previous no-picketing ordinances that had already underwent court challenges.
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Los Gatos looks to complete 10-0 regular season, win outright league crown Emanuel Lee, Sports Reporter
PLOWING AHEAD Wildcats junior running back Chase Hinson (26) looks for running room as senior tackle Colin Dooley (55) clears the way during the team’s 56-7 win over Mountain View in a Santa Clara Valley League De Anza Division game on Oct. 28.
route in front of me and the QB was staring it down. He threw it a little too high.” Once Heard intercepted the ball, he immediately accelerated to the sideline, where he had a convoy of blockers to spring him to the end zone. Heard still had to make a couple of nifty moves to juke a couple of defenders and perform a nice balancing act to stay in bounds. “I was tight roping down the sideline,” he said. “When one of us gets the ball, we’re looking for the end zone right away. That’s what we work on in practice. I saw a hole, all my guys were blocking and I just hit it.” Heard could’ve simply knocked the ball down and Los Gatos would’ve taken over at its own 27-yard line. But once he intercepted the pass, Heard knew he had to return the ball at least that far or he would’ve heard it from the coaches. “I got to it and was kind of freaking
out,” Heard said. “I told myself, ‘I gotta return this farther or else coach is going to kill me.’” Said Krail: “The ball is in the air and I’m yelling, ‘Knock it down, knock it down, don’t catch it.’ So what does he do? He catches it and takes it 99 yards. It’s one of those ‘no-no-no, oh, yesyes-yes, go-go-go’ moments. He has a great nose for the ball and he’s played great all year at free safety for us.” On its first seven TDs, Los Gatos needed just four plays or less to reach the end zone. Lucas White had a huge punt return that set up Los Gatos for an easy score on its third possession. Starting at the Mountain View 25yard line, Boyd hit Quinn Meritt, who made a leaping, acrobatic catch for 22 yards. From there, Alejandro Quijada ran around right end untouched for a TD to make it 21-0 with 4 minutes, 4 seconds left in the first quarter. Caspian Bailey ripped off a 61-yard TD run
which was followed by short scoring runs from Boyd and Quijada and another interception return for a touchdown from the defense that put the Wildcats up 49-0 going into halftime. On the second defensive touchdown, Jack Temple hit the Mountain View quarterback as he was releasing the ball, and it popped up in the air before landing in the arms of Kevin Rogers, who returned it 22 yards for the score. “It all starts with the physicality and speed with which we play,” Krail said. “We wanted to get off to a fast start and we did.” Los Gatos has won all nine of its games by 21 points or more, a testament to its dominance. Heard said the competition within practice keeps the team sharp. “Honestly, our best competitor right now is ourselves in practice,” he said. “We all keep the intensity up and know we have to stay focused.”
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Seven touchdowns on 14 plays. No, that’s not a typo. That’s what the Los Gatos High football team did in its Oct. 28 Santa Clara Valley League De Anza Division game against Mountain View High before most of the starters were pulled in the third quarter so the reserves could get some playing time. The team’s reserves went on to score another TD later in the game. “It was a pretty amazing performance,” Wildcats coach Mark Krail said. Of that, there is no doubt. Crisp, focused and in rhythm, Los Gatos crushed the visiting Spartans 56-7 to clinch at least a share of the league championship. The Wildcats (9-0 overall, 5-0 league) can clinch the title outright with a win against Milpitas on Friday. “This is a good team and we have been all year,” Krail said. “It was kind of a weird week because everything felt out of rhythm, but I kind of challenged the guys to prove me wrong. It felt like we were just a little bit off this week in practice and I said, ‘Prove me wrong guys.’ And they certainly did.” Los Gatos’ performance was all-encompassing. It dominated in all three phases of the game and made things look too easy. After the defense forced a three-and-out on the opening possession of the game, the offense scored on its second play when quarterback Jake Boyd connected with Luke Pittock for a 53-yard touchdown on a go route down the right side of the field. Mountain View (5-5, 2-4) threatened to score on the ensuing series only to have Wildcats safety Landon Heard make a leaping interception and return it 99 yards for a TD. “It was fourth and long and I saw the back receiver in motion,” Heard said. “We were switching defenses up and we were a little screwed up (formation-wise). But I saw the corner
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The music director of the upcoming 42nd Street Moon presentation of Stephen Sondheim's legendary “A Little Night Music” got his start in Daves Avenue Elementary School productions of “The Pajama Game,” “Guys and Dolls” and “Annie Get Your Gun.” Daniel Thomas, 49, says those early years set him on course for a fulfilling artistic life. “I think that really helped instill my love for the arts,” he said, referring to how students were challenged to expand their skills by instructor Anita Nethercutt. “She insisted that the kids were capable of doing Broadway shows.” Thomas also serves as the executive artistic director for the San Francisco-based 42nd Street Moon, which has committed to producing every single stage show by Sondheim, the composer who counts nine Tony awards and Pulitzer Prize among his accolades and famously wrote the lyrics for “West Side Story.” But Thomas likely never would’ve risen to these heights had he not fallen for the stage at such an early age. “I had a wonderful network of friends and school programs that were really robust—and gave us a lot of opportunities,” he said, noting Nethercutt insisted on mounting the full version of shows. “That’s not the exposure a lot of kids would get.” So, when he began attending Los Gatos High School, he dove further into the arts, joining two different choirs, playing trumpet in the band and French horn in the orchestra. Thomas enjoyed participating in high school productions of Oklahoma, Grease, No, No, Nanette and Anything Goes, but loved the social aspect, too, developing confidence, and learning teamwork and community-building skills. “It’s not just about being able to sing and dance and act,” he said, recalling times when classmates had to overcome obstacles during rehearsals.
“That’s the time when you pull together and you work as a unit.” After high school Thomas attended UC Santa Barbara for music composition and at the beginning of his senior year joined the Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera, a professional theatre company with an impeccable pedigree. He performed with them for four years, while also working full-time as the box office manager. This allowed him to get knee-deep in the weeds of the business side of things, as he looked after ticketing, subscriptions and other front-of-house elements. But he found joy in this, too. “It’s different,” he said. “You’re giving people the space to do what they’re passionate about.” Meanwhile, he got to perform in “Crazy for You,” “My Fair Lady,” “Evita” and “West Side Story.” “I was making a living in the arts,” he said, adding he felt quite fortunate about this fact. “I came out of college and I was able to go right into that.” At that time opportunities in the arts abounded, he remembers. “I never questioned my career path,” he said. “I never worried about what I was going to do next. There were always things to explore.” His next professional adventure? Working as the general manager at Musical Theater West in Long Beach. Thomas even worked at Disneyland, singing in the Dapper Dans barbershop quartet, and playing accordion in the pirate band, in the New Orleans section of the park. He also got to try his hand at musical direction. But after 17 years in the Los Angeles area, Thomas and his pregnant wife were ready to try something else. He scored a job as the director of operations at Los Altos’ Peninsula Symphony in 2014. “It was just kind of serendipitous,” he said. “It was a big year.” But he says, after a year and a half, he couldn’t help but jump at the chance to join the 42nd Street Moon team. Thomas says he appreciated the professional theater company’s original mission of tackling “lost” or “for-
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Former Los Gatos resident reflects on early theater days
LOCAL ROOTS Daniel Thomas, a Los Gatos High alumnus, is the music director of the upcoming 42nd Street Moon presentation of Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music.” gotten” musicals by people like Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and George Gershwin. 42nd Street Moon’s founding director was retiring, so the musical production house was going through a massive change. Thomas was hired as the executive artistic director, while Daren A.C. Carollo was tapped for technical production duties. “When we came in, we recognized that the goalposts had moved,” he said. “They were still focusing on shows mainly from the ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s.” Under Thomas’s leadership, the company shifted its mission—slightly—so the players honored not just the past, but the present and future, too. But he says they still want to make sure there’s an overall cohesive feel to their program. And while Nethercutt passed away in 2011, her influence on Thomas’ life is still apparent—as 42nd Street Moon is planning to put on “The Pajama Game,” his old favorite from Daves Avenue days. “A Little Night Music” is a relic of the 1970s, itself based on an Ingmar Bergman film from the 1950s. 42nd Street Moon’s production runs Nov. 4-21 at Gateway Theatre in San Francisco. “It’s a comedy of manners layered
on top of a sex farce,” he said. “It happens to be one of my favorite shows.” While many people know the musical for its song “Send in the Clowns,” Thomas says he likes the intelligent interplay of textures. “The whole score is very romantic and lush,” he said. “The script is really, really funny.” The audience will get to see characters who discover things about themselves as the drama unfolds. “It’s a story of relationships and all of these interconnected people figuring out their relationships,” Thomas said. “There’s a newlywed lawyer and his former lover who he re-encounters, who happens to be having an affair with a married soldier.” He gleefully describes how, in a nod to the love-triangles, Sondheim scored a bunch of music based on 3/4 time— waltzes, polonaises and mazurkas. Thomas says he loves how he gets to work in a field where both writer, producer and viewer get to experience this complexity brought to life, together. “I think the arts is one of the few industries where both the creators and the end-users get to share in that moment,” he said. “That kind of shared moment is just something you can’t get anywhere else.”
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OCT. 24
• A vehicle was reported stolen on the 600 block of Blossom Hill Road. • Police received reports of trees falling into power lines on Belvue Drive, Bancroft Avenue and Hicks and Wagner roads. • A woman was arrested for trespassing on the 17600 block of Tourney Road at 1:20pm.
OCT. 25
• An unknown suspect entered a job site on Eaton Lane and broke into a locked box trailer. • Police received a report of a man covered with a blanket on the sidewalk on Thurston Street and North Santa Cruz Avenue at 12:35pm. • A person was reported trespassing at Los Gatos High School at 2:53pm.
• A woman was arrested for exhibiting a deadly weapon other than a firearm on the 16100 block of Los Gatos Boulevard at 6:52pm. • A man was arrested for disorderly conduct on the 200 block of Saratoga-Los Gatos Boulevard at 10:40pm.
OCT. 27
• A vehicle was burglarized on Rose Avenue.
• Vehicles were reported burglarized on Bachman Avenue and Winchester Circle.
• A vehicle was stolen on Lark Avenue and Winchester Boulevard.
• Someone stole items from an open garage on Bonnie Lane.
OCT. 26
• Police received a report of a person dumping a five-gallon paint tub into the dumpster. • A bike was reported stolen from a garage on Via Palomino. The suspect vehicle was described as a grey Tesla. • A pickup truck crashed into a building on North Santa Cruz Avenue at 12:40pm. The driver reported back pain. • A man was reported standing near the street at Quito and Saratoga-Los Gatos roads with his hands in the air at 3:19pm. The person reporting the man said he wasn’t “doing anything wrong, but he just doesn’t look right.”
• An unknown suspect siphoned gas out of three vehicles on Del Carlo Court. • A credit card was stolen from a mailbox on East Main Street.
OCT. 28
• A business on Monterey Avenue reported that a resident across the street has very loud motorcycles. • A woman was arrested for disorderly conduct on the 100 block of Ross Creek Court at 3:36pm. Information is compiled from public records released by the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department.
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