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Los Gatos resident J.C. Carson does public relations for DVD rental company Netflix. The company is in Los Gatos and holds its monthly meetings at the Los Gatos Cinema.
Netflix corners the market on movies by mail
By Gloria I. Wang
Netflix, a little company out of Los Gatos, went public in May with one of the most successful IPOs in recent memory. In just four years, a small but growing team of film buffs has carved out a niche renting DVDs via the mail—and some would say this thriving dot-com is making Blockbuster very nervous.  More
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LGHS pool Sept. 11 Creek trail closes
Thanks to two major contributions, Los Gatos High School is ready to proceed with plans for a new $2.8 million swimming pool that many say will benefit the entire community.  More Los Gatos, which lost three former residents in the terrorist attacks last year, will mark the anniversary of Sept. 11 with a variety of religious and secular events.  More The many joggers who use Los Gatos Creek Trail are in for a disappointment when a nearly one-mile strip of the trail closes Sept. 15.  More
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Skatepark Gold Nugget Award Town Plaza
Before the end of the year, Los Gatos skateboarders may have a place of their own at Blossom Hill Park, and a chain-link fence would be the only additional cost.  More It wasn't the first high-end, high-density development that Los Gatan Bill Hirschman and his Lexor Builders Inc. completed, nor will it be the last.  More Area residents will have reason to celebrate when the Town Plaza reopens Sept. 22, amid music and festivities—and the Los Gatos Food Fest.  More
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Netflix corners the market on movies by mail
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Editorial: Sept. 11, 2002—a time for remembrance

Sparrer: School lunches just aren't quite the same

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Rhododendrons are not that difficult to grow

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Home sale forecast—more of same in 2002

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Realtors held to a higher set of standards

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LG builder claims Gold Nugget Award

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TCBY and Mrs. Fields sweeten Los Gatos

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Gatos opens up against Aragon

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