The Children's Christmas & Holiday Parade in Los Gatos will result in street closures on Dec. 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., including Santa Cruz Avenue from Highway 9 to Main Street and Main Street from Santa Cruz Avenue to Pleasant Street. Other streets that will be partially closed include Almendra, Bachman, Nicholson, Bean, Tait, Wilder and University avenues. Montebello Way, Village Lane and Victory Lane will also be shut down. No parking will be allowed between 5 a.m. and 3 p.m. along the parade route, on closed streets or in the municipal lot between Bachman and Highway 9.

Council holds hearing about Reservoir Road

A controversial request by the San Jose Water Company to demolish a nonoperating reservoir and subdivide the land into four lots for future developments on Reservoir Road will be considered by the Los Gatos Town Council on Dec. 1. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. in the council chambers, 110 E. Main St.

County residents earn rebates for cleaner gas use

Santa Clara County residents qualify to earn rebates of $300 to $500 by upgrading their wood-burning fireplaces and wood stoves to ones that use cleaner natural gas. For a list of participating dealers, visit www.sparetheair.org or call 415.749.4791.

Town considers extending adopt- a-planter project

So many people signed up to adopt one of the 29 planters along Santa Cruz Avenue that there is now a waiting list. The planting began Nov. 10. Once the project gets fully under way, the town may look at other areas of Los Gatos to extend the adopt-a-planter program, said Mary Gillespie-Greenberg of the parks and public works department. Merchants and individuals weren't the only ones adopting planters; people from the same neighborhoods signed up as groups for the program.