BY MATT FOUNTAIN
When the City of Arroyo Grande installed surveillance cameras in strategic locations throughout its historic Village District in January, the decision stirred controversy from...
BY RYAN MILLER
New Times, and its sister paper the Sun, occasionally enter contests—not, you know, for bragging rights or anything, but it’s fun to see how our papers hold up. We like to...
BY MAEVA CONSIDINE
Cal Poly athletes are banding together, but not to throw points up on the board.
Effective the fall quarter of next year, Cal Poly club sports will be losing state funding. W...
BY COLIN RIGLEY
Arroyo Grande is moving forward with its proposal to woo Grover Beach.
On May 8, the Arroyo Grande City Council unanimously approved a plan for consolidating the city’s Pol...
The system may be a little messy, but according to San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Jim Patterson, it works.
Patterson was, of course, referring to a proposed truancy ordina...
BY NICK POWELL
Anyone seeking a sweet city job with top benefits had better submit an application and hope for a thumbs up from Atascadero managers before July 12.
Employees hired after tha...
BY NICK POWELL
On May 1, Paso Robles provided the city’s official response to a San Luis Obispo County Grand Jury report that analyzed vacation accrual policies and practices in municipali...
• The write-up for the Edge Fitness Studio, Best New Company of 2011, included the wrong city. The Edge is at 271 Five Cities Drive, Pismo Beach.
• The write up for the P...
BY MATT FOUNTAIN
A new community-based radio station only a few months in the making is ready to showcase the diversity of the North Coast, and has taken to the Web while the brains behind it ...
BY COLIN RIGLEY
The engine of Sophie Treder’s Ford F350 screamed and groaned as she floored it up a steep, pockmarked dirt road winding behind Mankin’s Ranch in Huasna Valley.
Treder, ...
BY CHRIS WHITE-SANBORN
Creativity is one of the most vital tools in a person’s arsenal. After all, you don’t escape from Alcatraz without taking the crap you have lying around and making it into...
BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE SIERRA CLUB'S SANTA LUCIA CHAPTER
The late Peter Douglas, executive director of the California Coastal Commission, gave a speech titled “Environmental Politics on Uncommon Ground” at a 2002 meeting of the ...
Laura Wazowski
I have read your paper every week ever since I moved to the area five years ago and have really enjoyed the new voices that have recently joined your writing team. But today w...
James Scott
I read Glen Starkey’s column (“A very big week!” May 3) a couple of times through, and there it was; I really couldn’t understand such a mistake coming from the otherw...
William Fritch
In the arts section of the May 3 New Times, Glen Starkey tells us that Lindsey Buckingham is a founding member of Fleetwood Mac. Oh, really? The original members of that band ...
Michael Sullivan
Regarding “The challenger” (an interview with Ed Waage, 3rd District county supervisor candidate) by Matt Fountain (April 26):
Candidate Ed Waage appears disingenuous whe...
Neal Maloney
I have operated and owned Morro Bay Oyster Company for eight years. Within the last two years, I have been fortunate to connect with the Morro Bay Tourism Business Improvement...
Dan Glesmann
Morro Bay residents, didn’t you find it odd that three of the candidates had their literature delivered to your door as a set? What is this group’s agenda? The key questio...
Richard Mullikin
I see our state officials have come up with another scheme to get money instead of doing their job by fixing the existing waste in government. This comes in the form of Propos...
Terry Mohan
According to KSBY news (“Skateboarding not allowed in bike lanes in San Luis Obispo,” April 30), a skateboarder was fined $203 for riding his skateboard in SLO town, in th...
Carol De Hart
We must not continue our presence in Afghanistan, where we are resented and unwelcome. We must no longer use force in this country.
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As an early Mother’s Day gift to myself, I splurged and bought myself a match.com profile. Now, I know what you’re thinking: Mother’s Day presents are traditionally for,...
If you could be any monster, what would you be?
BY JACK JOHNSON
According to Scott Callisch, owner of the Flip Flop Shop in San Luis Obispo, flip-flops are more than just a way to free your toes from confinement.
“Flip-flops are really ...
BY RYAN MILLER
Teddy Roosevelt stands, one hand tucked behind him, on Glacier Point, his almost archetypal frame—mustachioed and bespectacled, well dressed but still undeniably rugged, sol...
BY DAVID YRIARTE
On any regular day at Cal Poly, the bleachers of the University Union plaza are packed with people wearing padded, noise-canceling headphones—and the evening of Saturday, Ma...
BY ANNA WELTNER
A surprising number of successful artists began their careers in the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art’s High School Art Portfolio Competition.
Locals such as Tony Girolo—now...
BY GLEN STARKEY
I loved model planes as a kid, lovingly building and painting them, then filling them with firecrackers and blowing them up. Ah, the sweet scent of burning plastic and model g...
BY GLEN STARKEY
Are you ready, San Luis Obispo? Are you ready for Public Defendaz to drop their long awaited album on you? Because ready or not, it’s finally here. Titled Drawn2Gether, the ...
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In perhaps the most anticipated comic book-based movie release since The Dark Knight, writer-director Joss Whedon (Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) directs Robert Downey, Jr...
BY KATHY MARCKS HARDESTY
Imagine dining alfresco beside the man or woman who grew and hand-harvested the delightful fruits and vegetables on your plate, the person who personally raised the beef or la...
I’m a big fan of this great, family-operated winery in rural Arroyo Grande Valley, which consistently produces exceptional Pinots. Burgundian in style, its alluring aromas o...
I reviewed this classic white early this year, but brought it back because it’s on sale at Talley’s tasting room for $12.80 a bottle. That’s a great deal for this ...
Chug! Chug! Chug! No … wait. Chugga! Chugga! Chugga! On May 12, families are invited to embark from the Station Grill in Grover Beach at 11:30 a.m. for a scenic trip to the ...
Joyce Wycoff walks through life with a camera in hand waiting for little moments to call her name. Then, she captures those images, rips them to pieces, and runs them through ...
History literally flies into town May 16 with the “Wings of Freedom Tour.” Three fully functioning aircraft from the World War II era will land at San Luis Coastal Regiona...
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