BY COLIN RIGLEY
Here’s the cliché tally for the first appeal hearing on Excelaron’s proposed drilling operation in the Huasna Valley:
• Standing room only.
• Property rights of t...
BY NICK POWELL
Paso Robles Mayor Duane Picanco and Councilman Fred Strong will chair an ad hoc committee tasked with passing an ordinance that would regulate massage parlors and help put an ...
BY MATT FOUNTAIN
The May 7 Grover Beach City Council meeting was a sobering event for city leaders, staff, and residents alike, as city staffers presented the most recent draft of the budget f...
BY MATT FOUNTAIN
When the city of San Luis Obispo began to wage its war against late-night alcohol-related problems three years ago, restaurant and bar owners said they were needlessly being t...
BY COLIN RIGLEY
Nipomo residents have given their two cents on a proposal to tap into a new water supply from Santa Maria. Actually, they gave a lot more than two cents, most of it opposing t...
In the article “Paso dismisses Grand Jury critique” (May 10), City Manager Jim App’s actions were misstated. He disputed the Grand Jury’s findings and outlined the Gra...
BY GLEN STARKEY
The excitement is palpable among the gathering throng of about 100, who wait anxiously for a crane to arrive and place Nick Del Giorgio’s catamaran in the water for the very...
BY ASHLEY SCHWELLENBACH
None of this surprises me,” the raspy and deeply masculine voice intones. “Technology got stronger, but we got weaker.”
Sgt. Frank Woods of the U.S. Marine Corps conclu...
BY CHRIS WHITE-SANBORN
Popcorn munching.* They’ve come from all over the country! ... They’ve come from all over the WORLD! ... And NOW they’ve come for ... their COMMENCEMENT! *A woman scream...
BY DAVE CONGALTON
This has been an interesting year at KVEC radio, and we’re not even halfway through 2012. I marked my 20th anniversary with the station in January, followed by that little f...
Kathy Ryan
I am offended by Dan Glessman’s letter (“Bring in leaders who’ll continue local control,” May 10) suggesting I can’t make up my own mind just because I received thre...
Travis Ford
Recently I read a letter-to-the-editor from Dan in Morro Bay (“Bring in leaders who’ll continue local control,” May 10) ... and was downright confused. He threw out a lo...
Dawn Addis
I am writing this letter on behalf of Christine Johnson, candidate for Morro Bay City Council. I have known Christine as community volunteer, parent, neighbor, and friend.
C...
Anne Reeves
Despite a 35-year-old relationship with Morro Bay, I am still considered an outsider by some. It was that long ago, however, that I persuaded my less than year old granddaught...
Sheila Blake
So now I go to my mailbox and find the latest example of misdirected energy and expenditure for the 3rd district. Who or what has the money and time to print a two-sided, colo...
Karen Bright
Adam Hill is a forward-thinking, serious, equitable, and accessible county supervisor.
As a resident of SLO County and a councilmember for the city of Grover Beach, I am very...
Janet Taylor
I have the skinny on a guy that’s been in the news lately. I know him really well. He’s been my neighbor for years—right next door.
He’s Ed Waage.
He’s a stand-up ...
Melinda Forbes
I have known Jim Patterson for many years. When my husband and I bought our home in Garden Farms almost 30 years ago, his Bay Laurel Nursery supplied many of the fruit trees a...
Otis Page
There are a number of legal cases winding their way toward federal courts that address the issue of whether the equal protection clause of the Constitution guarantees gay men ...
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I’ll never forget the thrill of my first encounter with Max and the events that occurred on the night he wore his wolf suit “and made mischief of one kind and another.” ...
What is the worst or most interesting experience you’ve had with an animal?
BY ANA KORGAN
If you harbor a burning ambition to make Katy Perry’s supposed fireworks look like sparklers or the ring Beyonce encouraged men to put “on it” look like crackerjack blin...
BY NICK POWELL
This weekend, I discovered a place with no walls or ceilings, where the only source of light was a warm and wacky ball of fire that seemed to float inside some kind of blue, s...
BY ANNA WELTNER
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Bed sheets are for dreams; bed sheets are for death. Bed sheets are for tossing, rumpling, wrinkling, loving, crying, and staining.
They are a cocoon, a nest, and a shroud. A...
BY ANNA WELTNER
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The Botanical Engineers has a uniquely cartoony feel to it. It’s the kind of play where a newbie CIA agent and his overbearing boss are liable to erupt into song and begin t...
BY ANNA WELTNER
Twenty-five years ago, New Times founder Steve Moss dreamed up a short story competition that would make James Joyce salivate. He challenged readers to tell a tale of love, mu...
BY ANNA WELTNER
“If the full moon ride and Art After Dark had a baby, they would name it Velonotte,” claim the organizers of an upcoming new bicycle, architecture, and art experience in...
BY GLEN STARKEY
You’ve got less than a month to get your tickets, arrange a pet sitter, find someone to water your plants, and dig out the camping gear for the best music weekend on the Cen...
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The late-’60s to early-’70s maudlin gothic soap opera Dark Shadows gets the Tim Burton treatment in this comedy-fantasy revolving around an imprisoned vampire named Barnab...
BY KATHY MARCKS HARDESTY
It’s finally come to the point where we have so many events every month, they’re taking place on the same dates and stepping on each other’s ticket sales. While th...
This remarkable Rhone red is a blend of Mourvedre grown in two vineyards: La Vista in Paso Robles and the Santa Barbara Highlands in eastern Santa Barbara County. Deeply hued ...
Although I prefer wine over most adult beverages, I found this delightful draft outstanding. Admittedly, it surprised me since I don’t like Guinness. This dark, chocolate-co...
Art walks are awfully slow, and bike riding hardly ever features art—until now. Velonotte is the best of both worlds: an art and architecture adventure made by local artists...
Wine tasting generally requires a lot of driving, which doesn’t mix well with alcohol and kind of ruins the whole point. Thirty years ago, Paso Robles found a simple solutio...
Paso Robles sure likes festivals. It must have something to do with that City Park of theirs and the way that it’s perfect for such things. Anyway, here’s another one: The...
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