BY KYLIE MENDONCA
In Huasna Valley, a rural farming area littered with the remnants of failed or abandoned oil operations, residents have long worried that the oily puddles and open wells ...
BY COLIN RIGLEY
California lawmakers failed to meet a midnight deadline to pass a revised state budget. While the state is without a financial plan to solve a $24 billion deficit, local gover...
BY COLIN RIGLEY
The Los Osos sewer project has a good chance of scoring some much-needed federal funding, if the project ever makes it out of the SLO County Planning Commission.
After one ...
BY COLIN RIGLEY
Maybe some of SLO County’s cemeteries are run too casually, according to a report by the county grand jury. Poor records, decaying gravestones, and even gopher problems ...
New Times of San Luis Obispo won several awards in the 2009 Association of Alternative Newsweeklies’ Altweekly awards contest.
The contest honors the best writing, ph...
BY COLIN RIGLEY
When SunPower, an international solar-power company, began shopping for a new public-relations team to market their SLO County project, they could have picked anyone. Sun...
BY ED CONNOLLY
Don’t think what you read is your own private business, because it’s not: The FBI can take your library records and gag librarians from revealing their visit. At l...
BY JEFF HORNADAY
Summertime is almost here, and we know what that means—time to draw the shutters, crank up the AC, and brace ourselves for the onslaught of seasonal visitors rolling in ...
Roy Mueller, executive director
Thanks to all the contractors, donors, Museum members, board members, staff, and volunteers who contributed to the successful grand opening of the San Luis Obispo Children&rsq...
Bill Denneen
You published an excellent commentary by Emily Thurston (“Remove ‘under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance,” June 25). It disturbs me to say this pledg...
Robert Bettencourt
Astonishing! New Times gives a full page with mega typeface to a high-school freshman (“Remove ‘under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance,” June 25) who...
Norman Mehl
Emily Thurston’s opinion piece (“Remove ‘under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance,” June 25) is one of the best I have read in a long time!
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J.E. Curtis
Emily Thurston’s commentary (“Remove ‘under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance,” June 25) had a very disturbing tone. Here is a high- school inco...
Norman J. Scott
Emily Thurston’s commentary (“Remove ‘under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance,” June 25) was one of the gutsiest and most well-written public es...
Mary Bradley
In regard to Emily Thurston’s June 25 commentary on removing God from the Pledge of Allegiance, I will simply borrow a great patriot’s words:
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Olga Mireles, Margaret Veyna, Yvonne Hill-Printup,
We regretfully inform the community that effective June 26, a substantial cut in the San Luis Obispo County Breastfeeding Clinic occurred. Two out of the three lactation consu...
Sean Shigley
Thanks to M. Power Giacoletti for a well-written letter (“Paso Robles fireworks waste money,” June 25). Gene 6 or 13 has definitely run amok by the looks of most o...
Gina Carmen Turley
I know there are many different types of people in San Luis Obispo, but if the Board of Supervisors represents a majority including the people on the hill by the DeVaul r...
D. Duane Wall II
Senate Republicans just announced they are going to contest U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor on gun- rights issues. The United States just had doctor Geo...
Ray Pezzoli Jr
I’ve never comprehended why Blacks and Hispanics claim America is racist and prejudicial, yet thousands from Central America and the Caribbean still desperately try to e...
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Loyal readers will recall that last year Shred was a touch big headed on learning this column won second place in the national Association of Alternative Newsweeklies contest....
What makes a good story?
BY CHRIS JAGGER
It’s hard to put a price tag on a professional photograph, which can preserve a precious moment for lifetimes. Hiring the right photographer for an event can be str...
BY GLEN STARKEY
More than 20 years ago, Los Osos painter David Kreitzer made a huge splash with his image for the Seattle Opera’s production of Tristan und Isolde. Painted in a way...
BY CHRISTY HERON
New Times Tell me a bit about your background with music and the concert series around SLO County.
Curtis Reinhardt In a nutshell, I’ve been involved with music,...
Art After Dark
July 3, 6 p.m., SLO
Steynberg Gallery: 1531 Monterey, 547-0278. Paintings by Mary Meng Wade.
apRoberts Arts: 570 Higuera #152 (SLO Creamery), 234-...
BY GLEN STARKEY
Sometimes I wonder what it’s like to live a life as storied and tumultuous as Joan Baez. Her bio is as fantastic as it is painful. In many ways, she was one of the ...
In the first installment, he got the girl (Megan Fox) and saved the world. Now Sam Witwicky (Shia LeBeouf) is off to college and hoping to maintain a long-distance relationshi...
BY KATHY MARCKS HARDESTY
If you’ve ever dreamed of making wine, or just helping out at your favorite winery harvesting and crushing grapes in fall, First Crush Winemaking in Paso Robles can...
Here’s another intriguing blend from the talented winemaker, Matthias Gubler. It’s a cuvée of Verdelho, Vermentino, Sauvignon Blanc, and Viognier, all ...
I was surprised by this nicely balanced, fruity wine with its harmonious spice and floral notes. Though not usually a fan of this white variety, which is slightly sweet, ...
It’s the Rat Pack, it’s found money, it is unadulterated sin. And it’s a hell of a good time. The creators of "Razzle Dazzle" and "Best of Hol...
The Central Coast Cycling Classic expands to two days of racing, family fun, and even bigger festivities than previous events. The Central Coast Cycling Classic, (C4), happeni...
A Fresh Face debuts at Art After Dark with local Photographer Travis Holmes on July 3 at 7 p.m. at Monterey St. Wine Co. The collection titled STILL is the first collection fo...
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