Cover Story
Education Today
Education issues are a lot like the wheels on the bus: They go round and round, round and round. For this year’s Education Today issue, New Times decided to take the theme literally and look at education. Today. Current school-related issues, however, are reminiscent if not downright retreads of past concerns and discussions. Maybe as…
Oceano shootout leads to hospitalization
An Oceano man was shot in a hail of bullets during an altercation with San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies on August 8 at approximately 7:30 p.m., a witness said. According to the witness, Bonnie Gerwe, the situation started when Chad Berryhill, 19, walked along the 2300 block of Beach Street, screaming and bashing out…
School shorts
There’s more to local education than we could ever hope to print in a 64-page newspaper. There’s more than we could ever hope to print in even a 1,000-page newspaper. Still, our size relative to the task doesn’t stop us from trying. Here are a few brief looks at topics that didn’t get the full…
A Grizzly Experience
The Grizzly Youth Academy is a lot like other high schools. Students between the ages of 16 and 18 both male and female attend class five days a week from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. They join student council, take driver’s education, and participate in intramural sports. They have goals and dreams and battle the…
Developers don’t deserve demonization
Jerry James drew a cartoon in last week’s New Times, regarding the “mind of a developer.” In case you didn’t see it, allow me to describe the illustration: a figure of a brain, divided into quadrants labeled as “the ‘what’s in it for me?’ cortex,” “the hemisphere of profit,” “the lobe of greed,” and “ego…
I don’t need no education
So school is starting. Three cheers and a hiss. Break out the ticker tape and black for mourning. Hooray and boo. Hooray that the little brats running around town with their baggy pants and skateboards will soon have to ditch class and become illegal, arrestable truants if they want to keep running around, getting in…
Letters
We can finally see the yellow linesOn the morning of August 3, around 11:30 a.m., this writer was awestruck to be stopped by a flag man directing traffic into Price Street going north and coming past Pomeroy going south. Congratulations to the Engineering Department of the City of Pismo Beach for finally finding the finances…
Tradition isn’t the only option
Becca Carsel was frustrated, so she founded a school. That statement may have oversimplified the actual process as well as the background, the work, and the other people involved but the sentiment is right on target. # Carsel and her husband, Matthew Chirman, have a daughter who’s now old enough to begin a formal education.…
Marijuana heist leads to arrest
Atascadero police officers arrested Nathanial Woodall, 23, for allegedly forcing his way into a Quail Ridge condominium and pilfering the resident’s medical marijuana on August 6, police said. At around 4 a.m., three masked assailants armed with a baseball bat and a golf club reportedly forced their way into the residence and struck the two…
More scrutiny coming for Dalidio Initiative
Traffic impacts from the proposed Dalidio shopping center development will be the main topic for discussion at a public meeting at the SLO County Courthouse on August 16. Local officials from throughout the county have been invited to the Dalidio Ranch Initiative Committee to study a variety of impacts that may result if county voters…
Fitness with a side of sand
Fitness instructor Calico Hauser says that she doesn’t know anyone who doesn’t like nia. From her young children to 70-something clients who attend Hauser’s weekly nia classes, everybody seems to enjoy the workout that combines movements and techniques from dance, martial arts, and physical therapy. “Nia is a little bit of everything,” Hauser explained. “It’s…
Downtown SLO housing gets green light
A multi-story housing and retail development proposed for Marsh and Nipomo streets has cleared its first hurdle. The city’s Architectural Review Commission approved the design on August 7 for “Paseo del Sol,” a Bermant Homes project including 33 upper-story residences and more than 6,000 square feet of street-level retail. With four stories and an average…
Paso capacity
A drive through south Paso Robles, across the bridge and down Niblick Road, reveals a flowering of new, so-planned-it-hurts housing clusters. Winding streets connect at preconceived junctures, and neighborhoods wrap around allotted open spaces. Freshly paved asphalt rolls thoughtfully through the hills, opening new avenues for ever-gentrifying construction. A few decades ago, folks in old…
Correction
A Morro Bay meeting title and time were incorrectly listed in the previous issue’s cover story, “Sea sick.” According to event organizer Joey Racano, The T.A.B. Meeting or “Talk About the Bay” runs from noon to 5 p.m. on Sept. 2.
Blakeslee faces campaign-contribution questions
It’s not particularly curious for state or federal lawmakers to accept campaign contributions from real-estate developers or construction contractors. In fact, it’s common practice. # In an adequate regulatory climate, the separation between the two entities remains substantial enough to curb potential conflicts of interest. County, municipal, or district officials typically make decisions on development…
Fast facts
A local nonprofit organization, Enhancement Inc., has organized the first Creative Healing Retreat for Breast Cancer Survivors. The retreat will be limited to 20 survivors from San Luis Obispo County and will take place at the Inn at Morro Bay from Sept. 29 through Oct. 1. The purpose of the weekend retreat is to provide…
