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Introduction All too often too many news stories make headlines and then disappear, unless some event brings them back into the limelight. Most stories have tales to tell while they await a hopeful conclusion. We have gathered several major and minor stories we have reported on within the last year and wanted to bring them…
And the dish ran away with the spoon
In a small courtroom last week at the County Annex on Monterey Street, the Central Coast’s bizarre trial of the year quietly took a new turn. The three co-defendants discussed plea-bargaining offers with their attorneys, and two stepped to the plate, bringing two thirds of the Strip-o-gram case to an unceremonious conclusion. Private dancer Maureen…
Box store battle
It was one hell of a city council meeting Tuesday night in Atascadero. Opponents of Wal-Mart waged a battle against city staff and firefighters over a proposed Superstore at the intersection of El Camino Real and Del Rio Road. Approximately 550 citizens attended the special meeting held to discuss rezoning portions of the project from…
Coming clean
After completing their degrees at Cal Poly, Nathan Miller and Ryan Bianchi were faced with a question not uncommon for local grads: how to how to find a job that can support a good lifestyle on the central coast. Miller recalls, “We wanted to stay here, but were not sure how to.â€? Miller and Bianchi…
Good times for New Times
The New Times alternative weekly newspaper will remain a local enterprise. In a San Luis Obispo probate hearing May 26, Judge Martin Tangeman ruled that management currently operating the paper could move forward with their offer to purchase both the New Times in SLO and part of the Sun in Santa Maria. Ownership of the…
Dark Ages indeed
Summer’s practically over, and I have nothing to show for it. Not even skin cancer. Oh sure, some of you are just now finally shaking those last few drops of Lake Nacimiento out of your ears from your drunken Memorial Day boat outings, but before you know it, the Fourth’s fireworks will have fizzled, August…
What Measure G means to Cuesta’s art programs
Apparently leaky roofs and rickety building structures don’t make for a satisfying educational experience. And, if Cuesta instructors are to be believed, creating inspired and visionary works of art in a run-down former chapel is challenging, to say the least. For instructors and students at Cuesta College artistic vision may be more easily, and safely,…
FAST FACTS
Every year, the American Cancer Society holds the “Relay for Lifeâ€? to raise money for cancer research and support programs. To participate, volunteers form groups comprised of friends, family and coworkers to walk around a track for 24 hours without stopping in an effort to raise money and awareness. Often groups invent creative ways to…
A gamble pays off
Joleen Fanton-Fahmy clasped her hands and let out an audible sigh of relief Tuesday morning as a Superior Court judge struck down an alleged backdoor criminal warrant filed against her husband by the Department of Homeland Security. For almost three hours, the Morro Bay woman—married to # Egyptian national Ahmed Fahmy for the past 11…
I can’t get no satisfaction
Last Saturday, a scant few blocks from where Poseidon played on the big screen, a local disaster/romance epic launched at Downtown Brewing Company. KCPR, Cal Poly’s independent radio station, saw its own fund-raising “Garden Party” festival struggle to breathe after the school’s sudden cancellation, but persevered to host a full day of alternative music. You…
Letters
Memorial mourning People call Memorial Day a “Holiday,â€? so they get out their big gas- guzzling vehicles, and their huge gas-eating boats, or their trailers full of gas using toys to tear up the dunes or the National Forest, or they pull out the BBQ and gorge themselves. Memorial Day is a day of mourning for…
