An A-student, athletic waterpolo student, competitive swimmer, avid hiker, and all-around beach beauty with long blonde hair and golden-copper skin—Summer Mote could be the iconic California girl the Beach Boys sang into history. Summer and her older sister Danielle...

A handful of guests at the dude ranch mount their horses for an afternoon ride. We string out behind Ross Knox (head wrangler) and Colleen Crisman (his assistant), crossing dry creek beds and battling mesquite trees with their inch-long thorns. I’m on a sure-footed...

After three years of playing in the ivy league for Columbia University, former Mission College Prep basketball star Quinton Adlesh has taken his dead-eye outside shooting skills to a big-time college basketball venue in the Pac-12 Conference at the University of...

For a week, Sept. 29 to Oct. 5, the Central Coast played host to 30 surfers, most of whom aren’t normally a part of the local scene. With 15 new participants and 15 returning alumni of the Avila-based Operation Surf program, along with a cast of instructors and...

If life experience is the best teacher, then San Luis Obispo artist Tony Girolo has a Ph.D. to accompany his Masters in Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, America’s oldest art school. A 1999 graduate of San Luis Obispo High School,...

The news item on Oct. 7, 1902, was brief: “F.C. Mitchell, the contractor, has purchased the Murphy block on Osos street between Pismo and Pacific. It is a valuable piece of real estate, and has long been considered a suitable location for ANOTHER (emphasis in...

“...And justice for all." Since first grade, Americans have pledged their allegiance to a country that makes that promise. Yet, as our history and current evidence show, justice is not always meted out fairly, and all too often, not at all. In a news cycle dominated...

Cynthia Anthony is a natural-born actress, the Founder of Wine Country Theatre, whose demeanor exudes the essence of those who are perfectly at home on the stage, wasn’t acting, however, when she enthusiastically described the genesis and current success of her young...

Glassy-eyed from the anesthesia, and with a barely audible voice, Ryan Teixeira woke up from a seven-hour surgery and said, “I know what we’re going to do.” His parents, Steve and Holly, paid rapt attention as their 18-year-old son described his vision for a new...