by Bruce Badrigian | Nov 1, 2019 | Business, Community, Food, Morro Bay, People
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...
by Heather Young | Nov 1, 2019 | Community, People, San Luis Obispo, Sports
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...
by Camas Frank | Nov 1, 2019 | Avila Beach, Community, Nonprofit
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...
by Will Jones | Nov 1, 2019 | Community, Morro Bay, People, San Luis Obispo
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,...
by Joe Carotenuti | Nov 1, 2019 | Community, History, People, San Luis Obispo
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...
by Susan Stewart | Nov 1, 2019 | Community, Nonprofit, People, San Luis Obispo
“…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...
