by Joe Carotenuti | Sep 1, 2018 | History, San Luis Obispo
The major civic ancestor for San Luis Obispo—both county and city—was born on September 1, 1772. In a hastily conducted ceremony, Fra Junipero Serra intonated the ritual es- tablishing the fifth outpost in the spiritual “conquest” of Alta California. Understandably...
by Bruce Badrigian | Sep 1, 2018 | Community, History, Los Osos, Morro Bay, People
When I was in my mid-20s, my brother Wayne and I often joined our friends at the Hofbrau restaurant on the Embarcadero in Morro Bay. Looking out on the calm bay with pelicans gliding by overhead and the moored boats pointing out the direction of the swelling tide, we...
by Heather Young | Sep 1, 2018 | Atascadero, Business, Community, People
Manuel Barba opened Traffic Records in downtown Atascadero in March of this year with his partner Dawn Neill because of his love of music. “I didn’t think I’d be opening a record store at all,” Barba said. “I just knew I’d do something with music. When the location in...
by Aprll Charlton | Sep 1, 2018 | Business, Community, People, San Luis Obispo
Pediatrician Dr. Rene Bravo doesn’t exaggerate when he says during the course of his 30-plus-year career that has been spent entirely in San Luis Obispo he has easily treated 100,000 local youth. He does joke, though, he and his wife, Debra, of 38 years, have to...
by Charmaine Coimbra | Sep 1, 2018 | Arroyo Grande, Avila Beach, Cambria, Cayucos, Community, Grover Beach, Los Osos, Morro Bay, Nipomo, Nonprofit, Pismo Beach, San Simeon, Santa Margarita
Sullie, an aging gull, is distressed and angry about the trash left by people on the beach. Sullie’s granddaughter was permanently crippled after her entanglement in plastic waste— or so goes the story, “Sullie Saves the Sea,” a children’s book by ocean activist...
by Camas Frank | Sep 1, 2018 | Business, Community, People, San Simeon
In February last year, a landslide led to the failure of the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge and closed Highway 1. In May, 36 miles to the north, more than 5 million cubic yards of dirt and rock dwarfed earlier slides, covering a quarter mile of tarmac at Mud Creek. With lots...
