by Susan Stewart | Jul 1, 2021 | Atascadero, Community, Cover story, People, San Luis Obispo
Just 12 days after his graduation from San Luis Obispo High School in 2009, 17-year-old Wes Reid boarded a plane bound for Colorado Springs where he would begin basic training at the celebrated United States Air Force Academy. Today, Reid is an Air Force Captain...
by Deborah Cash | Feb 1, 2021 | Atascadero, Business, Community, Cover story, People, San Luis Obispo, Templeton
Sitting in the corner of his grandfather’s automotive workshop deconstructing engines as a young lad in 1990s Devon, England, little Ben Harvey couldn’t have imagined that, some twenty years later and thousands of miles away from home, he’d be inspired by those...
by Will Jones | Jan 1, 2021 | Community, Cover story, People, San Luis Obispo
Dane Hodgson launched his career as a videographer after graduating from UC Santa Barbara in 2011 with a degree in film and media. For the next several years he traveled the country and the world making promotional videos for a wide variety of customers, with a...
by Deborah Cash | Dec 1, 2020 | Cover story, People
Did you ever sing along to Gordon Lightfoot’s rendition of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” or read Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”? Or watch in horror as Shelly Winters fatally attempted to save the Poseidon or didn’t look away when...
by Will Jones | Nov 1, 2020 | Community, Cover story, People, San Luis Obispo
On a recent visit to her hometown, Dr. Morgan Philbin wrote a Viewpoint article for The Tribune questioning Cal Poly’s plan for safeguarding returning students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Citing statistics from other universities where rates shot up when students...
by Deborah Cash | Oct 1, 2020 | Arroyo Grande, Atascadero, Avila Beach, Cambria, Cayucos, Community, Cover story, Creston, Grover Beach, Los Osos, Morro Bay, Nipomo, Nonprofit, Paso Robles, People, Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo, San Miguel, San Simeon, Santa Margarita, Templeton
A Voter’s Guide to the Elections, Conversing with Tommy Gong, San Luis Obispo County Clerk-Recorder In case you hadn’t noticed, the 2020 election season is flying down the home stretch. While some voters are eagerly awaiting their mail-in ballots (and may have...
