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Funding reductions in 2001 prompted the school district to close Sunnyside, Morro Elementary School, and its Grand Avenu...
10/09/2025

Funding reductions in 2001 prompted the school district to close Sunnyside, Morro Elementary School, and its Grand Avenue site in San Luis Obispo that now hosts Teach Elementary and a beauty school.

Closed since 2001, Los Osos’s Sunnyside School is the latest campus that residents are hoping can be converted to boost outdoor recreation access. “I’ve lived in Los Osos for a very long time. With my young family back in the ’90s and early 2000s, we used the school a lot for playing soccer ...

For multiple years, visitors have expressed concern over the Malayan tiger named Menderu at the Central Coast Zoo. Forme...
10/08/2025

For multiple years, visitors have expressed concern over the Malayan tiger named Menderu at the Central Coast Zoo. Formerly known as the Charles Paddock Zoo, the facility spent 16 years caring for the tiger before he passed in July.

Connie Jansen couldn’t help but notice the tiger at Atascadero’s Central Coast Zoo. For 45 minutes this past summer, she said she watched him pace in his enclosure and cry out. She questioned whether he was severely depressed. “I just don’t know that he was getting the care he needed,” Jan...

Grab your last gasp of summer fun when Good Vibes and Otter Productions host the Rebelution Good Vibes Cali Tour over tw...
10/07/2025

Grab your last gasp of summer fun when Good Vibes and Otter Productions host the Rebelution Good Vibes Cali Tour over two nights at Avila Beach Golf Resort on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 8 and 10 (doors at 4 p.m., show at 5; all ages; general admission starting at $76.85 at tixr.com). The event also features Pepper, The Elovaters, Aurorawave, and DJ Mackle.

It’s been more than 20 years since a quintet of UCSB students joined forces in Isla Vista to become Rebelution. Throughout 2004 and 2005, they grew their fanbase playing local shows and releasing an independent EP. By 2007, they released Courage to Grow, their full-length debut, which almost immed...

One summer afternoon, a Pismo Beach resident noticed their Pride flag was mysteriously missing from the front of their h...
10/06/2025

One summer afternoon, a Pismo Beach resident noticed their Pride flag was mysteriously missing from the front of their home. Security footage revealed that a young man had come onto their property, grabbed the rainbow flag that hung near their kitchen window, tore it, and threw it in a trash can just off the side of their house.

One summer afternoon, a Pismo Beach resident noticed their Pride flag was mysteriously missing from the front of their home. Security footage revealed that a young man had come onto their property, grabbed the rainbow flag that hung near their kitchen window, tore it, and threw it in a trash can jus...

More than a thousand people stood with fists in the air chanting “I am Charlie Kirk!” at a memorial for the right-wing p...
10/04/2025

More than a thousand people stood with fists in the air chanting “I am Charlie Kirk!” at a memorial for the right-wing political activist at Cal Poly on Sept. 29.

More than a thousand people stood with fists in the air chanting “I am Charlie Kirk!” at a memorial for the right-wing political activist at Cal Poly on Monday night. Hoots erupted after San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow took the podium at the event, held at the Cal Poly Performin...

For oyster aficionados, multiple experiences beckon in Morro Bay, one of only six production sites in the Golden State.K...
10/02/2025

For oyster aficionados, multiple experiences beckon in Morro Bay, one of only six production sites in the Golden State.

Kayak the calm waters of the bay for an immersive adventure with Central Coast Outdoors or enjoy wine pairings with the tasty mollusks ashore at Absolution Cellars.

Morro Bay is your oyster: Oyster adventures feature the bivalve farmed in Central Coast waters

"Magical” and “otherworldly” best describe the sensation experienced when entering fiber artist Trish Anderson’s San Lui...
10/01/2025

"Magical” and “otherworldly” best describe the sensation experienced when entering fiber artist Trish Anderson’s San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA) installation Little by Little. Made up of 35 miles of yarn and 35,000 knots, the immersive artwork takes up the museum’s entire Gray Wing, with 100 circular ceiling-mounted elements and 100 floor elements. If you want to experience it, you best hurry. It departs the museum after Saturday, Oct. 4.

Experience it before it’s goneFiber artist Trish Anderson’s installation, Little by Little, at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA), leaves on Oct. 4. The museum is located at 1010 Broad St., admission is free, and the hours are Thursday through Monday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more inform...

Even if the legalities between Paso Robles and The Tribune are technically settled, tension still loomed in council cham...
09/29/2025

Even if the legalities between Paso Robles and The Tribune are technically settled, tension still loomed in council chambers with Mayor John Hamon suggesting a recall of Councilmember Chris Bausch.

Even if the legalities between Paso Robles and The Tribune are technically settled, tension still loomed in council chambers with Mayor John Hamon suggesting a recall of Councilmember Chris Bausch. “Public officials are entrusted to act with integrity, good sense, and respect for the office they h...

El Camino Homeless Organization has done away with its nightly stays and now only offers a 90-day shelter program for th...
09/27/2025

El Camino Homeless Organization has done away with its nightly stays and now only offers a 90-day shelter program for those in north San Luis Obispo County.

El Camino Homeless Organization has done away with its nightly stays and now only offers a 90-day shelter program for those in north San Luis Obispo County. The nonprofit’s operators say they’ve found that three months of secure shelter gives residents a higher chance of finding permanent housin...

Autumn landed with a show in San Luis Obispo County. Lighting! Thunder! Rain! And we’re here for it, ready to equip you ...
09/25/2025

Autumn landed with a show in San Luis Obispo County. Lighting! Thunder! Rain! And we’re here for it, ready to equip you with the calendar of events you didn’t know you needed.

Autumn landed with a show in San Luis Obispo County. Lighting! Thunder! Rain! And we’re here for it, ready to equip you with the calendar of events you didn’t know you needed. In our annual Autumn Arts issue, Calendar Editor Angie Stevens pulled together succulent and pumpkin workshops, concerts...

After more than five years of effort, construction for the Cambria skate park is ready to go out for bid—but only after ...
09/24/2025

After more than five years of effort, construction for the Cambria skate park is ready to go out for bid—but only after the county says so and the winter weather dries up.

After more than five years of effort, construction for the Cambria skate park is ready to go out for bid—but only after the county says so and the winter weather dries up. This is what Cambria Community Services District (CSD) Manager Matthew McElhenie said at a meeting on Sept. 11 as the CSD boar...

Character actor Michael Richards graces the Fremont Theater stage on Thursday, Sept. 25, in Entrances and Exits: An Even...
09/23/2025

Character actor Michael Richards graces the Fremont Theater stage on Thursday, Sept. 25, in Entrances and Exits: An Evening of Conversations, Questions, and Answers (doors at 7 p.m.; event at 8; all ages; $39.11 to $75.68 at prekindle.com). He’ll talk about his life and career and field audience questions.

The ‘eccentricity specialist’: Meet the human being behind the Cosmo Kramer character in Entrances and Exits: An Evening of Conversations, Questions, and Answers

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