Judy Salamacha

Jerry May will continue to serve the Cayucos Lions, Cayucos Art Association and Cayucos Seniors after he celebrates his 90th Valentine’s Day birthday this weekend. But he and wife Paula weren’t sure he’d make it to 2012.

Most careers build step-by-step. Author and blogger Anne R. Allen writes in Los Osos. In 2011, her career was like an oil gusher, percolating, even surface bubbling, until her drilling launched the boom spewing black gold.

Remember this name: Taylor Newton.

Volumes of Pleasure Bookshoppe in Los Osos has invited everyone to attend its ninth annual community blessing ceremony by the Cal Poly Lion Dance Team in recognition of Chinese New Year.

Great white-fronted geese were spotted in Los Osos this past October. As were black-legged kittiwake, marbled murrelets, hairy woodpeckers and yellow-headed blackbirds.

As a teenager, Bill Peirce decided Morro Bay would be the determining factor directing his career and lifestyle.

On New Year’s Eve in 1981, Carlin Soulé stood on his porch at The Way Station. He and his wife, Margaret, had moved from San Pedro to serve American cuisine at their Cayucos restaurant. Business didn’t look promising.

The Rev. Harriet B. Linville believes that if you want peace, work for justice, and if you want justice, work for peace.

Just as Al Musso of Cayucos learned retail sales from his family as a child, his daughter, Morro Bay business owner Barbara Musso-Strassel, inherited her artistic father’s need to create.

President John F. Kennedy inspired a generation with his 1961 inaugural quote, “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” Six years ago, Los Osans Richard Margetson and Jerri Walsh asked who besides county government was funding the Maxine Lewis Memorial Shelter in San Luis Obispo.