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  • BILL MOREM

    Coyote encounter in Los Osos is too close for comfort

    Repeated sightings of mountain lions in the canyons of Cal Poly? A black bear found climbing the craggy flanks of Morro Rock? Goodness, Toto, can tigers be far behind? Maybe, maybe not, but coyotes sure are.

  • SUZANNE DAVIS

    Time for a little gardening

    Ah, springtime — when the green thumbs amongst us conjure up blissful images of bountiful summer harvests. We don our gnarly sun hats, amend last year’s neglected garden plots and make our first foray to the local nursery. The purists buy seeds to nurture, and the rest of us wimps buy...

  • JOETOPIA

    Avila Beach's Tour of California debut was far from Racemageddon

    The 2013 Amgen Tour of California has come and gone, Avila Beach emerged unscathed and Joe Momma’s Coffee can go back to serving its regular customers, having closed in protest to all the rich dudes in spandex invading the town.

  • LON ALLAN

    Not so tech savvy

    For those of you who have followed my evolution over the past 40-plus years, you know that my technical savvy has been virtually static.

  • STEVE PROVOST

    Second Amendment’s wording suggests intentions of its writers

    Militia (n.): a body of citizens enrolled for military service, and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies.

  • PHIL DIRKX

    Signs of warming are growing

    I was watering my tomato plants Wednesday when I noticed blossoms. One plant had two, and the other had two and a bud. It seemed early for tomato blossoms. “Aha’’ I thought, “It must be global warming.”

  • BILL MOREM

    A chance to give back to our vets

    Between 130,000 and 200,000 veterans are homeless on any given night nationwide; 16,500 of those unfortunates live in California; it’s believed that of the 4,000 homeless in San Luis Obispo County, 10 percent are veterans.

  • LON ALLAN

    Piano with a grand history returns to Atascadero church

    One of Atascadero founder E.G. Lewis’ ideas was that the individual denominations of churches get together as one. If they did so, he’d create a building for them. Thus was born the Federated Church of Atascadero. Lewis announced that he had more than 20 denominations of worshipers...

  • JOETOPIA

    Partake in summer fun — cautiously

    It’s not difficult for me to imagine the accident last week that took the life of Christine Allen, the 19-year-old from San Luis Obispo who was camping with her family in Utah when she was killed by a freak rockslide. It’s similarly easy and unpleasant to imagine the accident that...

  • PHIL DIRKX

    Gun safety is important for boys to learn

    A headline in the May 2 Tribune said, “5-year-old shoots sister to death.” A boy had killed his two-year old baby sister in rural, southern Kentucky. It reminded me of the shooting in 1984 west of Paso Robles where a 14-year-old boy shot and killed a 13-year-old boy.

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