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  Waiting for the wizardry: Fans line up for 'Harry Potter' at SLO's Fremont theater

  Hundreds of Harry Potter fans — many in wizard-themed attire — rounded the block outside the Fremont theater in San Luis Obispo on Tuesday in advance of today’s 12:01 a.m. showing of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”

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• South County Beat: Swim program offers low-cost lessons

  A Nipomo High School senior is leading the seventh year of a program that aims to help disadvantaged children learn how to swim.

• SLO County supervisors fire Gail Wilcox over a 'personal relationship'

• Estate Financial must sell Templeton gas station

• Biz Buzz: In-N-Out may be on the way to A.G.

• Atascadero residents will have five chances to talk about Wal-Mart project

• Galaxy Theatres plans to join Atascadero's Colony Square project

• $10 million bail set for Santa Maria hard-money lender Mike Wilson

• County can’t be ‘proactive’ to vector crises

• San Luis Obispo man pleads not guilty in alleged assault of 65-year-old

• SLO County Roundup

• North Coast town loses a beloved son

• Sale of Oceano Dunes land: Grand jury chastises county staff

• Biz Buzz: Unlicensed contractors caught in Cambria sting

• Jim Guthrie re-enters county supervisor race

• Lon Allan: The time is ripe for shaping up Atascadero’s downtown

• County Roundup

• The art of remembrance: AIDS quilt comes to downtown SLO

• Faces of the economy: How the recession is affecting SLO County residents

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Female High School Athlete of the Year Award: Hasay to learn Gatorade award fate today

Tuesday was a bit of a different travel day for Jordan Hasay. Over the past four years she’s equated long-distance car rides as the precursor to weekend meets. The former Mission Prep middle distance racing star has plenty of experience with this routine after traveling up and down the state to race. Like so many times before, Hasay again found herself traveling the California coastline, this time to Los Angeles, but something wasn’t the same. She’s not racing.

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• Blues' King gets key hit in first CCL All-Star Game

Bob Cuddy Bob Cuddy

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• Bob Cuddy: A Congolese choir’s journey to California

• Oceano retiree builds cultural bridge to Armenia

Lon Allen Lon Allen

• Lon Allan: The time is ripe for shaping up Atascadero’s downtown

• Lon Allan: Where the heck are the mailboxes?

• Lon Allan: Kids should chuck the cell phones

Bill Morem Bill Morem

• Bill Morem: Fate seizes a young man in his prime

• Bill Morem: Morro Bay pastor will be missed

• Bill Morem: Feeding the hungry can feed your soul

Phil Dirkx Phil Dirkx

• Phil Dirkx: Moving mountains in California

• Phil Dirkx: Life is woven of a million encounters

• Phil Dirkx: Paso Robles oleanders, who knew?