When Katy Smith tells people she’s going painting in Orcutt, she gets puzzled looks in return. “They’re like, ‘Where do you paint in Orcutt?’ As if there’s not something here to paint,” Smith said. “There are so many beautiful places in Orcutt to paint, and you just have to stop long enough and take it […]
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California Sauna Club brings a heated trailer and cold plunging to San Luis Obispo and Morro Bay
FEATURE I despise cold, overcast days, but peeping out at gray San Luis Obispo farmland through the half-moon window of California Sauna Club’s heated barrel trailer softened the gloom. The experience, tucked behind Froom Ranch Way marketplace, is from the minds and hands of couple Darren and Arielle Leva. The former Bay Area residents opened […]
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Local nonprofit boosts environmental education for underserved high school students
FEATURE Folks at the Morro Coast Audubon Society like to say that protecting birds means protecting the entire ecosystem. Torrey Gage-Tomlinson, the organization’s program director, believes it wholeheartedly. The concept was a continuation of his early memories traveling across Latin America to go bird watching with his parents. “It was a really unique childhood, and […]