Photo by Mike Baird:    Young Herons

Photo by Steve Corey:           Ladybug Sipping Morning Dew

Photo by Mike Baird:         Sailing Near Morro Rock

As Seen From My Couch by Sandra Beebe

I was concerned that the summer doldrums had set in at the City Council meetings and this month's column would have to be as workaday as July's was. Color me wrong.  The cast of characters that make up the Morro Bay citizenry did not let me down. Read More

Behind the Badge by Richard Hannibal

It's 11 o'clock at night and you have just drifted off to the wonderful pre-REM sleep. You are on the verge of dreaming about things that please you most when you become vaguely aware of an audible irritant. You revert back to that twilight zone between sleep and wakefulness and realize it is the barking of the dog next door. You toss, turn, and pull the pillow up over your head. It doesn't help. It's now 12:30 a.m. You become angry, get out of bed, and rush to the nearby open window. In the process you hit your foot on the nightstand and, enduring the pain, you scream out into the dark void, "SHUT UP!"   Read More

Community Calendar

Want to get out and have some fun? Find out what's going on. Read More

County & Town Contacts

Get in touch with Chambers of Commerce, city officials, fire and police departments, and state representatives. Who You Gonna Call?

Morro Bay Library

Two local authors—one will delve into creativity and the other into the significant changes taking place in book publishing—are scheduled to appear and discuss their works to highlight book discussions programs for September, presented by the Morro Bay Friends of the Library in the Program Room of the Library, 625 Harbor Street.  Read More   (Seriously - read more. Words serve as brain aerobics.)

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