Audio by Marcus Cocova On and off for four years, 70-year-old Kevin Miller would stay with 20 to 30 others at an encampment near Morro Creek, living off small amounts of social security, services and some work on the side. Last week, an excavator cleared through that encampment. A Texas-based energy company, Vistra Corp., owns […]
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Los Osos 14-Year-Old lasers to create her crafts
By age five she was knitting. Now, at age 14, she is crafting with a laser cutter. For Los Osos student and crafter Zoë Hendricks, creativity comes quite naturally. Hendricks maintains straight A’s in all of her classes, while also taking on the pseudonym @lasercraft_lososos on Instagram. Through social media platforms, Hendricks takes and fulfills […]
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Fridays Around Town
A man stands under a beating sun to shine shoes in an attempt to provide a stable home for his daughter, another rides around town in search of those in need of a warm meal, an English teacher worries for her students as they prepare to enter a world plagued by a pandemic. These are […]
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Out with the new and in with the old: former professor reconnects with film photography
On Fridays, reporter Marcus Cocova explored downtown San Luis Obispo to see who he would meet. Each day, Mustang News will release a story about one of the locals he met on a Friday. The new cannot quite perfectly replace the old. This is at least the case for Dara Rosenwasser and her cameras. The […]
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Learn how this couple kept it together from high school to college
On Fridays, reporter Marcus Cocova explored downtown San Luis Obispo to see who he would meet. Each day, Mustang News will release a story about one of the locals he met on a Friday. The transition into college from high school can be abrupt and unsettling. Alvin Tran and Tiffany Zhu rely on each other […]
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“I have five screens going at once”: local English teacher navigates online learning
On Fridays, reporter Marcus Cocova explored downtown San Luis Obispo to see who he would meet. Each day, Mustang News will release a story about one of the locals he met on a Friday. Among the many titles that line the walls of San Luis Obispo’s Phoenix Books, bookworm Danica Wassmann searches for her next […]
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Three musicians find inspiration in downtown San Luis Obispo
On Fridays, reporter Marcus Cocova explored downtown San Luis Obispo to see who he would meet. Each day, Mustang News will release a story about one of the locals he met on a Friday. Months after leaving the United States Air Force, Isaiah Robinson could not wait to be more involved in making music. He […]
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Group seeks to support houseless community out of their VW van
On Fridays, reporter Marcus Cocova explored downtown San Luis Obispo to see who he would meet. Each day, Mustang News will release a story about one of the locals he met on a Friday. With its doors wide open and ready to offer refuge, Andrew Anderson’s green VW van is often made available to those […]
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Getting to know a local grandmother over coffee
On Fridays, reporter Marcus Cocova explored downtown San Luis Obispo to see who he would meet. Each day, Mustang News will release a story about one of the locals he met on a Friday. Under the garden green canopy of Linnaea’s Café, Angi Mullery sipped her morning coffee while waiting on an oil change at […]
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Meet the local shining shoes to support his daughter
On Fridays, reporter Marcus Cocova explored downtown San Luis Obispo to see who he would meet. Each day, Mustang News will release a story about one of the locals he met on a Friday. Adrian Spears spends nearly eight hours a day shining shoes to earn enough money to provide himself with the makings of […]
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Meet Doug Shaw, owner of a local cigar lounge
On Fridays, reporter Marcus Cocova explored downtown San Luis Obispo to see who he would meet. Each day, Mustang News will release a story about one of the locals he met on a Friday. Through the haze of cloudy cigar and pipe smoke at San Luis Obispo’s Sanctuary Tobacco shop, visitors might find owner Doug […]