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An additional duo of San Luis Obispo County prep stars poised for possibly dominant senior years are also enjoying successful summers. Atascadero basketball standout Troy Norris has spent the past week in Las Vegas playing at the adidas Super 64 AAU tournament for Organized Chaos, a 17-and-under San Joaquin Valley-based club. ...

Fearless, flamboyant and famous Harriet Quimby was the first American woman to be licensed as a pilot. True. She was the first person to be licensed to fly a monoplane and the first woman to fly across the English Channel. True. Her daring aerial feats inspired a young Amelia Earhart, and both would later ...

Arroyo Grande is embarking on a year long celebration of city-hood. The town incorporated July 10, 1911 but it was a rocky start. It is unclear from the front page July 11, 1911 article in The Telegram if the incorporation had significant opposition or if the editor was just confused ...

Last year at about this time, we posted a Top 10 list of the best prep teams from San Luis Obispo County for 2008-09. Now that some time has passed and given a chance to reflect on 2009-10, I was wondering if you all would like to put together Top ...

Fresh on the heels of attention-grabbing offseasons that have been enjoyed by a few other San Luis Obispo County prep football players (see the previous post), Arroyo Grande High junior-to-be kicker Garrett Owens is also receiving high praise, to put it mildly. The 5-foot-9, 165-pound Owens is ranked at ChrisSailerKicking.com as ...

A pair of San Luis Obispo County prep football standouts have recently generated online college recruiting chatter on statewide and even nationwide levels. Leading the pack is Templeton High’s Tyler Gray, a 6-foot-3, 215-pound linebacker entering his senior year. Gray is currently rated as a three-star prospect by Rivals.com, which ranks ...

In case you missed it, last week we named Paso Robles High senior shortstop and pitcher Thomas Bernal as The Tribune’s San Luis Obispo County Baseball Player of the Year. Sorry for the delay in posting here, as I was on my first vacation of the year. From the complete ...

Today, we named Atascadero High junior right-handed pitcher Jill Johnson as The Tribune’s San Luis Obispo County Softball Player of the Year. As for the all-county baseball team, it’s completed and tentatively slated to run in the immediately near future, likely within the week, depending on news flow on given ...

Two former San Luis Obispo County prep stars, both of them 2006 grads, were selected in this week’s Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Matt Drummond, a former Paso Robles standout now a redshirt junior pitcher at UCLA, was chosen in the 20th round by the Baltimore Orioles. Cal State Bakersfield senior ...

The PAC 7 released its all-league teams for baseball, softball and boys volleyball on Friday. I’ve transcribed them below. (As I’ve stated before here, we run all of the all-league teams at once in print, once we have them all — so after we receive the pending Los Padres and ...