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The Leaning Pine Arboretum at Cal Poly is up for renovations thanks to a recent $1 million donation, Cal Poly officials announced Monday.

saranacbo@hotmail.com Last week’s column, about the chopping down of Paul Smith’s College’s major landmark and school logo, the Leaning Pine, had some inaccuracies in it. I said that because the college prez, Dr. Buxton, hated everything about the state, he wouldn’t have had the miscreant arrested, but would’ve punished him with instant expulsion. On that count, I was two-thirds wrong and one-third right. First, there wasn’t one miscreant, but two. And second, one of them was arrested, and both of them settled the issue by paying the college $2,500. (And just for perspective: I...

saranacbo@hotmail.com “THE LEANING PINE — A landmark in hotel days, and now the symbol of Paul Smith’s College,” reads the original caption for this photo in the college’s St. Regian yearbook, dated Jan. 1, 1961. “This photo of the Leaning Pine was taken the morning the tree was cut down,” reads the original caption for this photo in the college’s Alumni News, dated March 1, 1972. “THE LEANING PINE — A landmark in hotel days, and now the symbol of Paul Smith’s College,” reads the original caption for this photo in the college...