A dog on wheels in Cayucos
Editor’s Note: The following series, “Life in Radically Gentrifying Cayucos by the Sea,” to be posted biweekly includes the notes, thoughts, and opinions of an original American voice: author Dell...
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Deputies identify the woman who fell to her death near Los Osos
By JOSH FRIEDMAN The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office has identified the individual who fell to her death off a bluff at Montana De Oro State Park on Monday as a 49-year-old Camarillo woman....
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SLO County sheriff and DA against criminalizing people violating coronavirus orders
As scores of business owners refuse to abide by the state’s strict coronavirus rules, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson and District Attorney Dan Dow said that enforcing coronavirus...
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SLO County sheriff deputies seeking armed robbery suspect
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying an armed man who robbed a gas station in Nipomo last week. At 11 p.m. on Dec. 3, an armed man...
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Morro Bay declares Bayshore Village seagulls a menace
By JOSH FRIEDMAN In an effort to protect residents from feces and other nuisances created by seagulls, the Morro Bay City Council adopted a resolution last month allowing a condominium complex to...
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Deputies seize 92 firearms from Santa Barbara gun store operator
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputies seized more than 90 grams of methamphetamine and 92 firearms on Saturday from a man who operates a gun supply store. Kyle Dodge, 36, along...
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It is time for San Simeon’s legal counsel to do the right thing
Opinion by Michael Donahue in an open letter to the San Simeon Community Services District’s legal counsel Jeffery Minnery In light of recent San Simeon Community Services District’s...
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Woman falls from cliff near Los Osos, dies
A woman fell 70-feet to her death from a bluff in the Spooner’s Cove area of Montana De Oro State Park on Monday. Shortly after 4 p.m., witnesses observed a woman walking alone on the bluff...
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SLO County sets another coronavirus case record
As San Luis Obispo County residents prepared for three weeks under stay-at-home orders, with 186 new coronavirus cases on Saturday the county set another record. Likely spurred by Thanksgiving...
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Arata wants a SLO County judge to rule on systemic racism
By KAREN VELIE In the latest attempt to have charges against Black Lives Matter protester Tianna Arata dropped without a trial in San Luis Obispo County, her attorneys filed a motion asking the...
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Who will Gov. Gavin Newsom select to fill high-ranking seats?
In the aftermath of United States Sen. Kamala Harris being elected vice president, California Gov. Gavin Newsom could have three high-ranking statewide office seats to fill, a first in decades....
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Mountain biker airlifted off trail near SLO High School
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A California Highway Patrol helicopter airlifted a mountain biker off a trail in San Luis Obispo on Sunday after the person suffered undisclosed injuries. The individual was...
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The troubling dictates of Gov. Gavin Newsom
OPINION by T. KEITH GURNEE What’s Gov. Gavin Newsom been thinking? He’s been doing some strange things lately, but his latest executive action calling for a coronavirus stay-at-home and lockdown...
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Monolith returned to Pine Mountain in Atascadero
A 10-foot tall monolith was mysteriously returned to Pine Mountain in Atascadero sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning. Locals again flocked to the hiking trail to get a look at the...
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Fire burns cars, outbuildings and brush in SLO
A campfire burning near the creek off Prado Road in San Luis Obispo ignited adjacent brush on Friday evening. The fire then spread to a neighboring property destroying cars and outbuildings. Because...
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