SLO management snubs policy critic
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Amid allegation of financial inadequacies, San Luis Obispo’s assistant city manager ordered the city clerk to leave the name of an outspoken applicant for a position on the...
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Author: Karen Velie
Welcome in Obama Care
OPINION By STEW JENKINS For fear mongers who have tried selling doubt, facts already show that the Affordable Care Act is bringing down health insurance costs making coverage available to everyone....
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Paso Robles city council moving forward on Gateway Project
The Paso Robles City Council is moving forward on a proposal to annex 270 acres south of the city dubbed the Gateway Project. The proposal includes plans to develop three hotels, 62,300 feet of...
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Paavo Ogren’s fictional presentation
Letter by Julie Tacker the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board At the September 17, 2013 San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors meeting, after considerable public comment,...
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Gearhart properties to be auctioned
By KAREN VELIE Three of former north county developer Kelly Gearhart’s properties will be sold at auction in October including the Paso Robles golf course property known as Vista del Hombre. A New...
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KCOY-TV consolidating with NPG
The News-Press & Gazette, the company that purchased KEYT in Nov. 2012, is taking over KCOY’s news operation. This will leave KSBY as the only local station without NPG produced news content....
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Plane lands on Highway 101 in Gaviota
A single-engine plane flown by a 25-year-old pilot made an emergency landing on Highway 101 in Gaviota on Friday afternoon. At about 4:30 p.m., the pilot noticed he was out of fuel and landed the...
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Central Coast ground water quality poorest in state
By KAREN VELIE In southern San Luis Obispo County and northern Santa Barbara County researchers found more wells with high concentrations of nitrates, arsenic and molybdenum than anywhere else in...
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Paso Robles police lock down middle school
Officials locked down a middle school in Stanislaus County on Thursday afternoon while Paso Robles police searched for three murder suspects. None of the homicide suspects were located. [ModestoBee]...
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More 29th Central Coast Writers’ Conference event photos
The 29th Cuesta College Central Coast Writers’ Conference featured keynote speaker Rebecca Rasmussen, fiction and nonfiction writers, journalists, screenwriters, agents and editors. If you...
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California doctor saves choking victim with knife and a straw
A Kern county doctor saved the life of a chocking victim by performing a life-saving tracheotomy in a Bakersfield restaurant on Monday evening. [BakersfieldCalifornian] Kern Community College...
Read MorePaso Robles supervisor departs under criminal cloud
The former building, parks and streets maintenance supervisor for Paso Robles is under investigation for allegedly embezzling thousands of dollars from the city. Charles Lorenzen, 52, was placed on paid administrative leave a...
Read MoreCounty investigating possible water ordinance violators
San Luis Obispo County code enforcement staffers are investigating a dozen reports of people violating a temporary water ordinance that prohibits the planting of new vineyards in the Paso Robles groundwater basin area under most...
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Los Osos sewer contractor dumping millions of gallons of water into Morro Bay
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Every three days, contractor W.A. Rasic dumps more water into Morro Bay than an Olympic-size pool can hold. It’s part of the Los Osos Wastewater Project, putting in a sewer system...
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29th Central Coast Writers’ Conference, event photos
The 29th Cuesta College Central Coast Writers’ Conference featured keynote speaker Rebecca Rasmussen, fiction and nonfiction writers, journalists, screenwriters, agents and editors. If you...
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