SLO Symphony will no longer work with the board
In response to the San Luis Obispo Symphony’s Board of Directors firing longtime director Michael Nowak, the symphony’s musicians said in a press release on Saturday that they can no...
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Author: Karen Velie
Multiple hit-and-run accidents in Santa Maria
Santa Maria police arrested two people involved in a series of hit-and-run accidents that left multiple people injured on Friday night and Saturday afternoon. On Saturday, Santa Maria police...
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SLO City Council, a bizarre reality show
By KAREN VELIE It was supposed to be a workshop about the San Luis Obispo City Council working together with an acceptable level of decorum. It turned into an eight-hour session with curses,...
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How do we create a post-fossil fuel society?
Opinion by Fielding Graduate University President Katrina Rogers, PhD The oil spill the occurred off 20 miles north of Santa Barbara on May 19 raises once again the specter of an increasingly...
Read More We will get Maestro Nowak back
OPINION By NANCY DAHL Is the San Luis Obispo Symphony Board so out of touch with the musical world that they learned nothing from the situation in Minnesota over the last three years? The Minnesota...
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Oil spill cleanup continues, few animals impacted
Three days after thousands of gallons of oil from a ruptured pipeline poured into the ocean west of Goleta, officials report three dead pelicans and one dead common dolphin, though the cause of...
Read MoreSteve Gesell’s $120,000 severance
San Luis Obispo City officials agreed Thursday to pay police Chief Steve Gesell a $120,000 severance to end his employment with the city as of May 29. City manager Katie Lichtig placed Gesell on paid administrative leave on May...
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Atascadero High School on lock down following shots fired
UPDATE, 12:20 p.m.: After more than two hours of heavy law enforcement presence, officials lifted the campus lock-down shortly before noon. Sources said a teacher and student reported hearing shots,...
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Mike Seitz resigns from sanitation district
By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District legal counsel Mike Seitz announced his resignation Wednesday shortly after an outside investigator began an audit of the sanitation...
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SLO County Jail procedures deemed unconstitutional
By STEW JENKINS California’s 3rd District Court of Appeal recently upheld a ruling barring a county jail from requiring glass partitions between inmates and lawyers, a more than 40 year practice of...
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Oil pipeline spills 21,000 gallons off Central Coast
A ruptured pipeline near Goleta spilled 21,000 gallons of crude oil into the ocean Tuesday creating an approximately four-mile wide oil slick. The portion of the pipeline near Refugio State Beach...
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4 reasons not to miss the Pismo Beach Chardonnay Symposium
In the end of May, for four days only, dozens of winemakers from around the globe will treat the Central Coast to an exclusive tasting of the world’s favorite wine, the Chardonnay. The event,...
Read More Open letter to the SLO Symphony director
OPINION By DIANE BLAKESLEE BROCATO Mr. Feingold, Although you’ve now had the job of executive director of the San Luis Obispo Symphony for approximately a year, to my recollection you and I...
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SLO County’s disappearing budget surplus
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Less than six months after the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors awarded extra pay to all employees after staff claimed a $30 million budget surplus, the county is running...
Read MoreShelly Higginbotham running for District 3 supervisor
Pismo Beach Mayor Shelly Higginbotham announced Monday her candidacy for the San Luis Obispo County supervisor seat currently held by Adam Hill. Higginbotham joins San Luis Obispo Councilman Dan Carpenter, former Grover Beach...
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