SLO County unemployment rate drops to record low
Unemployment tumbled to an all time low in San Luis Obispo County in May as the region gained about 200 new jobs during the past month, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday. [Cal Coast Times] With more jobs available fewer people are looking for work, driving the unemployment rate...
Templeton man agrees not to grow cannabis outdoors, plants 15 acres
By KAREN VELIE Shortly after negotiating an agreement not to grow cannabis outdoors for 20 years, the owners of an indoor marijuana grow in Templeton applied for and received a permit to grow 15 acres of industrial hemp, a cannabis strain. [Cal Coast Times] On March 26, Jamie Jones of...
Santa Barbara County deputies seize 20 tons of illegal cannabis
Law enforcement officers seized about 20 tons of illegal cannabis grown at a 60 acre cultivation site in Santa Barbara County during a four-day operation last week, the sheriff’s department said in a press release. [Cal Coast Times] Following a two month investigation, on June 17, detectives from the Santa...
Five killed in shooting and trailer fire in Santa Maria
A gunman opened fire at a senior citizens mobile home park in Santa Maria on Friday, killing two elderly men, and authorities later found the bodies of the suspect and two more people inside a burnt trailer, according to the Santa Maria Police Department. [Cal Coast Times] Police have identified...
The pirate, a Cayucos celebrity
Editor’s Note: The following series, “Life in Radically Gentrifying Cayucos by the Sea,” to be posted weekly includes the notes, thoughts, and opinions of an original American voice: author Dell Franklin. By DELL FRANKLIN The Pirate has his own stool in the Schooner’s Wharf in Cayucos with his name engraved...
Investigators find more human remains in Morro Bay
San Luis Obispo County sheriff deputies found additional human remains in Morro Bay on Friday while searching an area along side Highway 1. [Tribune] On Thursday, Caltrans workers found a human skull while doing tree trimming and landscaping alongside Highway 1 in Morro Bay near the Morro Bay Boulevard off-ramp....
One person killed in Lompoc apartment fire
A fire at a two-story apartment complex in Lompoc on Saturday morning killed one person and caused extensive damage to the building. [Cal Coast Times] At about 6:35 a.m., a fire was reported burning at an apartment in the 1000 block of East Cypress Avenue. Lompoc Fire Crews arrived to...
