Daily Briefs

Atascadero City Council votes against permitting cannabis retail stores

By KAREN VELIE The Atascadero City Council on Tuesday voted 3-2 against allowing retail cannabis stores in the city. Council members Seth Peek, Heather Newsom,...

Santa Barbara County deputies seek help finding missing 9-year-old girl

By KAREN VELIE Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s detectives are asking for the public’s help locating a missing 9-year-old girl, Melodee Buzzard of Vandenberg Village. After...

Driscoll’s donates $5 million to Cal Poly for farm store

By KAREN VELIE Driscoll’s, a global leader in fresh berries, pledged $5 million to Cal Poly for a state-of-the-art farm store, Cal Poly San Luis...

Missing San Luis Obispo man found unresponsive, died shortly afterwards

By KAREN VELIE Deputies found an 86-year-old missing man in a field near the San Luis Obispo Country Club on Tuesday evening. James Quinn was...

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Discovered

A rare pampering at a high-end winery

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...

Don’t push your beliefs on me

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...

A nightmarish coffee maker debacle 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...

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Uncovered SLO

How a romantic message led to a murder in Arroyo Grande

By KAREN VELIE When family members asked the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office to check on a missing 50-year-old woman, it sparked an investigation...

ICE seeks immigration detainers of men accused of murdering woman in SLO County

By KAREN VELIE U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged immigration detainers against two men in the country illegally who allegedly murdered a 50-year-old woman...

Prosecutors reveal details of San Luis Obispo County corruption

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series about developers Ryan Petetit-Wright, John Belsher and the local professionals who assisted in their alleged fraud...

SLO County sheriff, district attorney say no to partisan redistricting

By KAREN VELIE Both San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson and District Attorney Dan Dow have signed letters opposing politically motivated partisan redistricting –Proposition...

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Opinion

The origins of the assassination culture

Opinion by ANDY CALDWELL I recently wrote about a phenomenon among the youth in America known as the “assassination culture.” In addition to Tyler Robinson,...

Frightened for my community as leaders stand behind Antifa

OPINION by STEVE REBUCK So John Ashbaugh, Ph.D., advocates in the SLO New Times for Antifa. Asbaugh endorses bounties on ICE agents, $2,000 for kidnapping,...

Defeat Prop 50: Let’s not revisit the ribbon of shame

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL Please Vote No on Proposition 50 to stop Gavin Newsom from rigging elections in California for the next several years. Your...

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