SLO County prosecutors reach settlement with pesticide company
By JOSH FRIEDMAN The San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office, along with 16 other California DA’s offices, have reached a $575,000 settlement with a pesticide company over repeated regulatory violations and unfair business practices. Pestmaster Services LP, formerly known as Pestmaster Services Inc., is a nationally franchised company headquartered...
Arroyo Grande back in regional recycled water project
By KAREN VELIE The Arroyo Grande City Council voted unanimously on Sept. 14 to rejoin Pismo Beach and Grover Beach in Central Coast Blue, a regional recycled water project set to bring a reliable water source to the Five Cities area. At a meeting in June, the city council voted...
Morro Bay City Council’s behind closed door decisions
Writer’s Note: This is part four of a story, told in installments, about the corruption involved in Morro Bay’s water reclamation facility. Part one is about Morro Bay City Council’s bait-and-switch. OPINION by CYNTHIA HAWLEY From the start and every step of the way the Morro Bay City Council has...
Gov. Gavin Newsom defeats recall in landslide election
By JOSH FRIEDMAN California Gov. Gavin Newsom will remain in office after defeating the state’s recall initiative by a 64 percent to 36 percent vote on Tuesday. A majority vote was needed in order to recall Newsom. Proponents of the effort to remove Newsom from office did not come close...
Arroyo Grande man robbed at gunpoint while walking his dog
By KAREN VELIE Arroyo Grande Police are looking for two men who robbed a man at gunpoint on Alder Street near Sunset Drive on Monday morning. Shortly before 6 a.m., the victim was walking his dog when a silver sedan stopped beside him, a man jumped out of the passenger...
SLO County’s COVID-19 cases down, 7 new deaths
By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo County reported seven new COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, and a decline in new cases from a daily average of 116 to 96. Those who recently succumbed to the virus range in age from their 50s to their 90s. The number of SLO County residents...
Correctional officer allegedly assaulted banker in Grover Beach
BY KAREN VELIE Grover Beach police today arrested a correctional officer at California Men’s Colony who is accused of making a racial slur against a manager at the Grover Beach Wells Fargo branch, and then attacking the bank employee as he was leaving work. After officers arrested James Allen Jones...
