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Let school administrators craft tenure compromise

Written on 19 Feb, 2014 in Featured, Opinion | 10 comments

OPINION By SUPERINTENDENT CURT DUBOST, Ed.D. A very important, potentially landmark lawsuit is now before Superior Court in Los Angeles involving teacher employment and evaluation in the State of California. The case, Vergara v. California, asserts that current teacher tenure... (Continue reading)

Letter to the editor: Setting the record straight

Written on 19 Feb, 2014 in Featured, Opinion | 3 comments

By KEVIN PEARSON On behalf of Eastern Municipal Water District, we would like to set the record straight regarding Ms. Steinbeck’s guest column on the water rights of residents within the Paso Robles and Kern County regions. Perris-based Eastern Municipal... (Continue reading)

SLOSocial Seen, Frog and Peach

Written on 19 Feb, 2014 in Eye on the Coast, Featured | 2 comments

Slo Social Seen is at it again, checking out the bars downtown to see who’s out and about and where the fun is. Come and experience the night life for yourself and keep watching our videos to see if you... (Continue reading)

Woman airlifted from North County crash

Written on 19 Feb, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

Emergency personnel airlifted a woman early Tuesday morning from a car crash on Highway 46. [Tribune] Around 4:13 a.m. Tuesday, a woman driving east on Highway 46 near Gruenhagen Flat veered into the westbound lane and clipped a Peterbuilt truck... (Continue reading)

Supervisors vote for Paso Robles water district

Written on 19 Feb, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 23 comments

The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday in favor of creating a water district for the Paso Robles groundwater basin. Supervisors Frank Mecham, Adam Hill and Bruce Gibson voted to support legislation to create the district while... (Continue reading)

Person injured in Santa Margarita fire

Written on 19 Feb, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

An apartment fire in Santa Margarita early Wednesday morning left one person in a local hospital. [KSBY] The fire broke out around 2:20 a.m. in an apartment in the 22800 block of El Camino Real in the Santa Margarita area.... (Continue reading)

Lady Gaga’s Hearst pool filling not OK with state

Written on 18 Feb, 2014 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 17 comments

By DANIEL BLACKBURN Lady Gaga’s much publicized video-taping gig at Hearst Castle Feb. 11 had everything a fan of the singer could imagine — music, dancing, plastic swans, fake flowers, and a giant seashell — everything, it seems except proper... (Continue reading)

Support CalCoastNews today

Written on 18 Feb, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

Support CalCoastNews in our mission to provide in-depth and investigative reporting to the Central Coast by supporting our advertisers, donating and shopping at the CalCoastNews store. By supporting our advertisers — such as Blakeslee and Blakeslee, Karen Scott Audiology, ABC... (Continue reading)

Nuanced definitions muddy water debate

Written on 18 Feb, 2014 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 17 comments

By DANIEL BLACKBURN and KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo County supervisors are preparing the framework for facilitating a North County-based water district even while advocates scramble to describe what such a district would, or could, do. A widening rift over... (Continue reading)

Morro Bay blast deemed firework-like device

Written on 18 Feb, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

A blast that prompted a series of 911 calls in Morro Bay Sunday night was caused by a high-powered, improvised firework device, according to the Morro Bay Police Department. [Tribune] The illegal device sounded around 10:07 p.m. Sunday and created... (Continue reading)