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April, 2015

Steely Dan reels them in at Vina Robles

Written on 18 Apr, 2015 in Discovered, Featured | 5 comments

By COLIN JONES It’s another routine Tuesday night in mid-April, do you know where your intrepid, independent central coast music critic is? I’ll tell you where: alone and freezing my ass off at an outdoor show by 1970s stylists Steely... (Continue reading)

Dissolution of Los Osos is the only solution

Written on 18 Apr, 2015 in Featured, Opinion | 44 comments

OPINION By TOM SALMON The Los Osos Community Services District was created in 1999 based on the premise of “local control.” When formed, the original board enacted latent powers that included providing the services of sewer, half the community’s water,... (Continue reading)

Open letter to SLO County Board of Supervisors

Written on 18 Apr, 2015 in Featured, Opinion | 12 comments

OPINION By GARY KIRKLAND This letter is in regard to the Las Pilitas mine project. Private property rights are a corner stone of a free society in this country. When government tells private property owners what they can and cannot... (Continue reading)

Lenny Jones charged with molesting a third child

Written on 18 Apr, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 31 comments

The San Luis Obispo District Attorney’s Office filed five additional criminal charges against Lenny Jones after deputies identified a third child who Jones allegedly sexually molested last month. Jones, Arroyo Grande’s 2014 Citizen of the Year, is accused of kidnapping,... (Continue reading)

Thomas Yanaga back in San Luis Obispo County Jail

Written on 18 Apr, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

Murder suspect Thomas Yanaga was booked backed into the San Luis Obispo County Jail on Friday evening. On Friday morning, Yanaga of Paso Robles, Benjamin Ramage of Morro Bay and Scott Penner of Templeton plead not guilty of attempted murder... (Continue reading)

Los Osos man smashes police department door

Written on 18 Apr, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

Morro Bay police arrested a Los Osos man after he allegedly threw a sledgehammer through the police department door Thursday night. Shortly before 8 p.m., Michael Andrew Parkerson, 27, allegedly walked up to the police department’s front door, threw the... (Continue reading)

DOJ investigators raid the Manse on Marsh

Written on 17 Apr, 2015 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 22 comments

By KAREN VELIE Investigators from the California Department of Justice continue their work reviewing computer records following a March 24 raid on the Manse on Marsh, an independent living facility in San Luis Obispo. More than a dozen investigators from... (Continue reading)

Lucia Mar teachers dissatisfied with 6 percent raise

Written on 17 Apr, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 51 comments

The Lucia Mar teachers’ union has ratified its new pay agreement with the school district, but about 40 percent of union members voted against the new contract that awards teachers a 6 percent raise over the next year. [Tribune] Last... (Continue reading)

New Times’ staff riddled by departures

Written on 17 Apr, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 21 comments

By DANIEL BLACKBURN New Times, San Luis Obispo’s weekly newspaper, is looking for a few good men… or women, an editor or two, and a reporter. Ryan Miller, the paper’s executive editor whose primary responsibility was running sister paper Santa... (Continue reading)

Katcho Achadjian to run for Congress

Written on 17 Apr, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 35 comments

Republican assemblyman and former San Luis Obispo County supervisor, Katcho Achadjian, is joining the congressional race to replace Lois Capps. Achadjian said he was considering a run for Congress shortly after Capps announced earlier this month that she would retire.... (Continue reading)