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September, 2020

Climber falls 30 feet from Bishop Peak in San Luis Obispo

Written on 7 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

A CHP helicopter airlifted a rock climber off Bishop Peak in San Luis Obispo Monday morning after the person fell approximately 30 feet and suffered undisclosed trauma. Following the fall, which occurred before 9 a.m., SLO City and Cal Fire... (Continue reading)

Brush fire in San Luis Obispo burns 50 acres

Written on 6 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

A vegetation fire broke out Sunday afternoon near Bridge Street in San Luis Obispo and spread into the South Hills Open Space. At about 4 p.m., a 911 caller reported the blaze. San Luis Obispo City and Cal Fire firefighters... (Continue reading)

Thousands without power in North San Luis Obispo County

Written on 6 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 13 comments

By CCN STAFF On a day of record heat, thousands of San Luis County residents lost power in multiple outages that spanned from rural Atascadero to Heritage Ranch late Sunday afternoon. The largest outage is in Templeton, where approximately 2,570... (Continue reading)

Parishioners prevail in battle over Grover Beach church

Written on 6 Sep, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 9 comments

By KAREN VELIE An expensive legal battle over ownership of the Bethel Baptist Church in Grover Beach concluded with the parishioners saving their church through a private settlement agreement. After learning in late 2018 that the 57-year-old church was being... (Continue reading)

Music icon Bobby Engel dead at 73

Written on 6 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

By CCN STAFF Robert John “Bobby” Engel, a nationally-recognized music booking agent and president of Variety Artists International, Inc, died on August 14 at his home in Creston after a brief illness. He was 73. Engel and his wife, Claudia... (Continue reading)

Tears for Tianna Arata

Written on 6 Sep, 2020 in Featured, Opinion | 41 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL When I consider Tianna Arata, I don’t see a Martin Luther King in the making, not yet anyway, despite what the BLM spin doctors have to say. Instead, I see a young kid who got inebriated... (Continue reading)

SLO County resident in their 50 dies of coronavirus

Written on 5 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

San Luis Obispo County health officials announced two new deaths from coronavirus on Friday, a resident in his 50s with no underlying health issues and a 90-year-old man with chronic health issues. Even so, the number of new cases and... (Continue reading)

San Luis Obispo man killed in plane crash

Written on 5 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

A San Luis Obispo engineer and acrobatics enthusiast died in a plane crash in Virginia on Monday while piloting a small aircraft on a cross-country trip. Nicolas Hellewell, 35, was the lone occupant of a single-engine, four-seat Piper PA-20-135 that... (Continue reading)

SLO man accused of impersonating a police officer

Written on 5 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

Police arrested a 63-year-old San Luis Obispo man on Friday for allegedly impersonating a police officer. Shortly after 11 a.m., a man called 911 to report a person in the vehicle behind him was pretending to be a police officer... (Continue reading)

Atascadero man convicted of raping teenage girls

Written on 4 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

A jury found a 59-year-old Atascadero man guilty of 20 felony counts related to sexually abusing and drugging four teenage girls, ages 15 to 17. In Nov. 2017, officers arrested Jess Drue Brasuell III following an alleged sexual assault of... (Continue reading)