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Recalled Los Osos board member wins election in Iowa

Written on 8 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 13 comments

Former Los Osos Community Services District board member Stan Gustafson, whom voters recalled in 2005, won a special election Tuesday for an Iowa House of Representatives seat. [Des Moines Register] Los Osos voters recalled Gustafson in September 2005 after contractors... (Continue reading)

Los Osos woman killed in car crash identified

Written on 8 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

Officers have identified the woman killed in a car crash on Avila Beach Road Sunday as Denise Snider, of Los Osos. [Tribune] Snider, 44, drove her pickup truck off the road shortly after midnight Sunday and traveled down an embankment,... (Continue reading)

SLO County clerk-recorder to retire

Written on 8 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 16 comments

San Luis Obispo County Clerk-Recorder Julie Rodewald announced Tuesday that she will retire at the end of her term in January 2015. [Tribune] Rodewald has worked for the county for 33 years and spent the last 20 as clerk-recorder. She... (Continue reading)

California farmers removing grape vines

Written on 7 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 53 comments

California farmers are ripping up grape vines and switching to higher yielding crops to cope with an ongoing drought, according to a report by San Rafael wine broker Ciatti Co. [Mercury News] The report estimates that California vintners will remove... (Continue reading)

Two men arrested for stealing SLO firefighting equipment

Written on 7 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

San Luis Obispo police arrested two men Monday for stealing firefighting equipment from a fireman’s car. Around 7:48 a.m., police received a report of theft of San Luis Obispo Fire Department equipment from a firefighter’s car parked in the downtown... (Continue reading)

Abuse of authority claims filed against San Luis Obispo

Written on 7 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 17 comments

The San Luis Obispo City Council will discuss two abuse of authority claims lodged by victims of former rogue police officer Cory Pierce at Tuesday night’s council meeting. In February, FBI agents arrested Pierce after an undercover investigation revealed Pierce... (Continue reading)

Los Osos woman killed in car crash

Written on 7 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

A 44-year-old Los Osos woman died Sunday evening in a single vehicle crash near Sycamore Mineral Springs Resort on Avila Beach Drive. Shortly after midnight, the unnamed woman’s 1985 Chevrolet pickup left the road, struck a small tree, traveled down... (Continue reading)

California court upholds San Francisco bag ban

Written on 6 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

A California appellate court upheld San Francisco’s single-use plastic bag ban in a precedent setting ruling Friday. [SF Gate] After the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed the bag ban in February 2012, Save the Plastic Bag Coalition, a pro-plastic... (Continue reading)

Salinas crop circle, marketers not aliens

Written on 6 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

The unique crop circle discovered in a Salinas farm last week was created by marketers not aliens. On Sunday at an electronics show in Las Vegas, Jen-Hsun Huang, the CEO of computer graphics company NVIDIA, announced his company created the... (Continue reading)

Santa Maria liquor store robber gets away

Written on 6 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

A man robbed a Santa Maria liquor store Sunday night and evaded capture. [KSBY] The robber entered El Ranchero Liquor Store on West Main Street around 9:45 p.m. on Sunday. He showed a gun and demanded money and merchandise from... (Continue reading)