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SLO County officials ask governor to ease shelter restrictions

Written on 21 Apr, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 15 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN With San Luis Obispo County having successfully flattened the coronavirus case curve and some residents demanding an end to the statewide shelter-in-place order, a bipartisan group of elected officials is petitioning Gov. Gavin Newsom to allow a... (Continue reading)

San Luis Obispo County allows some businesses to reopen

Written on 20 Apr, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 16 comments

San Luis Obispo County is now allowing several types of businesses to reopen, including pet grooming, construction, recreational fishing, and elective surgery centers. In addition, the county planning department will resume processing permit applications. The community has successfully flattened the... (Continue reading)

District Attorney orders San Simeon to correct Brown Act violation

Written on 19 Apr, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 8 comments

By KAREN VELIE The San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s office recently ordered the San Simeon Community Services District to correct a Brown Act violation, or face litigation. On March 20, the district board held a special meeting without allowing... (Continue reading)

Inmate at Santa Barbara County Jail tests positive for coronavirus

Written on 18 Apr, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 4 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN A Santa Barbara County Jail inmate has contracted coronavirus, the first case among prisoners at the facility. Previously, one Santa Barbara County custody deputy tested positive for the virus. Santa Maria police officers arrested the 40-year-old man... (Continue reading)

Coronavirus springs Kelly Gearhart from federal prison

Written on 16 Apr, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 15 comments

By KAREN VELIE Former San Luis Obispo County developer Kelly Gearhart is scheduled for an April 29 transfer from federal prison into confinement at his Wadsworth, Ohio home as part of a plan to limit the spread of the coronavirus... (Continue reading)

One dead, one injured after shooting at former judge’s Arroyo Grande home

Written on 15 Apr, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 7 comments

By KAREN VELIE One man is hospitalized with multiple gunshot wounds and the shooter is dead following a dispute at a former U.S. magistrate’s Arroyo Grande home on the 100 block of Pine Street. During an argument over “drug-related activity,”... (Continue reading)

SLO County Supervisor Adam Hill resigns as board chair

Written on 11 Apr, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 31 comments

By KAREN VELIE Bowing to community pressure, San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Adam Hill announced on Saturday afternoon he would be relinquishing his role as chairman, while remaining on the board of supervisors. In a letter emailed to the county,... (Continue reading)

Los Osos CSD seeking delay in sewer rate increase

Written on 11 Apr, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 5 comments

The Los Osos Community Services District voted 4-1 on April 7 to ask the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors to delay the sewer rate increase process because of the current shelter-at-home order. On March 4, the county sent... (Continue reading)

Drunk Arroyo Grande man responsible for his own death

Written on 10 Apr, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 6 comments

An Arroyo Grande man who was killed after he walked in front of a car transporting four children, was highly intoxicated and responsible for his own death, Grover Beach police said. In the weeks following 33-year-old Justin Dean Truman Kissinger’s... (Continue reading)

Dee Torres sets sights on Supervisor Adam Hill’s retirement

Written on 8 Apr, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 31 comments

By KAREN VELIE One day after San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Adam Hill attempted suicide, his soon-to-be ex-wife Dee Torres took action to attach Hill’s county retirement account. After two years of marriage, Hill and Torres separated in the fall... (Continue reading)