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Grover Beach residents prevail, city to remove protected bike lanes

Written on 24 Oct, 2019 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 16 comments

By KAREN VELIE The Grover Beach City Council voted unanimously Monday to remove a partially constructed protected bike lane on Newport Avenue, shorty after residents advertised the idea of a recall. [Cal Coast Times] In mid-September, construction workers began construction... (Continue reading)

Morro Bay residents win referendum petition against city hall

Written on 23 Oct, 2019 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 18 comments

By CCT STAFF The citizens of Morro Bay have won the right to vote on a referendum challenging a city ordinance that allows annexation of a property where the city plans to build a $126 million sewer plant. The proponents... (Continue reading)

Cannabis industries’ dirty loophole, research exempt hemp

Written on 22 Oct, 2019 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 8 comments

Editor’s note: This is part one in a series about a loophole in the state and county’s hemp regulations and those taking advantage of the lack of oversight. By KAREN VELIE The signs say “hemp.” But at multiple grows throughout... (Continue reading)

Burglars interrupted at Templeton cannabis farm

Written on 21 Oct, 2019 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 14 comments

By CCT STAFF Workers at a cannabis cultivation site on York Mountain Road in Templeton interrupted three burglars early Monday morning. Shortly after 6 a.m., workers discovered the thieves in the act of taking hemp plants. The startled thieves dropped... (Continue reading)

Atascadero student arrested for messing with lunch lady’s car

Written on 18 Oct, 2019 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 29 comments

By KAREN VELIE Three days before Governor Gavin Newson signed a bill banning schools from shaming children for not having lunch money, police officers arrested a 13-year-old 8th grade student at Atascadero Middle School for pouring grape juice in the... (Continue reading)

Judge orders SLO prosecutors to provide records, again

Written on 15 Oct, 2019 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 35 comments

By KAREN VELIE Judge Timothy Covello granted a motion on Tuesday to compel prosecutors to provide phone records and other evidence in the case against a couple swept up in the search for San Luis Obispo Police Chief Deanna Cantrell’s... (Continue reading)

Oceano residents rejected fire tax, officials giving it another try

Written on 14 Oct, 2019 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 8 comments

By CCT STAFF Five years ago, Oceano residents said no to an annual fire tax, and in 2020 they will have another opportunity to approve or reject a new plan to levy a $180 annual tax on every home. The... (Continue reading)

IWMA votes for San Luis Obispo County-wide Styrofoam ban

Written on 10 Oct, 2019 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 26 comments

BY CCT STAFF The San Luis Obispo County Integrated Waste Management Authority (IWMA) voted Wednesday to approve a countywide ban on Styrofoam. The ban is slated to go into effect in six months. Currently, five of the seven cities in... (Continue reading)

Suit challenges cannabis bureau over marijuana billboards

Written on 9 Oct, 2019 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 17 comments

By KAREN VELIE A San Luis Obispo man with two teenagers is suing the California Bureau of Cannabis Control over marijuana business billboards that he says were banned under Proposition 64, the voter initiative that legalized and regulates cannabis. [Cal... (Continue reading)

SLO doctor accused of gross negligence

Written on 6 Oct, 2019 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 12 comments

By KAREN VELIE State prosecutors filed an accusation against a San Luis Obispo internist for having unlicensed employees perform medical procedures, ordering narcotics in her own name to give patients, and for neglecting patients. [Cal Coast Times] For several years,... (Continue reading)