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Evy Cole Book signing and reading at SLO Down Pub

Written on 5 Apr, 2011 in Eye on the Coast | No comments

Evy Cole’s gone and done it. She’s published a whole book of poems called “From a Train Window.” On March 27, she signed books and read to a crowd at SLO Down Pub in Arroyo Grande. If you would like... (Continue reading)

Hate speech vandalism in Arroyo Grande

Written on 4 Apr, 2011 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 27 comments

Vandals broke into Mesa Middle School in Arroyo Grande over the weekend and covered classroom whiteboards in anti-black and Jewish graffiti, according to the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's department. Statements such as white power, fuck niggers and Jews alongside swastikas were... (Continue reading)

A racist Stormfront hits Arroyo Grande

Written on 28 Mar, 2011 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 56 comments

The Arroyo Grande woman whose house was the scene of a cross burning earlier this month, has retained an attorney and wants to know why police officers investigating the crime asked her about her sexual history from the last ten... (Continue reading)

Arroyo Grande purchases $4,000 dog vests

Written on 26 Mar, 2011 in Daily Briefs | 8 comments

Arroyo Grande Police purchased protective dog vests for a pair of police dogs to better ensure the dogs’ safety. Community donations were used to entirely fund the costs of the vests, approximately $4,000. Because of the weight of the vests,... (Continue reading)

Family coping with cross burning

Written on 21 Mar, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 10 comments

Following the discovery of an 11-foot cross burning outside their home on Friday at 12:30 a.m., a mother and her African-American daughter say they are fearful in their own home and are planning to move. When the daughter and a friend... (Continue reading)

Cross burning terrifies Arroyo Grande family

Written on 18 Mar, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 21 comments

A mother is terrified after finding a cross burning outside her 19-year-old African American daughter’s bedroom window in Arroyo Grande at about 12:30 a.m. on Friday. Hearing banging and fearing someone was breaking into her car, the daughter went out onto... (Continue reading)

Sanitation district showdown set for Wednesday

Written on 16 Mar, 2011 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 18 comments

A proposed investigation into accusations that the administrator of the South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District (SSLOCSD) has been using his position to funnel monies to his private engineering company is on the district’s Wednesday board meeting agenda. Allegations of... (Continue reading)

Cuesta College renews search for South County site

Written on 10 Mar, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

Cuesta College is searching for a new South County education center site after negotiations with owners of a proposed Grover Beach property were abandoned. Cuesta College officials had offered to pay 75 cents a square foot for the Grover Beach... (Continue reading)

Tompkins rethinking Arroyo Grande project

Written on 9 Mar, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

A proposal to build a shopping center anchored by a grocery store on Grand Avenue was sent back to the drawing board by request of the developer at Tuesday’s Arroyo Grande Council meeting. “It is a step in the right... (Continue reading)

Protesters battle against Arroyo Grande development

Written on 4 Mar, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

Protesters holding signs lined up along Grand Avenue in Arroyo Grande to protest the proposed Courtland Place Development on Thursday evening. The development is slated to be built on a four-acre parcel on the corner of Courtland Avenue and East... (Continue reading)