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Restaurant review: Robin’s a smashing success

Written on 27 Oct, 2011 in Discovered, Featured | 9 comments

By LOUIS  BISHOP It is hard to think of a vegetable more symbolic of a season than pumpkin in autumn. So symbolic that most of the effort seems to go into turning them into icons rather than into food–pumpkin pie... (Continue reading)

No oil found in the S.S. Montebello

Written on 21 Oct, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 12 comments

The S.S. Montebello, the World War II oil tanker sunk off the coast of Cambria by a Japanese torpedo, doesn’t pose an oil spill risk. {Fresno Bee] Officials with the state Department of Fish and Game made the announcement Thursday... (Continue reading)

18 foot shark sighted in waters off Cambria

Written on 5 Sep, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

An approximately 18-foot shark sighted in the waters off Cambria prompted authorities to post warning signs along the beach. Cal Fire officials determined the report to be a credible sighting of a shark 50 yards off Leffingwell Landing. As a... (Continue reading)

Cambria bird tests positive for West Nile Virus

Written on 1 Sep, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

A bird found dead in Cambria tested positive for West Nile Virus, the California Department of Public Health announced today. This is the first confirmed case of West Nile Virus in San Luis Obispo County for 2011. West Nile Virus... (Continue reading)

Child abandonment suspect caught in Cambria

Written on 30 Aug, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

A Minnesota architect accused of abandoning his 11-year-old son was arrested Monday afternoon in Cambria while working in a deli. [MinneapolisStarTribune] Steven Alexander Cross, 60, appeared to be living in his van, reported arresting deputies. The Ford Windstar van Cross... (Continue reading)

Feds approve coastal fireworks

Written on 30 Jun, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

Federal regulators on Tuesday gave the green light to July Fourth fireworks shows along the San Luis Obispo, Monterey and Santa Cruz county coasts. Activists have argued that explosions from popular annual pyrotechnics shows along the coast disturb marine life,... (Continue reading)

Cambria’s fire chief firing explained

Written on 5 Jun, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 6 comments

The reasons Cambria Community Services District’s former manager gave for terminating the fire chief include not informing the service district’s general manager of a tsunami warning, talking to the press, and failing to keep performance evaluations up to date, according... (Continue reading)

Cambria’s fire chief reinstated

Written on 14 May, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

Cambria’s Fire Chief Mark Miller will be running the department again on Monday, said Jerry Gruber, Cambria Community Services District interim general manager. [Tribune] On April 12, former general manager Tammy Rudock created a firestorm when she fired Miller. The... (Continue reading)

Cambria’s general manager terminated

Written on 30 Apr, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 31 comments

In the aftermath of the controversial firing of Cambria’s fire chief, the board terminated General Manager Tammy Rudock’s employment on Friday. [KSBY] On Thursday, almost 300 people arrived at a Cambria Community Services District Board meeting to show support for... (Continue reading)

Catherine Ryan Hyde offers fiction workshop

Written on 21 Jul, 2010 in Discovered | One comment

Here’s an interesting way to help save the local environment, while also learning to become a bestselling fiction writer. Cambria novelist Catherine Ryan Hyde, who knows a thing or two about writing novels that sell (“Pay It Forward,” “Love in... (Continue reading)