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Fireworks likely cause of Cambria fire

Written on 27 Dec, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

Fireworks caused a small hillside fire in Cambria early Tuesday morning, according to firefighting officials. [Tribune] The fire burned a forested area of about 40 square feet on a hill below the Cambria Pines Lodge before firefighters extinguished it. Fireworks... (Continue reading)

Coast Union High grad stars as naked survivalist

Written on 20 Dec, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

A graduate of Coast Union High School in Cambria has become the high scoring survivalist on the Discovery Channel reality Show “Naked and Afraid.” [Tribune] Forrest Galante, 25, survived three weeks in a Panamanian jungle amid stormy weather and without... (Continue reading)

Gambling addiction leads to bank robbery?

Written on 4 Dec, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 11 comments

Investigators are looking at a Paso Robles man’s gambling addiction as a possible motive for his alleged robbery of a Cambria bank. [KSBY] Last Month, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Valentine at his Heritage Ranch home for the... (Continue reading)

Former deputy remains in jail on bank robbery charge

Written on 27 Nov, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

Former Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputy Bruce Valentine will remain in San Luis Obispo County on a bank robbery charge for at least two more weeks unless he can raise $250,000 bail. [Tribune] Valentine, 70, is charged with robbing Rabobank... (Continue reading)

Sheriff deputy turned bank robber?

Written on 22 Nov, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 11 comments

The 70-year-old Paso Robles man arrested Wednesday for robbing a Cambria bank was a former Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputy. [KCOY] From 1969 to 1977, Bruce Valentine served as a deputy before leaving the department because of a non-service related... (Continue reading)

70-year-old man arrested for robbing Cambria bank

Written on 21 Nov, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

A 70-year-old Paso Robles man was arrested on Wednesday morning for allegedly robbing a Rabobank in Cambria earlier this month. San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Bruce Valentine after serving a search warrant at Valentine’s Heritage Ranch home. On... (Continue reading)

Masked man robs Cambria bank

Written on 8 Nov, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff deputies are looking for a man who held up the Rabobank on Main Street in Cambria at gunpoint on Thursday. At about 12:30 p.m., the robber wearing a Halloween mask covering his face and carrying... (Continue reading)

Fire causes power outage in Cambria

Written on 19 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

UPDATE: PG&E has update the estimated time of power restoration to 10 p.m. A power outage has left 611 PG&E customers without electricity in Cambria. Shortly after 10:30 a.m., Cambria Community Services District firefighters responded to a transformer fire. Shortly... (Continue reading)

Cambria board member challenging Gibson for supervisor

Written on 14 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 14 comments

Muril Clift, member of the Cambria Community Services District (CSD) Board of Directors, will challenge incumbent Bruce Gibson for the District Two San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors seat. Clift is a past president of the Cambria CSD board... (Continue reading)

Cambria man guilty of murder

Written on 24 Sep, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 12 comments

A Cambria man who stabbed his brother in the head with a screwdriver was found guilty of first degree murder on Monday. A jury found Brandon Henslee, 23, guilty of murdering his brother Tyler Hanks, 20, in 2012 at a... (Continue reading)