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Molnar ran for mayor while moving residence outside Grover Beach

Written on 1 Feb, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

Grover Beach Councilwoman Phyllis Molnar resigned from the city council Thursday following the announcement of a change in her residence to outside the city limits. Molnar unsuccessfully ran for mayor in the November 2012 election as a midterm councilwoman. She... (Continue reading)

Grover Beach man pleads guilty to loan fraud

Written on 29 Jan, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

A Grover Beach man and his brother pled guilty last week to committing loan fraud to fund their music business and a singer in a rock bands lavish life style. Jason Salazar, 28, of Grover Beach and Matt Salazar, 29,... (Continue reading)

Arroyo Grande considering city charter

Written on 28 Jan, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

The Arroyo Grande City Council has created a committee to explore the idea of becoming a charter city in order to cut costs. The council decided in December to establish an 11-member committee that would make recommendations as to the... (Continue reading)

Family files lawsuit against Grover Beach man, trucking company

Written on 15 Jan, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

The family involved in a crash with a tractor-trailer truck that left their vehicle dangling off of a Highway 101 bridge last year has filed a lawsuit against the trucking company and the estate of the Grover Beach driver. [Noozhawk]... (Continue reading)

Sanitation plant’s continuing violations costly to community

Written on 19 Dec, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 14 comments

The South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District was slapped with another notice of violation on Tuesday for continuing environmental failures at the plant which are likely to result in more fines. Investigators from the Environmental Protection Agency and the... (Continue reading)

Man dead after police standoff

Written on 5 Dec, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 15 comments

A Roseville man suspected of attempted murder apparently shot himself fatally early this morning after a lengthy standoff in Grover Beach. William Roger Forgey, 46, was found dead at around 2:30 a.m after SWAT officers entered the house where he... (Continue reading)

Man shoots and seriously injures estranged wife

Written on 2 Dec, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 27 comments

Grover Beach Police are searching for a man who allegedly shot his estranged wife on Saturday around 9 p.m. William Roger Forgey, 46, of Roseville shot his wife at a home on the 800 block of Mentone Avenue and then... (Continue reading)

Sanitation plant failures threaten groundwater

Written on 26 Nov, 2012 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 24 comments

By KAREN VELIE During an inspection of the South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation plant earlier this year, federal Environmental Control Agency (EPA) inspectors discovered several self-monitoring and biosolid handling deficiencies that could result in groundwater contamination, according to a... (Continue reading)

Uncounted ballots could swing key elections

Written on 8 Nov, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 18 comments

Ballots remaining uncounted could swing a couple of close elections in San Luis Obispo County. Election officials must still count 29,912 countywide ballots. The county clerk-recorder’s office says it plans to resume the counting process Friday. Of the nearly 30,000... (Continue reading)

Peterson swamps Molnar to win Grover Beach mayor seat

Written on 7 Nov, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

Debbie Peterson, a Grover Beach councilwoman, easily swept to victory in the race for mayor with a 75 to 24 percent lead over Phyllis Molnar. Peterson is expected to make changes in the South County Sanitation District’s leadership following regulators... (Continue reading)