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Is the SLO City Council ignoring public input?

Written on 8 Feb, 2017 in Featured, Opinion | 24 comments

OPINION by ALLAN COOPER On Tuesday, Feb. 7, the San Luis Obispo City Council denied an appeal of the city’s Architectural Review Committee’s Dec. 5th approval of 22 Chorro Street. Before their vote, the council received 48 letters of support... (Continue reading)

Missing man with Alzheimer’s found dead in rural SLO

Written on 2 Feb, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

A search and rescue team found the dead body of a missing 75-year-old San Luis Obispo man who had Alzheimers on Wednesday. Rich Korsgaard had been missing since Sunday. Around 10 a.m., search and rescue personnel from Kern County found... (Continue reading)

SLO man with Alzheimers goes missing

Written on 30 Jan, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

A 75-year-old San Luis Obispo man who is suffering from Alzheimers went missing Sunday. Authorities have yet to find him. Richard Korsgaard was last seen around 2 p.m. when he was walking near his rural San Luis Obispo home in... (Continue reading)

Police identify woman who died in SLO fire

Written on 28 Jan, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

Police have identified a San Luis Obispo woman who was found dead last week in a mobile home that caught fire as Judith Ashlock, 69. Investigators determined Ashlock died from natural causes. While cooking on her stove, Ashlock had a... (Continue reading)

Women’s march inspires action,so let’s get to work

Written on 26 Jan, 2017 in Featured, Opinion | 28 comments

OPINION by STEW JENKINS Like so many local men, I participated in the Women’s March in San Luis Obispo on Jan. 21 the day after our new president belted out the most caustic inaugural speech in living memory. The gathering... (Continue reading)

SLO burglar grabs laptop but leaves fingernail

Written on 26 Jan, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 10 comments

An alleged burglar made off with a MacBook from a Mustang Village apartment but left behind a broken fingernail. The suspect also left her Facebook username on the victim’s phone, according to the San Luis Obispo Police Department. Police are... (Continue reading)

Man suspected of slapping women’s butts at Cal Poly

Written on 25 Jan, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 21 comments

Cal Poly police are investigating two cases of sexual battery that were reported to have occurred on and near the university campus in the span of less than a week. [KSBY] On Monday, a bicyclist allegedly slapped a female student’s... (Continue reading)

Thousands of gallons of sewage spill in SLO

Written on 23 Jan, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

Sewage burst out of San Luis Obispo pipes twice on Sunday, resulting in 42,000 gallons of effluent spilling into storm drains that flow into the San Luis Obispo Creek and the Pacific Ocean, according to the SLO County Public Health... (Continue reading)

Women’s march in SLO attracts thousands

Written on 21 Jan, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 69 comments

Correction: Over 7,000 thousand people attended the San Luis Obispo Women’s March. Thousands of people gathered at Mitchell Park in San Luis Obispo on Saturday morning for the Women’s March, a much larger-than-expected crowd in a march to protect the... (Continue reading)

Woman killed in SLO mobile home fire

Written on 20 Jan, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

A San Luis Obispo woman died Thursday night after her mobile home caught fire. The woman failed to escape the blaze, and firefighters did not manage to rescue her. At 10:13 p.m., a citizen reported the fire after seeing smoke... (Continue reading)