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Trailer park treasure?
“Who’s the lucky winner?” Forks and conversation stop, mid-pancake-breakfast, with eyes of all ages watching as the winning 50-50 raffle ticket is plucked from a coffee can. They barely notice the clearing fog down the hill beyond a patchwork of roofs and neatly trimmed shrubbery, revealing a shimmering ocean view from the clubhouse window. These…
San Luis Obispo drafts plans for new sales tax bounty
Expecting more than $11 million in new sales tax money over the next two years, San Luis Obispo city officials are looking at spending the influx on the Bob Jones bicycle trail, new police and fire staff, street improvements, and flood control. Those are among the city’s major goals outlined in an 80-page report prepared…
Sisters want cleaner surf
Some people jokingly call the sludge floating in the ocean “brown chunky applesauce.” The city of Pismo calls it pigeon deprecation from under the pier, but surfer Jennifer Jozwiak disagrees with that. # “It’s a lot of brown stringy stuff that does not look like pigeon poop,” said Jozwiak, vice president of the local Surfrider…
The diminishing blue line
Being a cop isn’t the draw it used to be. Supervisors and recruiters at Central Coast law-enforcement agencies say they’re watching longtime officers retire and are struggling to find new hires to take their place. Even as employment opportunities increase, the pool of candidates is shrinking. “People don’t flock to the job as they used…
Marijuana dispensary is back in business
Alittle more than a week after federal agents and county detectives served a sealed warrant on Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers in Morro Bay, the medicinal marijuana dispensary reopened its doors for business. # On March 29, about a dozen law-enforcement officials from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department arrived…
Get creative in the Dunes
The recent offer by the State of California to purchase Oceano Dunes property owned by San Luis Obispo County has sparked significant discussion and emotion in recent weeks. Supervisor Katcho Achadjian has stepped up to the plate again. He has organized town hall meetings and a Dunes Task Force to gather thoughts and ideas on…
Scrap metal bill not scrapped, but on hold
A bill by Sen. Abel Maldonado to address the problem of scrap metal thefts is dead for the year. The bill, which would require scrap metal and junk dealers to report all receipts or purchases including seller identification to local Sheriff’s Departments within one working day, was held in committee on April 10, according to…
Watch where you cast your line
Fishing in several Central Coast marine reserves could be outlawed or restricted by the State Fish and Game Commission by as early as this summer. Three popular San Luis Obispo County fishing holes Piedras Blancas in San Simeon, Point Buchon by Diablo Canyon, and an unnamed spot in Cambria would no longer allow fishing if…
The breast is yet to come
Glen I think what I appreciate most about this annual fundraiser is its sense of inclusiveness. Unlike a lot of dance shows, this one doesn’t discriminate by age or body type. Some of the performers are senior citizens, others still in their teens. Some are thin, others thick. Tall, short doesn’t matter. They’re all comrades…
County dunes land should be sold, staff says
San Luis Obispo County should sell, rather than lease, its dunes land in the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area, a staff report recommends. The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to make a decision on the state’s $4.8 million purchase offer for 584 acres at its meeting April 17, after weeks of town-hall and task…
Off the books
Cora Solorio, the 24-year-old woman who will face a preliminary court hearing April 25 on charges of sexual misconduct with a 13-year-old boy, was working outside of her formal job responsibilities when she was in contact with that student and others, New Times has found. # Although Solorio has consistently been identified in media and…
Try this delightful deli
Cruising to wine country along rural Highway 227, it’s hard to miss quaint Old Edna alongside the road unless you happen to sneeze as you speed past it. From the busy roadway, the ancient, flat-roofed building looks like just another antique shop on a dusty country road. But this old schoolhouse, once the township of…
Letters
Let’s do something about the feds taking our records I am a client of the Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers. I know personally that Abe (Abram Baxter) has turned away clients who didn’t have the proper documentation. I also know that no matter how accommodating they are, if my letter is out of date, I will…
The great outdoors
I’ve been seeing green lately, and no this isn’t another reference to Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers and the recent federal and county crackdown on everyone’s favorite county dispensary. They’re back up and running, by the way the dispensary, I mean, not the feds, though I suppose they’re back up and running too which just goes…
Fast facts
Visitors to Doc Burnstein’s Ice Cream Lab Show have the chance to invent a new ice cream flavor every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at 114 W. Branch Street in Arroyo Grande. During the free live performance, Doc Burnstein and his partner Ernie give a history of ice cream in addition to creating the new flavor…
Blues life
Rhythm and blues singer Sugar Pie DeSanto knows what living the blues is. In October 2006, her husband Jesse Davis died attempting to extinguish a fire that destroyed their apartment in Oakland, leaving her both a widow and homeless. # Born Umpeylia Marsema Balinton in Brooklyn, New York, on October 16, 1935, to an African…
