Cover Story
Meth made easy
Your Neighbor the Meth Head If you believed everything you read about meth, you’d think you could spot a user a mile a way. The sunken face, rotten teeth, scabby, picked-at lesions — classic hallmarks of the speed freak. And while there’s no denying the gruesome transformation many people undergo when they get hooked on…
Letters
Cop Doubt: Do the Family a Favor and Give It a Rest   Shame on you, New Times and Daniel Blackburn, for publishing the story about Grover Beach police Lt. Brian Thomas (“Cop Out,â€? January 26) and pasting a photo of Brian’s widow on the cover. Yes, Brian took his own life and yes, there were…
Free for all!
#PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER GARDNERCLEARINGHOUSE SPECIAL Turn your trash into treasure and save precious landfill space with SLO Freecycle, an online sharing network for giving and getting started by Los Osos resident Judy Sullivan.   At the end of the week, this newspaper will probably be recycled. It’s just the right thing to do, right? But…
Four found flim-flamming baby formula
  SLO police arrested four people Saturday afternoon for stealing over $400 worth of powdered baby formula from the Albertson’s supermarket on Madonna Road in SLO. The three women and one man, all from Los Angeles, were booked for burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary after a store employee witnessed them loading cans of powdered…
Smart suit
#KRISTIN SMART An accomplished swimmer, she loved to travel and was a Speech-Com major.    Terry Black is an angry man. So angry, in fact, he’s willing to part with $25,000 of his own money as a reward to anyone who finds Kristin Smart. “There is enough information out there to solve this case right…
FAST FACTS
FAST FACTS   Deep down inside, we’re all artists, even if we’re posing as accountants, or nurses, or real estate agents. It’s just difficult sometimes to know how to tap into the spring of ideas that feeds creative expression and opens us up to our art. Local poet, artist, and creative consultant Francesca Nemko has made…
School lockdown creates panic
   Students at Atascadero Junior High School were instructed to hide under their desks in locked classrooms for nearly an hour during a school lockdown Tuesday afternoon, while police searched for an armed robbery suspect in a nearby creek.    Police helicopters and dogs took part in the search, which coincided with the end of…
Brutal afternoon skateboard beating on Higuera
#,#    There’s no explanation. David Siebert was walking down Higuera Street at 1:30 p.m. when two men brutally assaulted him, one brandishing a skateboard, the other a two-foot chain with large blunt piece of metal attached to it. “This wasn’t just some gag,â€? says Seibert, who suffered multiple injuries during the attack. “These guys, after the…
SLO rallies against Bush
   A couple of hundred citizens gathered outside the county courthouse on Monterey Street Tuesday afternoon to protest President Bush, who was delivering his State of the Union address that same evening. The people of San Luis Obispo have spoken, but G. W. — despite his surfeit of unconstitutional surveillance devices — did not appear…
