Cover Story
Beyond the trial
Up the Cabrillo Highway from the government seat, the men and women of the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department occupy a spartan complex in the shadow of Cerro Romauldo. Near the inlet of this frontage of bunkers, storage garages, and office buildings exists a small facility, easy enough to miss if not for the…
Garden delight
For the home gardener or do-it-yourself landscaper, High Tide Nursery is the perfect resource for everything from mulches and sods to pet-friendly pesticides. Owners Joel Stern and Nanci Ott have a combined 20 years of experience in the plant business and the know-how to get you through any landscaping crisis. They specialize in plants that…
Gone to pot
I’ve been doing some home improvements lately nothing fancy, just a little paint here, a new bookshelf there. I’m not what anyone would call a handyman by any means (for more reasons than one), but I get the job done. Barely. As long you don’t set anything heavier than a couple sheets of paper on…
Sewer sides scrap over panel participant
Los Osos CSD bankruptcy counsel the week of Jan. 8 shelved a motion challenging a U.S. Department of Justice placement of former board member Richard LeGros on a panel of unsecured creditors. Qualms with the appointment arose during the public services agency’s first closed door session of 2007, but talk of a legal challenge stalled…
Fast facts
Can you hear me now? Beginning Jan. 12, and continuing every second Friday of the month, Advanced Hearing Aid Center will provide free hearing aid clinics at its Garden Creek office. The expert staff will be happy to check and replace batteries, conduct hearing tests, and answer all hearing-related questions starting at 2 p.m. Advanced…
New county planning commissioner
SLO County’s newest Planning Commission member, Anne Wyatt of Cambria, faces some weighty decisions at her first meeting, set for Jan. 11. # Wyatt appointed to her post by new county supervisor Bruce Gibson and the other four planning commissioners are due to consider three winery projects, all on the west side of Hwy. 101…
Letters
In memoriam of who?Every time I see a flag half-staff, I think it’s for James Brown. Who’s this Ford guy everyone’s talking about anyways? Forrestt Williams Avila Beach Spend your money where you’re happy to do soIn response to Gina Hobbs’ commentary in the Jan. 4 issue (“Listen up, Mom and Pops”):…
Correction
“Judge delivers return-of-pot order, Grover bogarts,” (Jan. 4) briefly mentions a similar return-of-medical-marijuana order issued on behalf of patient Ben Breschini on Aug. 23 by Judge Dodie Harman. The brief should have said that Harman’s order came directly after charges against Breschini “dematerialized.”
Dunes showdown
Revving up the ongoing controversy over vehicle recreational use of the Oceano Dunes are two new reports dealing with the future of the beach park. The thick stacks of paper add fuel to continuing arguments over vehicles and Arroyo Grande Creek, and throw a wrench into the entire funding mechanism for the off-highway vehicle area.…
Earthquake aftershocks
The San Luis Obispo City Council is hoping to encourage downtown building owners to retrofit for earthquake safety sooner rather than later. On a 4-1 vote with Mother’s Tavern owner and councilmember Paul Brown dissenting the council decided on Jan. 9 to support the Chamber of Commerce’s system for ranking the hazardousness of 67 nonretrofitted…
One bad surge deserves no others
One classic example of insanity is to endlessly repeat the same behavior expecting a different result. Well, President George Bush doesn’t appear to be insane, but he does appear to be extremely foolish. Just recently we completed Operation Forward Together, which was a surge of U.S. troops in Baghdad that was to be a joint…
Two fires strike off-campus housing complex
On Jan. 9, firefighters from the San Luis Obispo City Fire Department responded just before 9 p.m. to a fire at a three-story housing complex near Cal Poly the second fire there in as many nights. In both cases, more than 100 people were evacuated from 1050 Foothill Blvd. without injury or incident, according to…
