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Behind the music
A musician takes the stage, quickly winning over an audience with musical prowess. As we listen, we lose ourselves in the music, rarely thinking about the instrument upon which the music is made. But someone somewhere made that instrument. For many musicians, that “someone” is actually a team of nameless workers at a factory where…
SLO police relinquish marijuana
On Sept. 21, San Luis Obispo police executed the county’s first return of medical marijuana by court order since patient Donovan No Runner won his property back in 2002. # Cal Poly student Ben Breschini walked into headquarters at the intersection of Santa Rosa and Walnut and left with a bag containing 45.7 grams of…
Swept away
Cal Poly freshman Enrique Jimenez stood on at outcropping of rock at Spooner’s Cove when the set came in. A rogue wave, generated by a powerful south swell, surged past the reef and broke hard on the rocks just after noon on Sept. 22, pulling the 18-year-old San Joaquin Valley native into the ocean. Two…
Fast Facts
Saturday, Sept. 30, is SLO County’s official Creek Clean Up Day. Fall is the perfect time to purge the trash and debris that accumulate in our local waterways, before the winter rains wash it into the ocean. Last year, volunteers collected more than five tons of trash, including bottles, cans, shopping carts, furniture, and appliances.…
Building precedent
Riddle me this, dear reader: Where lies the widest road on earth? Beantown’s infamous Central Artery? The ever-bustling 405 streaming through Los Angeles? Perhaps that imperious and perilous juncture north of Atlanta where I-16 and I-75 collide? Someone with a blue belt in GoogleFu might promptly answer: the infamous 160-lane Monumental Axis in the South…
Letters
This paper is a journalistic disgraceNew Times is unfit to be San Luis Obispo’s weekly newspaper. Your last issue, like most of late, was a journalistic disgrace. One “story” after another belittling people in the community who are fighting uphill battles to try to make it better, or at least to keep it from self-destructing.…
A perfect 10
This October will mark 10 years of alcoholic engineering for Firestone Brewery. With five statewide gold medals this year, two ’06 World Beer Cup titles, and a recent declaration as the “Best Beer in America” by Men’s Health Journal, Firestone Walker has plenty to celebrate. # The Firestone Walker experiment began in 1995, when brothers-in-law…
Ride off into the sunset
Don’t you wish life was more like old Westerns? I do. Not the getting shot in the back and firing your gun into the air before falling off of a big rock part. Or the sounds out in the dark beyond the reach of the campfire part. And I wasn’t too keen on the flaming…
It’s looking like a record year
Score another point for the men in brown. The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Narcotic Unit reported that it seized 5,777 pot plants from an illegal field on the Hearst Ranch Property four miles southeast of the castle earlier this month. No arrests were made. Sheriff’s officials have eradicated approximately 25,000 plants since August. Investigators…
Los Osos CSD remains intact
The often-heated Los Osos sewer debate spilled out of its regular home at the South Bay Community Center and into county supervisor chambers on Sept. 21. Before a healthy crowd of Ososites, the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) mulled over whether to dissolve the bedroom community’s controversial Community Services District. Taxpayer Watch a group objecting…
The battle is on
The race to represent District 2 on the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors continues to heat up as the Nov. 7 election draws closer. Candidates Bruce Gibson and Rodger Anderson are vying for a seat in a district with a reputation for heavy fog, the Los Osos sewer debacle, and the Cayucos viewshed…
Law expert scrutinizes Atascadero policies
The fray over recent possible Records Act violations in Atascadero has prompted a group of city residents to pursue justice through Californians Aware, a nonprofit agency with a focus on holding government officials accountable for their actions. Terry Francke a widely recognized expert on open government laws and First Amendment issues has been called on…
