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Paso Robles Daily News
April 27, 2018
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The San Luis Obispo Tribune
April 27, 2018
One of San Luis Obispo County's oldest watering holes is back in business. Sweet Springs Saloon in Los Osos re-opened its doors March 13 after an extensive remodel that included new bathrooms, new wood flooring, exposed ceiling beams and a more open-feeling bar area. Starting Friday, the bar isÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
April 27, 2018
The Holland Family Alliance committee has become the largest economic influence in the current San Luis Obispo County election in the three months since it was formed. It has more money in the bank than any single candidate committee and has contributed more money to the election than any otherÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
April 27, 2018
During a progress hearing Thursday for five San Luis Obispo County Jail inmates who were ordered months ago to be treated at a state hospital before their criminal cases can proceed, Judge Ginger Garrett scheduled a hearing May 10 for the Department of State Hospitals to show cause why it shouldn'tÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
April 26, 2018
Bill Monning and Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham that would give San Luis Obispo County the full $85 million settlement for economic mitigation initially proposed by PG&E in its plans to shutter Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant by 2025. Newsom, the former San Francisco mayor, has 21 percentÃâà...
KCBX
April 26, 2018
In November of 2016, Monterey County voters passed Measure Z. That's a citizen's initiative to ban hydraulic fracturing and limit new oil drilling within the county's borders. Seven other California counties have similar bans. Now residents in San Luis Obispo County are hoping to qualify their ownÃâà...
KEYT
April 26, 2018
"People suffering from mental illness that come in on criminal charges and get them into treatment right away and without the facility and without the room and space dedicated to that, it makes it very difficult," said San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson. "They're sitting in a jail environment withoutÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
April 24, 2018
Last year, 1,249 people in the county were diagnosed with the disease that spreads through bodily fluids. That's up from the 778 number of people diagnosed with chlamydia six years earlier. "The numbers just keep going up," said Ann McDowell, an epidemiologist with the San Luis Obispo County PublicÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune (blog)
March 30, 2018
In the 1960s as the lake filled, the siren call of recreation drew thousands to the new lake, but there were few facilities. The scene was chaotic. A crisis was at hand by March 3, 1966, when the San Luis Obispo County Planning Commission revoked temporary campsite permits. The Telegram-Tribune wroteÃâà...
A-Town Daily News
March 30, 2018
The initiative is sponsored by the Coalition to Protect San Luis Obispo County, a group of local volunteers working to protect local water, air and soil from pollution while encouraging a shift toward renewable energy, as called for in the county's General Plan. “Today marks another important step forwardÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 30, 2018
The storms brought enough water to downgrade a portion of San Luis Obispo County from severe drought status to moderate drought status, according to a U.S. Drought Monitor map released on Thursday. A small section in the northwest corner of the region is not experiencing drought conditions and isÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 30, 2018
Mountain lion sightings (or suspected sightings) in SLO County are more common than many people may know. More than 100 were reported to local law enforcement agencies in the last few years, though many are unconfirmed. Hikers see them on Bishop Peak, students report sightings near Cal Poly,Ãâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 30, 2018
A new $1.2 million facility three years in the making is set to open Sunday to serve people before their mental health crisis reaches the level of an emergency. The facility comes on line as San Luis Obispo County continues to expand its behavioral health services. County Health officials expect the newÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 29, 2018
Large donations to the campaign to re-elect Sheriff Ian Parkinson quadrupled following the release of video showing the restraint and death of inmate Andrew Holland at the County Jail, public records show. Parkinson is seeking a third term as sheriff and is being challenged by Greg Clayton, a former SanÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 28, 2018
The Tribune and many citizens have questioned my actions and statements regarding Andrew Holland's tragic death. I have sincerely attempted to address the issues fully and factually. My department is also cooperating fully with the FBI's investigation, which I formally requested. But I realize my effortsÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 28, 2018
Often, they prey on deer in the large open spaces of the county, including on the 900-acre Pismo Preserve owned by The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County. Trail cameras there and on the privately owned Santa Margarita Ranch have picked up dozens of photos of the wild cats. “They can beÃâà...
KCBX
March 27, 2018
San Luis Obispo County's public works department is looking at changing the boundary of the Los Osos Valley Groundwater Basin, considered by the state to be in critical overdraft. That means the state's recent groundwater management law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA),Ãâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 25, 2018
One of the hallmarks of the March For Our Lives movement is its leadership from students themselves, and San Luis Obispo County youths were no different. Jira, now a senior at Atascadero High School, was one of several students speaking at the rally preceding the march. He said he turned up SaturdayÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 25, 2018
Average rainfall amounts at the Paso Robles Municipal Airport, Cal Poly — home of climatology for San Luis Obispo — and the Santa Maria Public Airport all dropped to approximately 27 percent of average at the end of February. The 2018 rainfall season was on track to be one of the driest on record, andÃâà...
KEYT
March 24, 2018
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - Authorities in San Luis Obispo County will be conducting a large-scale search operation for missing at-risk woman, Kristen Marti on Sunday, March 25, 2018. SLO police along with the SLO County Sheriff's Search and Rescue team will be searching the area of Prefumo CanyonÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 24, 2018
Primary elections are a bit like the NBA playoffs — they don't generate nearly as much buzz as the finals. But in San Luis Obispo County, it would be a huge mistake to underestimate the importance of the upcoming June 5 primary election. At least six county offices — including District 4 supervisor, sheriffÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 23, 2018
Authorities rescued 10 people from the Salinas River in Paso Robles on Thursday as heavy rainfall continued across San Luis Obispo County, causing more flooding, car crashes and rock slides on the North Coast. While the Central Coast experienced one of the highest 24-hour rainfall totals sinceÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 23, 2018
Rain pummeled San Luis Obispo County on Thursday, flooding roads and leading to car crashes. Here is a list of all reportedly flooded or closed roads and crashes, according to the California Highway Patrol, Caltrans and San Luis Obispo County Public Works, and other government agencies across theÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 22, 2018
Crews have cleared the scene involving a single pickup truck at a crash that occurred overnight on Highway 41 at Los Altos. Later Wednesday, a woman was killed in a weather-related car crash on Highway 41 west of Atascadero, according to the California Highway Patrol. The woman — who investigatorsÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 22, 2018
Highway 1 at Ragged Point was closed Wednesday morning because of a rockslide, the California Highway Patrol reported. It is the second slide along San Luis Obispo County's North Coast caused by the storm that began Tuesday night. The Ragged Point closure was announced about 7:40 a.m.,Ãâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 22, 2018
A fix is on the way for the deadly Cholame "Y" intersection on Highway 46 thanks to $261 million in state transportation money that was approved Wednesday to repair roads and improve infrastructure in San Luis Obispo County. The California Transportation Commission approved the allocation — whichÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 22, 2018
Correctional deputies at the San Luis Obispo County Jail have been receiving death threats since Friday's release of graphic video showing the death of inmate Andrew Holland, and Holland's family is calling for those threats to stop. The video sparked international outrage at the treatment of Holland, whoÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 21, 2018
Friends of Oceano Dunes says the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District is withholding critical information and misleading the state of California and the general public by hiding data and ignoring potential causes of dust impacting the Nipomo Mesa. In a March 14 letter to the APCD board,Ãâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 21, 2018
A Los Osos woman is suing San Luis Obispo County in federal court after she was denied admission to its psychiatric facility despite being in the midst of a mental health crisis, and instead was left for five days at County Jail where she began hurting herself in an isolation cell. Coral Erin Martin, 20, says jailÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 20, 2018
The shocking video of Andrew Holland's final hours and death at San Luis Obispo County Jail has produced a politically polarized reaction from local officials, with those on the left expressing outrage and those on the right remaining largely silent. Holland, who was suffering from symptoms ofÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
December 31, 1999
There wasn't an empty seat in the house as all three candidates for the District 2 seat on the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors met and traded barbs at a packed candidate forum Friday evening at the Morro Bay Veterans Memorial Building. Though the office is officially non-partisan, challengersÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
December 31, 1999
Pirate's Cove is known for trash, late-night parties, public drunkenness, graffiti, and its disaster crash-course parking lot. Aside from all that, it's also beautifully undeveloped public land and a Native American sacred site. San Luis Obispo County officials say they want to find potential solutions to theÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
December 31, 1999
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office released a statement on its Facebook page Saturday afternoon regarding the in-custody death of Andrew Holland, saying the mental health system failed the former Atascadero resident. The 491-word statement, issued by Sheriff Ian Parkinson, states that HollandÃâà...
