Under fire, SLO City Manager Whitney McDonald resigning
By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo City Manager Whitney McDonald announced plans to resign between now and mid-January during a city council meeting on Tuesday. McDonald is hoping to pursue a career in psycho therapy. “After a lot of deep reflection, I have some bitter sweet news to convey,” McDonald...
One person died in E. coli outbreak in San Luis Obispo County
By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo County Public Health confirmed on Nov. 10 a death tied to the E. coli outbreak linked to a pumpkin farm. In late October, five San Luis Obispo County residents tested positive for E. coli after visiting Brookshire Farms off Los Osos Valley Road. Among...
Nearly 9,000 PG&E customers in SLO County without power
By KAREN VELIE Nearly 9,000 PG&E customers in northern San Luis Obispo County are without power on Tuesday evening. At 5:35 a.m., 8,962 PG&E customers lost power from northern Paso Robles through Creston and parts of Santa Margarita. This is an unplanned outage. PG&E estimates the power will be restored...
Deputies investigating suspicious death in Guadalupe
By KAREN VELIE Santa Barbara County sheriff deputies are investigating the death of a man whose body was found near the gazebo area of the Veterans Memorial in Guadalupe on Monday morning. Shortly before 2 a.m., a caller reported a man down on the 800-block of Guadalupe Street. Guadalupe police...
Driver gets Porsche stuck on train tracks in San Luis Obispo
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A driver made a wrong turn and got a Porsche stuck on the railroad tracks near Cal Poly Saturday night, resulting in the car getting towed. The driver mistook the markings at the railroad crossing on Foothill Boulevard at California Boulevard, turned onto the tracks and got...
What landed 25 half-marathon runners in Santa Barbara in hospitals?
By KAREN VELIE The Santa Barbara Police Department is investigating why 25 runners who participated in a half-marathon race on Sunday were admitted to local hospitals. As of Monday morning, medical staff has discharged 18 of the runners. Doctors are working to determine if the illnesses were heat related or...
Crowing over Tuesday’s wins
By DELL FRANKLIN Editor’s Note: The following series, “Life in Radically Gentrifying Cayucos by the Sea,” to be posted biweekly includes the notes, thoughts, and opinions of an original American voice: author Dell Franklin. Franklin’s latest book – “Hitchhiking, A Destiny” – is currently on Amazon. Was I glued to...
