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City Amends Harbor Hut Lease

The Harbor Hut Restaurant in Morro Bay has been granted a lease extension after completing nearly a million dollars in repairs and improvements. Submitted photo. The City of Morro Bay has amended the lease of one of the longest running and most elegant restaurants on The Embarcadero, after the leaseholders completed nearly a million dollars worth of improvements and repairs, with a quarter million more promised in the future.

Morro Bay, CA · 2d

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Blessings for St. Josephs Rectory Project

Here’s a rendering of the design of the new Rectory by the architectural firm, Isaman Design of Cayucos. Submitted photo. A century-old parish in Cayucos is preparing for the future and building a new facility to house the parish priests and build housing for retired priests. Congregants of St....

Cayucos, CA · 2d

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Our Stories: The Q Inn Celebrates Veterans Day All Year Long

Joan & John Solu at The Q Inn, Main Street, Morro Bay. Photo provided by Joan Solu. This year November 11 is Veteran’s Day during America’s 250th. It is also the 85th anniversary since Morro Bay’s Amphibious Training Base dedication. Veteran’s Day is also known as Remembrance Day and certainly the appropriate time for Morro Bay to reflect on our local beginnings. Did you know before World War II Morro Bay had 400 residents? After WWII we grew to over 2,800 and over time our community has held steady at 10,000 except when our hotels, inns and B&Bs inflate our numbers attracting guests for the betterment of Morro Bay’s local businesses.

Morro Bay, CA · 2d

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Up to 4.4 Inches of Rain and Significant Sierra Snow Could Soak Redding, San Francisco, and San Luis Obispo as Wetter Pattern Arrives

SAN FRANCISCO — A wetter pattern is looking more likely across California over the next two weeks. Pacific storms and possible atmospheric rivers could bring several rounds of rain and mountain snow. The biggest concern for heavy rain is across Northern and Central California. Some forecast data shows up to 4.4 inches of rain near Redding over the period.

San Francisco, CA · 2d

San Luis Obispo Tribune

‘I'm destroyed.' Owner speaks on E. coli outbreak that shut down SLO County farm

After the San Luis Obispo County Department of Public Health linked Brookshire Farms to an E. coli outbreak that resulted in five confirmed cases and three children in intensive care, co-owner Shawn Callaway is still trying to get to the bottom of what went wrong. “I’m destroyed,” he said on Friday — the first day the farm was open to the public after shutting down for 10 days during peak pumpkin season. In the wake of the Shiga toxin-producing E. coli outbreak, Brookshire Farms voluntarily closed and found itself in the center of a media firestorm. Callaway’s phone kept buzzing with interview requests from CNN, USA Today, People magazine and other news outlets across the country. Meanwhile, one of their employees stood at the farm’s entrance to turn away families trying to visit the pumpkin patch. “We’ve gone through ... about 11 days now of numbness. I can’t explain it,” Callaway told The Tribune. “I mean, the worries, the fears, the concerns, the ups and downs. I mean, how do you explain it? I don’t know.” Safety has always been their top priority for both their customers and employees, he said. After working as a firefighter for 36 years, he's

San Luis Obispo County, CA · 1d

San Luis Obispo Tribune

‘A sin to God': Pismo Beach candidate accused of harassing trick-or-treaters

A candidate for Pismo Beach mayor is being accused of screaming at children trick-or-treating at her Shell Beach home, even calling one of them a “sin to God.” When Pismo Beach resident Katt Winter took her three kids out for trick-or-treating on Halloween, she didn’t expect to encounter mayoral candidate Shelby Bowen, much less hear the candidate condemn her child, she told The Tribune. Winter and her kids — a pair of 12-year-old twins and 16-year-old River — were greeted by Bowen at the first house they stopped at while trick-or-treating in the neighborhoods near Dinosaur Caves Park, as they have for the past decade. River, an autistic transgender girl, said she was taken aback when Bowen offered her a Christian pamphlet along with candy. When she declined to accept the pamphlet — titled “ A Pumpkin Tale ” by Christin Ditchfield — the situation escalated, River said. “She grabbed me ... very firmly, and forced the pamphlet into my trick-or-treat bag that I was using to transport candy,” River said. “She was telling the little kids, like 5-year-old girls, to vote for her, and she said to little kids that ‘You have met the mayor.’” River said Bowen also

Pismo Beach, CA · 1d

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Paso Robles Man Convicted on 24 Counts, Faces Hundreds of Years in Prison

A San Luis Obispo County jury convicted a 33-year-old Paso Robles man on 24 felony counts tied to the sexual abuse of three children and the rape of a young woman, following a 19-day trial and a single day of deliberations. Jose Manuel Venturagarcia was found guilty on Wednesday, with prosecutors saying the abuse unfolded over more than four years and reached victims he knew through family and neighborhood connections.

Paso Robles, CA · 2d

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Baywood School to be Replaced

Rendering by RRM Design shows what the new Baywood School’s entrance would look like. Submitted photo. aywood Elementary School in Los Osos is being reborn, as the San Luis Coastal Unified School District works through plans to build a whole new school on the existing property. Part of the...

Los Osos, CA · 2d

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Cambria Artifacts Gallery to Close After Three Decades

Artifacts Gallery in Cambria will close its brick-and-mortar location on Jan. 3, 2027. Photo submitted. A retail space featuring both local talent and national artists in the commercial heart of Cambria will shutter its doors after more than three decades. Artifacts Gallery, located at 775 Main Street, known for a...

Cambria, CA · 2d

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Going Broke; SLOHS Students Are Eating Out Everyday For Lunch

Every day, the front gate sees swarms of students eagerly heading out for their daily lunch break. Photo courtesy to junior Taya Corpuz-Carr. As the minutes tick by in third period, San Luis Obispo High School students are waiting to be released for their daily lunch break. Looking to restore...

San Luis Obispo, CA · 2d

Paso Robles Daily News

School district issues updated statements on credit card expenditures

District says questioned purchases were donor-funded events and official travel. – Paso Robles Joint Unified School District Superintendent Jennifer Loftus and Board President Joel Peterson on Friday issued updated statements responding to recent reporting on district credit card expenditures, according to a district news release. The district said the reporting...

San Luis Obispo Tribune

SLO County vehicle crash causes traffic jam on Highway 101

A vehicle crash caused a traffic jam on southbound Highway 101 near Shell Beach on Friday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol. A white Nissan and a silver Toyota Tacoma crashed on southbound Highway 101 near the Shell Beach Road on-ramp at about 3:29 p.m., the CHP traffic log said. Both vehicles were blocking the No. 1 lane of the highway as of 3:30 p.m. The CHP did not yet know if the crash had caused injuries. Traffic slowed to a crawl on southbound Highway 101 heading toward Pismo Beach after the crash, a Caltrans traffic camera showed.

Pismo Beach, CA · 2d

San Luis Obispo Tribune

This CA ballot measure is bad news for local communities. Luckily, it's losing | Opinion

With 14 measures on the California ballot, it was understandably hard to keep them all straight — especially with the billionaire tax hogging the spotlight. That may be why Proposition 43 didn’t generate the attention it deserved, given that out of all the ballot measures, it arguably had the greatest potential to affect the everyday lives of nearly all Californians. Prop. 43 aimed to make it much harder to pass local taxes. It proposed raising the approval threshold from a simple majority to two-thirds — which is nearly impossible to meet. (Taxes placed on the ballot by local governments already require a super-majority to pass. Prop. 43 supporters wanted to extend that mandate to citizen-sponsored tax measures.) As of Thursday afternoon, Prop. 43 was failing by more than 10%, according to the Secretary of State website . That’s a relief. Citizen-sponsored taxes help fund critical services like fire prevention, police protection, flood control, hospitals, water and sewer plants and road maintenance. They make it possible for cities and towns to keep libraries open, playing fields mowed and recreation programs running. In short, they provide the stop-gap funds that state and federal governments can’t — or won’t — supply. Many local

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Neighbor dispute in San Luis Obispo sparks standoff, evacuations and arrest

San Luis Obispo police officers arrested a man on Thursday who allegedly battered a female neighbor and vandalized her car. Police evacuated multiple homes, including one functioning as a daycare, prior to taking the suspect into custody. At about 2:30 p.m., 911 callers reported a neighbor dispute that turned physical...

San Luis Obispo, CA · 2d

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4 School Administrators Accused of Misusing $70,000 in Funds on Winery, Brewery Visits and More

Four school administrators in Paso Robles, California, have been accused of misappropriating school funds, spending an alleged $70,000 on personal purchases including dinners, winery visits and more. In a lengthy investigative report from Cal Coast News, Superintendent Jennifer Loftus, Chief Business Officer and Assistant Superintendent Brad Pawlowski, Assistant Superintendent of Education Services Erin Haley and […]

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Pediatrician launches new SLO County practice - and she makes house calls

Parents looking for a pediatrician for their kids have a new at-home care option — and it’s the first of its kind in San Luis Obispo County. When Dr. Ashley Landsman first moved to the area after completing medical school at Texas A&M, she didn’t expect to be running her own practice, much less one where she’s the sole employee. Earlier this summer, Dr. Landsman launched Poppy Pediatrics , San Luis Obispo County’s first direct primary pediatric care clinic. Dr. Landsman said the idea of a pediatric care service that would provide in-home care and extended meetings with patients and parents came to her during her three-year tenure at Bravo Pediatrics , one of San Luis Obispo County’s largest private pediatric practices. “I loved my patients, loved the people I worked with, and then ultimately found that I was not having enough time with the patients I was seeing, which is kind of what you hear everywhere,” Dr. Landsman said. “I think it just became more personal as I had my own kids, and I realized, ‘Oh man, parents have so many more questions than this 15-minute visit allows.’” Through her home visit model, those visits are now closer to

San Luis Obispo County, CA · 10h

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Annual Garagiste Festival returns to Paso Robles

Community members had the opportunity to try hundreds of local wines at the Garagiste Festival. Dozens of Paso Robles winemakers participated in the grand tasting, pouring over 200 wines.

San Luis Obispo Tribune

SLO County still plans to seek bids for ambulance contract - but uncertainty looms

Dozens of local paramedics, fire and public health officials packed San Luis Obispo County’s government building on Tuesday to watch supervisors receive an update on its ambulance services contract. Many in the crowd called for the county to drop its current plan to move forward with a competitive bidding process for ground emergency ambulance transport — a process that could result in San Luis Ambulance losing the contract its held since 1945. San Luis Ambulance paramedic Chad Robertson compared the provider to the beating heart of the community’s public health and safety community. “I’m not suggesting our EMS system is perfect or shouldn’t evolve, but there’s a difference between improving a system and disrupting relationships that have made it successful,” Robertson said during nearly an hour of public comment. “Like the human body, when the heart and all those systems are working together, you just don’t disrupt the balance without a very good reason.” For the first time in October 2025, the SLO County Board of Supervisors voted to launch a request-for-proposal process for ground medical transport. Requests for proposals, or RFPs, are a common government practice in San Luis Obispo County with the county frequently putting contracts out to

San Luis Obispo County, CA · 15h

San Luis Obispo Tribune

Paso Robles composer created Olympics theme, ‘Deadpool Rap.' Now he has a local project

Once Paso Robles native Todd Andrew let go of his perfectionism, his music career took off. Now the composer is best known for the creation of NBC’s Tokyo Olympics theme song, the Honda Sports Desk Update on NBC and the “Deadpool Rap” — a song featured in the 2016 Marvel movie. But Andrew told The Tribune that these works don’t represent him — they are strictly his “functional” art, or what pay the bills. “You have to treat it like a job,” he said. “You wake up at the same time every day … you do your work … you clock out … you don’t make too much of a deal out of it.” But he’s also got a side gig that fuels his passion — and it’s one locals might recognize. Andrew’s art of ‘not thinking too much’ Andrew grew up in Paso Robles starting in the fifth grade. In high school, he said he wanted to be Eddie Van Halen. After graduating, he ventured to Los Angeles, where he discovered the world of television composing, which he liked because he could sit at his own house and not have to tour, he said. The composer returned to Paso

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