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Pacific Wildlife Care faces record influx of starving seabirds
Kelley Boland has seen plenty of common murres during her years at Pacific Wildlife Care, but never anything like this. “This is the most common-murre pulse into the clinic that we’ve ever seen,” Boland, the nonprofit’s development coordinator, told New Times. “We saw a big pulse of common murres that’s sort of similar to this back in 2015, which was another El Niño year. But this is far beyond what we saw back then.”…
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Former TAAG chair jailed early as advisory group faces dissolution
Former Templeton Area Advisory Group (TAAG) Chair David Leader began serving his 30-day jail sentence nearly three weeks early after admitting to two violations of his felony probation. Leader, 71, was taken into custody on Oct. 8, despite originally being scheduled to report to San Luis Obispo County Jail on Oct. 31. Meanwhile, the county Board of Supervisors is scheduled to consider dissolving TAAG on Oct. 20, following a series of resignations that have left the…
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Grover Beach Sourdough reopens with a new café attached to its bakery
Sitting at a table by the window inside Grover Beach Sourdough, Jacob and Brooke Town can still see the site of their former restaurant across the street. In an unexpected, bittersweet turn of events, the owners had to close The Spoon Trade one year ago and…
Alban Vineyards founder John Alban is San Francisco Wine Auction’s Winemaker of the Year
At Alban Vineyards in Arroyo Grande, winemaker John Alban is immersed in the daily grind of harvest season, covered in grape skins and yeast while monitoring daily operations. He swapped his work clothes for formal attire to attend the 49th annual San Francisco Wine Auction at…
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