A New Stage

A proper title for San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre’s $15.2 million capital campaign to build a new state-of-the-art performing arts venue in downtown SLO. The 12,000-square-foot facility will house a 215-seat mainstage theatre and a 100-seat black box theatre. It’s expected to draw 50,000 patrons downtown each year.

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The 38,967-acre-foot Whale Rock Reservoir reached capacity for the first time in some eighteen years, flowing over its spillway in March. This winter’s heavy storms that dumped record rainfall in the area fed the reservoir, which is located on Old Creek Road and serves Cayucos, San Luis Obispo, Cal Poly, and CMC.

Want to know how clean and safe your favorite meal-stop is? The County’s Environmental Health Services website displays recent inspection results online for local restaurants, bars, coffee shops, retail food markets, farm stands, school cafeterias, and more. There’s even an interactive map that lets you view full inspection reports.

The value of eighty-three infrastructure projects currently under construction in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz counties, a historic milestone for CalTrans Central Coast District 5. It includes $116 million to widen Highway 46 East from a twolane divided highway into a four-lane expressway between Shandon and Cholame in SLO County.

California Natural Resources Agency Secretary Wade Crowfoot heard the strong desire for tribal ownership of the property on which Diablo Canyon Power Plant sits at a public meeting held February 10 in San Luis Obispo to discuss the future of the 11,000-acre site.

The number of rallies and events advocating for women’s rights held during the past six years by Women’s March SLO, which in February announced its dissolution. Several other organizations honoring its mission to create a womenfriendly world through education, advocacy, and action have vowed to carry on its work. More than 10,000 people attended the first march in January 2017.

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