Nipomo News

Reporting from Nipomo, Calif. - Just a week after several of the highest-profile members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gathered in New York for the hall's 25th anniversary blowout concerts at Madison Square Garden, another member of that elite pack was setting up in a very different environment.

For the past three years, the Nipomo Wine Group has been selling its Phantom Rivers Wine through its wine club and Web site, local wine retailers and a handful of restaurants stretching from Los Angeles to the Bay Area.

When I heard Chris Hillman was recording a live album in Nipomo, I had to ask: "If I go and yell, 'Free Bird!' can I get on the record?" Hillman, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, laughed and obliged me.

Legislation ensuring that absentee ballots cast late in an election by military personnel serving overseas will arrive in time to be counted has been signed into law by President Barack Obama.

Students at three South County high schools might have access to routine medical services on campus starting in January as part of a partnership between a local chain of nonprofit clinics and the Lucia Mar district.

San Luis Obispo County's fastest high school cross country runners were crowned Thursday.

The Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real held its Diocesan Convention 2009 last weekend.

The county Sheriff's Department has 43 unsolved homicide cases, including the March murder of Templeton resident Jerry Greer, from 1967 to today.

The town of Nipomo is a small town with a population barely over 11 thousand people, and in this town there are trees that stretch for miles, they are called Eucalyptus trees.

Info, observations, and other random stuff about San Luis Obispo Real Estate and the local area by The Keith Byrd Team consisting of local experts from Century 21 Hometown Realty.

More than 150 U.S. military veterans pedaled through the Nipomo Mesa on Thursday as part of the Ride 2 Recovery Golden State Challenge.

Last weekend I took a road trip to Nipomo, a small rural town about 200 miles south of Santa Cruz near the border of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties.

In 1932, the photographer Dorothea Lange and her husband, the famed Western illustrator Maynard Dixon, spent the summer on a two thousand acre ranch along the shores of Fallen Leaf Lake near Lake Tahoe.

Three Open Studios Art Tour newcomers will join an event veteran to exhibit their works together in Nipomo during the South County portion of the fundraiser Saturday and Sunday.

Local residents figuratively toasted the arrival of fall Saturday at the 26th Annual Autumn Arts Grapes and Grains Festival, and for many, that toast was made with wine glass in hand.

Food, live music, a beer garden, car show and local vendors and businesses are on tap for the Nipomo Chamber of Commerce's annual October Festival, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Saturday at Nipomo Community Park.

Sheriff's deputies arrested an alleged burglar in Nipomo early Saturday after a homeowner caught him in his garage.

Oggi's Pizza & Brewing Co. 661-252-7883 www.oggis.com Santa Maria Brewing Co. 805-349-2090 112 Cuyama Ln., Nipomo www.santamariabrew.com If you live in Bakersfield you might think you're out of luck when it comes to local beers.

During one Nipomo native's struggle with homelessness, he did everything he could to sleep standing up.

Launch yourself over a bench or table. Toss your body over fences and railings, or if the situation calls for it, soar over rooftops.