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Girl Scout Troop 40021 of Morro Bay recently held its Court of Awards ceremony to honor five Girl Scouts with Bronze and Silver Awards &#x97; the highest awards given to Junior and Cadette Girl Scouts respectively.</p> <p>Kayleigh Boardman and Fiona Reams, both sixth-graders at Los Osos Middle School, received the Bronze Award. <p>Their project included earning money to purchase flag ceremony equipment for the Estero Pine service unit and participating in an instructional video.</p> <p>Lillian Sandoval, pictured right, and Cassidy Orszag, pictured left, both 10th-graders at Morro Bay High School, won Silver Awards.</p> <p>Their project included producing a training video and conducting training workshops.</p> <p>In addition to earning a Silver Award, Lillian also received her Bronze Award for developing a program for troops to honor their leaders on Leader Appreciation Day.</p>

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Local

Dave Robertson, owner of Centrally Grown, walks the grounds of the soon-to-open store and cafe Jan. 7.

Centrally Grown market and cafe to open in Cambria

The former Hamlet Restaurant at Exotic Gardens in Cambria finally is morphing into Centrally Grown, a specialty market, casual café and bar, catering service and garden nursery filled with edibles.

Sports

Former Cal Poly standout Schlemer honored by German league

Former Cal Poly basketball player and Santa Maria native Molly Schlemer was named Player of the Week for Germany by Eurobasket.com on Tuesday after a 35-point, 14-rebound performance for ChemCats Chemnitz in a game against Oberhausen on Saturday.

Business

Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo.

Sierra Vista hospital reorganizes nursing division

Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center recently announced that it has reorganized its nursing division under the leadership of Chief Nursing Officer Kim Brown Sims.

Opinion

Atascadero's email policy requires employees to decide if an email is a public record that should be printed out, or just routine correspondence that can be deleted. Tribune reporter Tonya Strickland combs through city files in search of emails pertaining to negotiations between Atascadero and Wal-Mart.

A note to agencies: Keep emails

Consider the email: In many situations, it has replaced the memo, the letter, even the phone conversation. That’s why it is critically important for governments at every level to retain email correspondence, just as they would preserve letters...

Entertainment

Singer Roberta Flack performs Feb. 4 at the Performing Arts Center in San Luis Obispo.

Roberta Flack, singing in SLO, on her big musical break

Singer Roberta Flack, performing in San Luis Obispo, talks about her musical roots, her famous neighbors and her breakout hit song, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."

Living

Big Sur Bars are available in three flavors: original, Blind Date and Orange Zest.

3 energy bar companies with SLO County roots

Looking for a healthy snack? Try an energy bar from Benefit Foods, Big Sur Bars or VegThisWay, three companies with a San Luis Obispo County connection.

State

A page from the Waze app is seen in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. A sheriffs&#x2019; organization is broadening its concerns about the popular Waze mobile traffic app. Now it says a feature that lets drivers warn others about nearby police cruisers not only presents a threat to police safety from potential cop-killers, it also interferes with the ability to write speeding tickets.

Sheriffs expand concerns about Waze mobile traffic app

Sheriffs said Wednesday that Google's popular Waze traffic app is making it harder to nab speeders, adding to earlier police complaints that a feature in the software that lets drivers warn others about nearby police activity is putting officers' ... 9 minutes ago

Nation/World

Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch, President Barack Obama's choice to run the Justice Department, is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. If confirmed, Lynch would replace Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation in September after leading the Justice Department for six years. She is now the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. This is the first nomination hearing under the new Republican majority.

Attorney general nominee Lynch holds her own at Senate hearing

Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch maneuvered deftly through her confirmation hearing Wednesday, pledging to retain her independence and restore some frayed relations on Capitol Hill.