Food & Farm News 03.11.2022

San Luis Obispo county has a new wine region. It’s the San Luis Obispo Coast AVA. AVA stands for American Viticultural Area. It was recognized recently by the US Alcohol Tobacco Tax and Trade bureau. The San Luis Obispo Coast AVA joins Paso Robles, Arroyo Grande, Edna Valley and York Mountain. Arroyo Grande joined that…

In Sports 03.11.2022

Cal Poly women’s basketball coach Faith Mimnaugh retires after 25 years. She retires with 338 wins for the Musangs, the greatest number in program history. Second in big west history. A national search is underway to find her successor. The Cal Poly Mustang baseball team hosts Harvard University for a four game series this weekend.…

Atascadero Events This Weekend 03.11.2022

Earlier this week, we mentioned Zoo Trivia, which is 5-8 tomorrow evening at the Charles Paddock Zoo in Atascadero. There’s also an event Sunday afternoon which is new to A-town. Rachelle Rickard says it’s a wine and food event in downtown. For more information, you’re encouraged to go to the website: visitatascadero.com.

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Other Stories This Friday 03.11.2022

Attorneys defending accused murders Paul and Ruben Flores file a change of venue motion late Wednesday. They want to move the Kristin Smart murder trial out of the county because of pretrial publicity. Inflation reaches 7.9% over the past year. It’s the sharpest increase since 1982. And it may be only the beginning. The increase…

SLO Co Covid Update 03.11.2022

The covid pandemic officially began two years ago today. On Wednesday, the San Luis Obispo county health department reports 17 deaths of people with the coronavirus over the past week. Dr. Penny Borenstein does not say if those who died had other health issues. Over the past two years, 470 people with covid died in…

Shelter In Place at Templeton School 03.11.2022

Earlier this week, there were two lockdowns at Templeton middle school because of some kind of threat. Dr. Gene Miller is principal at Templeton middle school. He says there have not been any threats since Tuesday. The sheriff’s department suspects one individual is responsible for both threats early this week. One Monday and another Tuesday.…

Opener For Friday 03.11.2022

Sunny and warm through this weekend in the north county. Highs in the afternoon hours in the low 70’s, then next week we’ll see warmer temperatures. Highs reaching 79 one week from today. Don’t forget this is the weekend to spring forward, so you need to turn your clocks forward by one hour this weekend.…