Four fires broke out last Saturday in the Salinas riverbed near Paso Robles. Mayor Steve Martin says it appears all four fires were started by homeless people camping in the riverbed. The fires were not spontaneous combustion. The good guys in the story, however, are the goats that consumed a lot of the vegetation earlier…
Sunny though the weekend with highs inching up into the mid 90’s by Sunday. Then it will cool off again Tuesday. It’s beginning to look a lot like summer in the north county.
Jaime Umphenour is the host of “Sound-Off”, the longest running talk show on the Central Coast. She brings to the show an eclectic range of guests from Authors to Artists, business owners to politicians, and everyone in between. Tune in to Sound Off every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Today’s guests: *Larry Klayman –…
Mostly sunny today, highs near 90. WSW winds 10-20 miles per hour. Tonight, mostly clear skies, lows near 55. NW winds 10-15 miles per hour. Tomorrow, sunny skies and warmer, highs near 94. WNW winds 10-20 miles per hour. The extended forecast calls for sunny skies thru the weekend. High temperatures climbing into the low…
Rafael Nadal won a close match with American Taylor Fritz of San Diego. The 24-year-old Fritz beat Nadal earlier this year at Indian Wells. But Nadal rose to the occasion in the final game to advance to the semi-finals. The good news for Fritz, his girlfriend received more exposure in social media. Morgan Riddle is…
Will you be receiving that one thousand dollar check from the state for inflation relief? The inflation relief bill authorized the so called, “middle class tax refund.” You are eligible if you made up to $250 thousand dollars when you filed your tax return in 2020. For a joint return, the upper limit is one…
That house fire Monday in San Miguel displaced 15 family members of the Abel Gonzales Vazquez family. It started with fireworks outside, which Gonzalez Vazquez were not his family’s fireworks. The family included two adults and their six children. Seven extended family members also lived in the house. A teacher at Lilian Larson elementary school…
The man who died in the car crash Monday near San Miguel, died by suicide. That’s according to the California Highway Patrol. The San Luis Obispo county sheriff’s department has not released the name of the victim. He was traveling SB on 101 Monday afternoon when a Cal Fire arson investigator initiated a traffic stop…
Speaking of political campaigns, did you see the TV spot governor Gavin Newsom ran this week on Florida television? So if he’s running for re-election as governor in California, why is the governor running campaign ads in Florida? Newsom’s gubernatorial campaign spent $104 thousand dollars running those TV spots in Florida. The dinner at the…
It’s now a two man race for supervisor in the newly drawn second district. Incumbent Bruce Gibson, who worked in the oil industry before becoming a career politician. And Dr. Bruce Jones, a retired orthopedic surgeon who served as chair on the Templeton Advisory Group, which works with the county on land use issues in…
