The El Camino Homeless Organization raised $43 thousand dollars with its Long Walk Home Saturday in Atascadero. The tenth annual fundraiser described as a success for ECHO, which provides homeless services in both Atascadero and Paso Robles. This is ECHO’s 20th anniversary providing housing, meals and services to the homeless.
Atascadero city council meets tonight. The council will discuss discuss labor agreements and salary schedules for the next few fiscal years. City manager Rachelle Rickard will give a report on recent and upcoming events in the city. She will likely talk about plans for Colony Days coming up Saturday. The parade starts at ten Saturday…
The Paso Robles school board meets tonight at the district office board room. One of the issues they’re working on, how to spend the millions of dollars in the budget surplus created by the closure of the schools during the pandemic. Superintendent Curt Dubost talked about the need to be cautious in spending the budget…
With the CHP helicopter flying over Atascadero and San Miguel over the weekend, it appeared that the north county yesterday, experienced a crime wave. We learn today, it was all just one man- 20-year-old Carlos Chavez of Paso Robles. On Saturday night, a juvenile was robbed of his back pack at gun point in the…
Cooler temperatures today, as September winds down in the north county, but we’ll see it warm up this weekend. Forecasters say we’ll see a warming trend beginning tomorrow, with high temperatures sneaking back into the low 90’s by Sunday. Then, they’ll drop back into the upper 70’s by the middle of next week. Slowly, fall…
The Templeton Eagles celebrated Homecoming by beating the Piedmont Highlanders 15-0 Friday night. The sophomore-laden Eagles improve to 3-2 for the season. Senior Kale Loppnow ran the opening kickoff back 71-yards for a touchdown. The Eagles scored a two-point conversion to take an 8-0 lead in the first fifteen seconds of the game. That early…
More than 40 vintage Volvos visited the North County over the weekend in an event organized by SLO Rolling Central Coast Volvo Club. The Volvos arrived from far away as Texas and Southern California for the Volvo Rally. They ranged from 122s from the early 60’s to the P-1800 two seater, made famous by The…
Another power outage in the north county. PG & E customers in Atascadero are experiencing another power outage. The power reportedly out as of six, Sunday evening. About three thousand PG and E customers we believe to be affected. The company’s website says power was expected to be restored by midnight last night.
A suspect arrested in San Miguel yesterday in a shooting which occurred Saturday afternoon in Paso Robles. The shooting incident occurred shortly after noon Saturday. Paso Robles police received a call about a shooting in the 1000 block of Dorothy street. Police found a 29-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the side of his…
Yesterday morning, Atascadero police responded to a report of an armed robbery on south end of El Camino Real. Specifically, the 10200 block of El Camino. Officers saw the suspect flee on foot into an adjacent apartment complex. Police established a perimeter and asked for assistance from the CHP and county sheriff’s office. Ten police,…
