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After sparking in early July, and swiftly burning through tens of thousands of acres, the Madre fire was reported to be at 100% containment. Los Padres national forest officials confirmed this yesterday, saying the fire burned a total of 80,799 acres. One structure was destroyed, another was damaged, and two firefighters were injured. Although the…
Throughout the month of August, any donations made to Woods Humane Society will be doubled. Woods announced this yesterday, saying that a fund from the Community Foundation San Luis Obispo county and another anonymous donor will match donations made to Woods, up to 25 thousand dollars, for the whole month of August. Woods says this…
Atascadero’s Cruisin’ Weekend returns in August, on the 15th and 16th. Friday, August 15th will kick off with the 32nd annual Hot El Camino Cruise Nite, with 350 local cruisers from the 1950’s and 60’s coming to downtown Atascadero from across California. These vehicles will cruise up and down El Camino Real from Curbaril to…
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s dining program recently received two awards for excellence by the National Association of College & University Food Services. Cal Poly received these awards in the association’s national awards conference in Salt Lake City on July 11th. The first award, according to Cal Poly, is for innovative dining program of the…
California highway patrol officers received a report yesterday afternoon, at approximately 1:42 pm, of a two vehicle crash on highway 46 east at McMillan Canyon road. Upon arrival, CHP found that a 17-year-old juvenile was driving a 1998 lexus sedan, and a female adult was driving a 2015 toyota highlander. The juvenile was driving northbound…
In collaboration with the county fire department, the San Luis Obispo city fire department has scheduled a prescribed burn to take place at a structure within city limits. The burn will take place over two weeks at 468 Stanford drive, with building preparation occurring from July 28th through the 31st. The actual burns will be…
Saturday morning, just before noon, around 1,700 PG&E customers were hit with a power outage. The outage affected residents east of highway 101, between Atascadero and Creston. The outage affected areas from Feenstra road to Gravel road, Rancho La Loma Linda, and Rocky road. Power was eventually restored as of 1:50 pm to customers, but…
The Paso Robles city council announced they will be discussing food truck regulations in their next meeting Tuesday, August 5th at 6 pm. The city invites the public to attend this discussion, where staff will present an overview of the current operational and permitting requirements for food trucks. The public is also encouraged to provide…
The Paso Robles Area Groundwater Authority has released parcel-level water consumption data on its website: pasoroblesaga.org. Parcel owners are encouraged to review their parcel data in the documents by locating their field ID number using the Google earth parcel data, and viewing the corresponding crop and consumptive data from this ID number. PRAGA says this…
In what the district attorney’s office believes is the first time in San Luis Obispo county, three juries have convicted three defendants in the same courtroom. The DA’s office announced this yesterday afternoon: 32-year-old Tremaine Quincy Tejon Jones, 30-year-old Diante Murphy, and 32-year-old Heather Lynne Hunt were all convicted by three separate juries for sex…
