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It’s Labor Day weekend in the north county. Lion King Day is Saturday at the Charles Paddock Zoo in Atascadero from 10-2 tomorrow. The first 80 kids will get an official Lion King activity booklet. Zoo keeper talks at 10:30 about meerkats, 11:30 about hornbills and 12:30 about bat-eared foxes. In Cambria, it’s Pinedorado this…
This week, we’ve been talking with the parking commander and the parking ambassador about the way the new parking program is going in Paso Robles. For the most part, it’s working well. Fewer people are leaving their cars all day around the downtown city park. There is more parking available and business owners are reporting…
Back to School Night last night at Bauer Speck elementary school in Paso Robles. Some parents expressing concern about the new portable campus and if it is safe and appropriate for their students. So, the school district is scheduling a special campus walk-through on Tuesday at 5:30. Parents can walk through the site with superintendent…
Sunny today with highs near 90. SW winds increasing to 10-20 miles per hour. Tonight, clear with temperatures dropping into the mid 50’s. Tomorrow sunny, but cooler. Highs in the mid 90’s. The long range forecast calls for a warming trend with temperatures back into the upper 90’s over the weekend. Near 100 on Sunday,…
The department of homeland security is diverting $271 million dollars from other federal agencies, like FEMA and the US Coast Guard, to increase the number of beds for detained illegal immigrants at the border. The money will also pay to force asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are adjudicated. House speaker Nancy…
If you park your car in downtown Paso Robles and forget to enter your car license number in one of the kiosks, you may get a $33 ticket in the near future. Parking ambassador Donna King tells KPRL, so far she’s not written any parking tickets. Parking ambassador Donna King has worked eleven years with…
Templeton voters approve a parcel tax to upgrade the Templeton fire department, but county clerk recorder Tommy Gong says the election isn’t yet official. He says there are more ballots to count. Regardless, Templeton fire chief Bill White says he’s ready to move forward with his plans to hire more firefighters in Templeton. He has…
Late yesterday morning, a piece of heavy equipment struck the power lines near 101 south of San Miguel, and brought them down onto the highway near Wellsona road. That occurred just before 11:30 yesterday morning. The lines went across the railroad tracks and onto the highway near Wellsona road. Traffic on SB 101 was diverted…
A head-on collision near the Cholame Y caused two serious injuries and back-up traffic yesterday morning around 7:30. 29-year-old Joey Mcgraw of San Bernardino was traveling westbound on 46, just west of Antelope road when he attempted to pass a tractor-trailer rig. When he realized he didn’t have enough room to pass, he got back…
Another pot bust on the central coast. Thousands of marijuana plants and cannabis products seized at a cultivation site near Santa Maria. The Santa Barbara county sheriff’s departments cannabis compliance team served several search warrants at the grow site east of Santa Maria. Warrants also served at various homes in Santa Maria, Nipomo and the…
