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The California Highway Patrol announced they will be entering its Thanksgiving maximum enforcement period. The MEP starts at 6 pm on Wednesday, November 27th, and will go through Monday, December 1st. All available CHP officers will be patrolling to ensure safe driving, and ensuring seatbelts are buckled. CHP says during last year’s Thanksgiving MEP, 1,047…
The county assessor’s office has released its 2024 annual report for property values in San Luis Obispo county. For 2024, there was a county-wide increase in assessed property value by 5.03%, a total of around 74 billion dollars from over 186 thousand assessments. The report says almost a majority of this change came from changes…
The California Highway Patrol released a statement on Friday November 22nd, regarding a traffic collision that took place the evening of November 21st. The two vehicle crash occurred on the southbound US 101 at the Wellsona road intersection. A driver of a ford f-450 towing a horse trailer attempted to cross the intersection eastbound, traveling…
A reminder that there is no Atascadero city council meeting scheduled for this week. According to the city council meeting schedule, the Atascadero city council has only one remaining meeting this year: December 10, 2024.
The El Camino Homeless Organization announced they have received a five thousand dollar donation through Spectrum’s employee community grants. Spectrum is a suite of advanced communications services offered by Charter Communications, Inc., which provides services to 41 states in the US. The Spectrum employee community grants has distributed more than 1.5 million dollars to nearly…
55-year-old Michelle Morrow is scheduled to be sentenced in January for charges of filing false nomination or declaration papers and fraudulent voting. The county district attorney’s office says this is part of a plea deal Morrow made on Monday the 18th, where charges of voter registration fraud and perjury will be dropped. Morrow was a…
The county clerk-recorder’s office released its latest unprocessed ballot report and election results on Saturday, November 23rd. According to the latest election results, none of the races for Paso Robles, Atascadero, and Templeton school district or city council races have seen significant changes. All candidates who are ahead remain so by significant margins. In the…
On April 12, 2022, a Pismo Beach police officer, corporal Chris Siglin, attempted a patrol stop on a van driven by 50-year-old Charles Nelson Ammons. After refusing to stop the van, Ammons attempted to fire a handgun at Siglin when the officer pulled his motorcycle next to the van, but no bullets were fired due…
With a grant from the San Luis Obispo county fire safe council, Paso Fire & Emergency Services says they will be addressing overgrowth in drainages near developed areas. Crews will be working to remove fallen trees and brush accumulating beneath living trees, particularly along Union road and areas off north River road. This serves to…
The county district attorney’s office announced that 36-year-old Nathan Abate has been found guilty of three counts of sexual assault against two victims. The crimes, according to the DA’s office, occurred between 2009 and 2012. The jury in Abate’s trial was presented with evidence that demonstrated “A clear and consistent pattern of sexual abuse by…
