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Hindsight is twenty-twenty, but it’s illuminating to look back at measures taken by our local governments when the threats of the coronavirus were aired on the national media. Mayor Steve Martin talked about the issues in early March of last year. Two days later, the Paso Robles city council called a special meeting. Their focus,…
So where did covid come from? A joint World Health Organization and China study indicates that the transmission of the virus from bats to humans passed through another animal. They say it is extremely unlikely that the spread came from a laboratory leak, as some have speculated. The team studying the origins of covid are…
The San Luis Obispo county health department out with its Monday report on coronavirus in the county. They say there were only 31 new positive cases in the county over the 3-day weekend. The city of San Luis Obispo again leading the way with 12 new cases. Seven cases reported in Atascadero, five in Paso…
March is going out like a lamb in the north county, but early April looks even warmer. Forecasters saying we’ll see sunny skies and temperatures in the mid 80’s by Thursday. It will cool off into the low 70’s this weekend, and upper 60’s early next week. About 20-25% chance of rain Tuesday and Wednesday…
Sunny in the north county, highs near 81. Northerly winds 5-10 miles per hour. Clear skies tonight, lows near 39. NNW winds 10-15 miles per hour. Tomorrow, sunny and warm, highs near 81. ENE winds 5-10 miles per hour. The extended forecast calls for mostly sunny through the weekend. Highs in the mid 70’s through…
Week two for most local high school football teams. The Templeton Eagles beat Morro Bay 42-0 to remain undefeated. The Paso Robles Bearcats came from behind to beat San Luis Obispo 29-22. Mission Prep beat Atascadero 56-6. After the final Cross Country meet of the season, the senior athletes lined up for a picture taken…
This week, the city of Paso Robles will finish paving and making improvements to a number of streets in the downtown area. Ditas Esperanza tells KPRL most of the work will be on 6-8th streets between Spring and Pine. They did some paving last week, they’ll be wrapping up this week, and doing striping.
A former Uber driver from Santa Maria was found guilty Friday of 13 felonies for sexually assaulting women on the central coast. Alfonso Alarcon Nunez preyed on young, inebriated women, who were looking for a safe ride home after a night on the town, primarily in San Luis Obispo. He was found guilty of 13…
A fatal hit and run crash in Nipomo Saturday night. Around 11:10 Saturday night, an intoxicated wrong way driver from Santa Maria entered 101 from west Teft street going southbound in the northbound lanes of the freeway. His Chevrolet Tahoe collided with a Honda CR-V driven by a San Jose man. The Honda flipped over…
Declining enrollment at public schools in the north county may cost school district’s millions of dollars. Paso Robles school district Chief Business Officer Brad Pawlowski says the district lost 208 students from last year. The Atascadero school district lost 100 students. By comparison, Lucia Mar school district in the south county lost 344 students. San…
