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Tomorrow night, the Paso Robles school board will conduct a candidates forum at the district office on Niblick road. Budget issues will undoubtedly be a hot topic for the trustees running for re-election and their challengers. In the last three and a half years, the school board has allowed superintendent Chris Williams to spend so…
Mayor Steve Martin gets an endorsement by the editorial board of the Tribune. The Tribune board saying, “Martin knows how to stick up for the people of Paso Robles.” Martin has served as mayor since 2014. He’s being challenged in the November election by city councilman Jim Reed.
Republican congressional candidate Justin Fareed is calling on congressman Salud Carbajal to return $20,000 to a campaign donor who is accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl. Carbajal says he won’t return the money. He says the money comes from a political action committee of which he’s a member, the congressional Hispanic caucus. The chair…
Atascadero city council meets tonight. The city council is expected to authorize a contract with the Wallace Group to provide design engineering services for a pavement rehabilitation project. That Atascadero city council meeting gets underway at 6:00 this evening at the rotunda. You can hear the meeting live here on KPRL beginning at 6:00 this…
Sunny today, highs in the mid 70’s. Tonight, clear with temperatures near 50. Tomorrow, sunny, highs near 70, SW winds 10-20 miles per hour
The Templeton Eagles lost Friday night to Pioneer Valley in a game played in Santa Maria. The Eagles trailed 10-7 at half time, but the Panthers pounced on the Eagles in the second half to prevail 38-21. Friday night, the Templeton Eagles play at Santa Maria high school. The Bearcats lost to Arroyo Grande at…
Last night, a Space X Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Vandenberg air force base. The booster lit up the night sky as it descended, tail first, toward landing zone 4, just a few hundred yards from the rocket’s launch stand. The descent caused some loud sonic booms that rumbled over the central coast and…
Friday morning, Paso Robles police arrested a Paso Robles man for annoying children near Georgia Brown elementary school and drug violations. 43-year-old Jesus Chavarria was arrested on the charge of annoying children as well as being under the influence of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance. Paso Robles police were dispatched to…
The San Luis Obispo county district attorney’s office has filed felony charges against a former bookkeeper for the San Miguel Community Services District. 29-year-old Kallie Leighanne Johnson is accused of embezzling $38 thousand dollars in public funds belonging to the district in 2015.
San Luis Obispo county schools outperformed the state average in standardized testing. In English or language arts, more than 55% scored high enough to meet the state standards. 23% scored higher than the expected standards for their grade level. State-wide, 50% of students tested met or exceeded the literacy requirement. In math, county students did…
