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On Tuesday afternoon, Santa Rosa Academic Academy in Atascadero initiated a lockdown after a student said they witnessed a man with a rifle near the school’s fence line. Police officers arrived to investigate as the school went on lockdown, searching the area and asking questions of the student. The student told officers that they believed…
In its meeting yesterday, the county board of supervisors discussed a services contract for Land IQ, LLC regarding a program for the Paso Robles groundwater basin. Using funds from a state grant, the $298,045 contract would provide the necessary funds for Land IQ, LLC to design the Paso Robles groundwater basin Multi-benefit Irrigated Land Repurposing…
10-07-24 PRHS Students Get Research Paper Accepted for Publication Several local high school students had their scientific paper accepted for publication in the July edition of the Journal of Double Star Observations, according to a release by the school district. The release says this paper was written by Ava Friedling, Jamie Barnet, and Daniel Ventura;…
A PG&E power outage struck the Creston and highway 229 area yesterday evening. At around 7:29 pm, around 1,722 PG&E customers were without power, with the estimated restoration time going into early Tuesday morning. The affected areas were just east of Atascadero along highway 41 to Creston, down to just north of Santa Margarita. The…
Vegetation Fire 10-7-2024 The Paso Robles fire department responded to a report of a vegetation fire Monday afternoon, at around 5:11 pm. The department says the fire was in the Salinas riverbed, adjacent to the highway 101 and 46 east intersection. A release by the Paso Robles fire department says they were able to contain…
The San Luis Obispo County Elections Office, and League of Women Voters, has recognized Morro Bay high school as the winner for the inaugural countywide high school vote registration competition. The competition ran from September 16th to the 30th, challenging high schools across the county to register or pre-register as many of their eligible students…
On Sunday afternoon, at approximately 6 pm, two individuals fell off a cliffside at Cambria’s Fiscalini Ranch Preserve. A family member of these two contacted KPRL news detailing this event: they said a child fell off a 30 foot cliff at the preserve, with the father of the child unable to stop them. The father…
The Atascadero city council’s next meeting is tonight at 6. Tonight’s agenda is a short one, with only two management reports, and two consent items. One of the items would consider raising the Atascadero Tourism Business Improvement District Assessment from 2% to 2.5%. This assessment is levied on lodging businesses within the city as a…
10-08-24 Agenda English The Paso Robles school board’s next meeting is tomorrow night at 6 pm. The board will hold a public hearing regarding the sufficiency of its instructional materials. This public hearing is a requirement for the board to receive funds from the instructional materials realignment fund; the board will determine whether each pupil…
Paso Robles city manager Ty Lewis filed a claim for damages earlier this year, on August 14th, seeking $2,275,000 in compensation for personal injury. Lewis first entered his paid medical leave of absence of August 12th after he nearly fainted in a city council meeting on May 7th. The city denied his claim on September…
