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The San Luis Obispo county behavioral health department announced that they received a 113 thousand dollar grant from the office of traffic safety yesterday. The grant will go to increasing education among young adults about responsible and safe driving, increasing outreach to raise the awareness about the risks of impaired, distracted, unsafe driving. A California…
The Atascadero chamber of commerce is encouraging locals and non-residents to support Atascadero businesses with its shop local bonus program this year. Until December 31st, the Atascadero chamber of commerce will reward a 20 dollar gift card to shoppers who spend a hundred dollars at qualifying businesses. Exclusions include grocery stores, fast food, animal food,…
The Paso Robles Main Street Association’s annual Downtown Lighting Ceremony is set for Friday, November 24th. Gather at the downtown city park bandstand at 5:30 to enjoy an evening of music, speeches, candlelight caroling, coffee and cocoa, and a merchant songbook bingo. Special guests include Mrs. Claus, the elves, and the Grinch. For more information…
Work continues for the downtown district pavement rehabilitation project in Atascadero. Lewis avenue will be closed to through traffic from this morning until the end of day on November 22nd, and East Mall will be closed to all traffic and parking for the same time. Broadband utility work will continue on Palma avenue and Traffic…
The Paso Robles city council will be meeting tomorrow at 6:30. On the council’s agenda is the discussion of the parking Ad Hoc committee’s findings and recommendations. The Ad Hoc committee was established earlier this year with the intention of providing recommendations for modifications to the existing downtown program. Council has been presented with four…
On Friday evening, a three-vehicle crash brought traffic on northbound highway 101 in Atascadero to a standstill. The crash was reported at around 5:58 pm near the Del Rio offramp, and one of the lanes was requested to be closed. Traffic was brought to a lengthy standstill due to the crash. CHP has not reported…
Former mayoral candidate, Michael Rivera, filed a complaint against city manager Ty Lewis to the city of Paso Robles. The complaint says that Rivera attended the November 6th homeless committee meeting by request of committee member Ron Cuff, who could not attend. Rivera says that he has several email messages from Angelica Fortin and Ty…
The San Luis Obispo county board of supervisors met on Friday for a special closed session. The session had to deal with the consideration for discipline, dismissal, or release of a public employee. The county released a statement later that evening saying the board voted to terminate their contract with interim county administrative officer John…
On Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission voted to approve PG&E’s request to increase their rates. PG&E has requested the rate increase to bury around 2,100 miles of power lines in high risk wildfire areas. The public utilities commission voted to let PG&E bury 1,230 miles of power lines, which will be 1.7 billion dollars…
Jersey Mikes Press Release The Paso Robles police department released a statement on Friday regarding an armed robbery that took place later in the evening. At around 7 pm, the department received a report of an armed robbery that occurred at Jersey Mike’s Sandwiches at 2301 Theater drive. A white male adult suspect entered the…
