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A report by the California department of justice showed that the city of San Luis Obispo had the highest rate of hate crime events in the county in 2022. California defines a hate crime as “A criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against race,…
The Bureau of Land Management has recently signed a plan to help reduce the intensity and severity of wildfires across California. The statewide wildland-urban interface fuels treatment programmatic environmental assessment will seek to partner with local and state agencies for fuels reduction projects. Under this plan, the BLM hopes to reduce wildfire risk in communities…
The Atascadero city council met last night for its regular meeting. The board voted unanimously in favor of its three management reports. One of which was a professional services agreement with Vanir Construction Management Inc. The agreement would provide owner’s representative services for the Atascadero public safety facility project. The project is a joint-use facility…
United Way of San Luis Obispo will be hosting its annual “Stuff the Bus” back-to-school event tomorrow in Paso Robles. The event will go from 3 to 6 in the afternoon at Walmart in Paso Robles. Suggested supply donations are: backpacks, pens and pencils, glue sticks, highlighters, notebooks, binders, and more. A full list of…
Woods Humane Society has announced a fundraising challenge in August. The Marianne and Stacy Cocks Fund will double every donation made to Woods Humane Society up to ten thousand dollars. Woods CEO Emily L’Heureux says that Woods aims to increase the number of homeless pets it helps this year. Last year Woods found homes for…
The city of Atascadero will be conducting its regular meeting tonight at 6. Items on its agenda include a public hearing for routine confirmation on the cost of vegetative growth and/or refuse abatement. Its management report includes an agreement with Vanir Construction Management Inc. for the Atascadero public safety facility project. The project has been…
SpaceX launched another set of Starlink internet satellites last night from the Vandenberg space force base. The Falcon 9’s first stage landed on the “Of Course I Still Love You” drone ship in the pacific ocean minutes after launch. According to SpaceX, this was the fifth launch for this particular booster. SpaceX has launched almost…
The San Luis Obispo county sheriff’s department announced its search for missing 29-year-old Wendelin “Wendy” Stauffer yesterday afternoon. The sheriff’s office received a missing person report from a family member for Stauffer on July 12th. According to the release, Stauffer was last seen in May of 2023, telling her employer she needed to go to…
The Paso Robles school board held its special public town hall meeting yesterday. The meeting was for parents to share their thoughts on the status and future of the 36th street campus. While the meeting was initially intended to last only two hours from 6 to 8, the board wished for everyone in attendance who…
Atascadero mayor Heather Moreno announced yesterday that she had received the endorsement of the San Luis Obispo county deputy sheriffs association in her campaign for San Luis Obispo county supervisor. According to the release, the endorsement comes after several other endorsements from local public safety organizations, including the Atascadero police association and Atascadero professional firefighters.…
