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Supervisors on Republican Mailer 05.24.2022

More discussion about three leftist candidates for supervisor buying advertising in a republican mailer to suggest to residents that they are republican. You may remember a resident pointed it out to the two sitting supervisors at last week’s county board of supervisors meeting. The other supervisors candidate who paid to be included among the republicans…

Best of the West Show 05.24.2022

Coming up this weekend, the return of the Best of the West show. Tom Madden says although it’s been gone for two years, people are anxious to see it return this weekend to the Santa Margarita Ranch. Tractors, trucks planes, wagons, mules and horses all on display at the Santa Margarita Ranch this Friday, Saturday…

Cambria Water Bills Go Up 05.24.2022

Beginning July first Cambria residents and businesses will pay more for water and sewage treatment. That’s because not enough protest forms were submitted to stop the rate hikes. The Cambria CSD board of directors approved the increases last week. Water bills are expected to increase about 18% for those who use 80 gallons of water…

Atascadero Power Outage 05.24.2022

Did you lose power yesterday? A power outage knocked out electricity to nearly 3500 customers around the city of Atascadero. PG and E officials say the outage occurred on a circuit that includes high fire-threat areas. It has enhanced power-line safety settings which automatically shut off power within a tenth of a second of a…

North County Weather 05.23.2022

Sunny, and warm in the north county, highs near 93. NW winds 10-20 miles per hour. Tonight, clear skies, lows near 51. NW winds 10-20 miles per hour. Tomorrow, mostly sunny and hotter, highs near 97. NW winds 10-20 miles per hour. The extended forecast calls for mostly sunny skies thru the week. But temperatures…

Cambria Football 05.23.2022

Friday Night Lights will be dark this fall in Cambria. There are not enough officials, so Coast Union high school will play football games on Thursdays and Saturdays. Last season, their eight man football team was scheduled to play on Friday nights, but CIF moved four home games to Saturday nights. Same plan this year.…

Chumash Museums 05.23.2022

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History returned thousand of Chumash artifacts to the Santa Ynez band of Chumash Indians. Meanwhile, the Chumash are building a museum of their own on their reservation near Santa Ynez. The 14,000 square foot facility is being built on a three and a half acre cultural park. That park…

Tesla Hopes To Open in SLO 05.23.2022

Tesla hopes to open a car dealership on Calle Joaquin in San Luis Obispo. Last week, the city architectural review commission approved the project. It will go to the planning commission on Wednesday. Right now, the closest Tesla dealership is in Santa Barbara. But many Tesla owners say they enjoy the drive south because they…

Gas Prices Up again 05.23.2022

If you’re planning on driving anywhere this coming Memorial Day weekend, you can plan on paying about $1.50 more per gallon of gas than you paid last year. According to AAA, the average price for a gallon of gas in the US is about $4.60 a gallon. In California, it’s just over $6. Gas prices…