Local news in San Luis Obispo County including San Miguel, Paso Robles, Shandon, Templeton, Atascadero, Santa Margarita, San Luis Obispo, Avila Beach, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria, Pismo Beach, Arroyo Grande, Santa Maria, and other cities along the Central Coast of California.
The California attorney general’s office is investigating the case of a former Paso Robles police officer accused of sexually assaulting a woman. The San Luis Obispo county district attorney’s office elected not to prosecute the former police sergeant. He’s identified as Christopher Mcguire. He no longer works in the department. The state AG’s office is…
A south county school bus driver who molested a special needs student is sentenced to 16 years in prison. David Kenneth Lamb of Arroyo Grande allegedly abused a 9-year-old girl over a period of about four months. In February, he pleaded no contest to two felony charges of committing lewd acts on a child. Lamb…
San Luis Obispo county supervisors approved allocation of $1.5 million dollars for a homeless shelter in Paso Robles. The shelter is proposed for the area near the wastewater treatment facility. That’s near the intersection of 101 and 46, between 101 and the Salinas river bed. The grant is part of $4.8 million the state is…
Today is the day you can buy a bowl of soup to help the El Camino Homeless Organization. The soup to be served by celebrities at Atascadero Bible Church for lunch and dinner. Lunch is from 11:30 to 1 today. Dinner is from 5:30 to 7:00. The 4th annual Empty Bowls fundraiser is today at…
The Paso Robles Groundwater Basin Cooperative committee met yesterday at the Paso Robles library conference room. About fifty people attended the committee meeting, mostly landowners in the north county. A consultant outlined what had been developed by staff for chapters 6-9 of the groundwater basin sustainability plan. After an hour of description by the consultant,…
Sunny today, highs in the upper 80’s, SW winds 10-20 miles per hour. Tonight, clear, lows in the low 50’s. Tomorrow, partly cloudy, highs in the mid 80’s. The extended forecast calls for mostly sunny skies through next Tuesday.
The Atascadero baseball team lost to Dunn of Los Olivos 14-11 yesterday in the Nipomo tournament. The Greyhounds play Pioneer Valley at 10:00 this morning. Paso Robles baseball team plays Mission Prep at 6:00 this evening at Sinsheimer stadium. The Bearcats will play El Capitan high school from Merced at 10:00 tomorrow morning at Taylor…
Tomorrow in Atascadero, the 4th annual Empty Bowls fundraiser for El Camino Homeless Organization. It’s from 11:30-1 for lunch, and again at dinner from 5:30-7:00. Potters like Shevon Sullivan of Anam Cre’ in San Luis donate bowls to the event. Shevon’s bowls sell for several hundred dollars at local gift stores, but you can get…
Your PG and E bill may be going up. On Monday, the utility requested permission from the California Public Utilities Commission to hike rates to address massive liabilities sustained in lawsuits filed after the northern California wildfires. It means the average household’s electricity and natural gas bill could go up about $22 a month. Southern…
Staffers at Atascadero State Hospital say about 80 patients have no easy access to toilets and drinking water. They say this has continued for nine days, and that it’s creating increasingly unsanitary conditions at the hospital. One staffer tells the Tribune, “conditions are slowly turning into Lord of the Flies.” State officials says a contractor…
