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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…
Farmers market this afternoon from 3-6 at the sunken gardens in downtown Atascadero.
The California mid-state fair cancels youth poultry shows at the fair for 2019. The decision based on a variety of factors including recommendations from the California Department of Food and Agriculture. It’s due to the outbreak of virulent Newcastle disease in California. The mid-state fair joins other fairs and poultry organizations which have also canceled…
Last night, the Atascadero city council honored Atascadero Kiwanis on their 50th anniversary. Several dozen Kiwanis members attended the council meeting at the historic rotunda. Representatives presented proclamations from state assemblyman Jordan Cunningham, and state senator Bill Monning. city councilwoman Heather Newsome read a proclamation from the city. The council unanimously approved updates to zoning…
The Paso Robles Groundwater Cooperative Committee meets at 4:00 this afternoon at the Paso Robles library conference room. The group will work on the groundwater sustainability plan. Supervisor Debbie Arnold is an alternate to the group, but she will be the county’s voting member today because supervisor John Peschong is doing county business elsewhere and…
