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On Saturday, August 31st, the 6th annual Overdose Awareness Day event will take place at Mitchell park in San Luis obispo from 2 to 4 pm. The county behavioral health department, a sponsor for this event, says this free event offers a safe space for community members to hear from local experts about the opioid…
For future home athletic games this school year, Atascadero high school will be moving to a cashless model, and will introduce ticketing through a mobile application. Attendees will be required to purchase tickets online through GoFan, either on the webpage or the app. Tickets must be presented on the attendee’s mobile application at the gate.…
The county DA’s office announced that two of its employees were honored last week at the annual California district attorneys association conference. The first was assistant chief investigator JT Camp, who received investigator of the year. The DA’s office says Camp was a key investigator in the prosecution of Paul Flores for the murder of…
A PG&E power outage left thousands of Cambria residents without power early Saturday morning. At around 8:41 am, PG&E’s outage map reported that around 3,389 customers in Cambria near the highway 46 area were without power. Power was eventually restored to the community later in the afternoon, at around 5 pm.
Reckless Burning 8-23-24 The Paso Robles police department released a statement of a juvenile being arrested for reckless burning on Friday morning. The department says patrol officers noticed a brush fire at North River road and Union road at around 9:43 am. The release also says they saw a male juvenile running away from the…
Structure Fire A residential fire sparked on Friday afternoon in Paso Robles. The fire was located on a Vine street home between 15th and 16th streets, with the blaze starting at the outdoor porch, and then moving inside. A release by the fire department says that two occupants and a dog were evacuated from the…
The Monterey County Park Rangers Association recently gave a shoutout to a teenager from Lompoc for his heroic rescue of a child at Lake Nacimiento. The post by the Park Rangers Association says that on August 18th, 13-year-old Lazaro Perez noticed that a seven-year-old child fell of a tube near the shoreline. The child was…
The department of transportation announced a project to remove and replace culverts on highway 229 will go through Friday, September 6th. Caltrans will be facilitating intermittent, one way traffic control along this highway between Rocky Canyon road and highway 58. Traffic control will be in effect daily from 7 am to 5 pm. The project…
For the upcoming November general election, the city of Atascadero has two seats on its city council up for election, as well as the position of mayor. Current Atascadero mayor Heather Moreno won the county board of supervisors district 5 seat last year, opening the position come November. The elected mayor will serve for two…
Yesterday morning, a grey dodge journey caught fire on the northbound 101 at the Cuesta grade. The fire was first reported shortly after 7 am, with sparks from the blaze traveling towards the center divide due to wind. The fire would spread to nearby vegetation, which was quickly extinguished by Cal Fire. Due to this…
