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Mostly cloudy this morning, partly cloudy this afternoon, highs near 62. Clear overnight with temperatures dipping down to about 35. Tomorrow, mostly sunny skies with temperatures around 67. The extended forecast calls for mostly sunny skies thru Sunday. A 65% chance of rain Monday night through next Thursday.
Under the new red tier, schools can now reopen. School officials now looking at how soon they can return, and whether there will be push back from local teachers unions. San Luis Obispo county court house closed briefly Tuesday morning after a threat to the building. Bomb sniffing dogs searched the building. Staff was evacuated…
Monday morning, the Paso Robles School District discovered six school vans were vandalized. The catalytic converters were removed. The thief entered the vehicle yard through a gate and stole the device off six older model vans. Transportation and Operations Manager Kelly Stainbrook said, “They were older vans, so finding the replacement parts may be challenging.”…
The Paso Robles City Council meet Tuesday evening, virtually. The council received a COVID-19 Community Update. The big news is that the county returned yesterday to Governor Gavin Newsom’s Red Tier. Joel Peterson of the Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance talked about a challenging year under the pandemic shutdown. He said tourism stopped in March,…
Governor Gavin Newsom stopped by the vaccination facility at Cuesta College near San Luis Obispo Tuesday afternoon to congratulate local officials on our county returning to the Red Tier. He said San Luis Obispo County is one of seven counties moving into the red tier. That’s a result of a reduction of case rates and…
Mostly sunny today with highs this afternoon near 70. Clear overnight with temperatures dipping down to about 37. Tomorrow, cloudy in the morning, partly cloudy in the afternoon with temperatures around 63. The extended forecast calls for mostly sunny skies Thursday and Friday. Then a 60% chance of rain Saturday. And a 50% chance of…
Did you feel any earthquakes over the weekend? A series of four earthquakes shook Big Sur early Sunday morning. The strongest measured 3.7 on the Richter scale. Tremors between 2.5 and 5.4 may be felt, but rarely cause much damage.
Dave Booker died February 10th in Rancho Mirage. Booker grew up in Atascadero, and graduated from Atascadero high school in 1963. He graduated from Cal Poly with a degree in accounting. After getting his CPA license, he joined the San Luis firm of Glenn and Burdette. He served on the Atascadero school board from 1975-1979.…
Over the weekend, San Luis Obispo county reported 53 people tested positive for Covid-19. Eight people with Covid died. All eight are 50 years of age and older. Since they started testing last year, 235 people with coronavirus have died. The last time they provided statistics on age, the county health department reported the average…
An Atascadero punk rocker convicted of indecent exposure in San Luis Obispo superior court. Steve Klein was a founding member of the band, “New Found Glory.” Klein accepted a plea bargain in a case that has dragged on for six years. Klein will serve no jail time, and will be sentenced to two years of…