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The Templeton high girls swim team won the Division II CIF Swim Championship over the weekend. The Eagles were the only school swimming for the title without having a pool. They finished with 238 points, followed by Nipomo high finishing second with 179. Freshman Kylie Bell broke records in the 200-yard individual medley and the…
Things getting back to normal in Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership has ordered all Afghan women to wear all-covering clothing in public, and threatened to punish their male relatives in cases of noncompliance. The decree was issued Saturday. It evoked similar restrictions on women during the Taliban’s previous hardline rule between 1996 and 2001. Now those…
Duckhorn Portfolio out of Napa Valley buys a 289-acre ranch in Paso Robles. The Bottom Line Ranch has been growing cabernet sauvignon grapes on 265 acres of the ranch. Duckhorn people described the Bottom Line Ranch as a rare find in terms of row orientations, root stocks and clonal selection. They say it has great…
Atascadero’s Printery Foundation sold more than 65 mother’s day lasagna dinners yesterday. It’s an annual fundraiser which raises money to restore the old Printery building. The lasagna dinners are prepared by volunteers. Questers was on hand to sell plants. The state Questers organization has deemed saving the Printery as their project this calendar year. The…
Saturday, thousands of people attended the Olive and Lavender Festival put on by the Paso Robles Main Street Association. Chris Mole brought olive oil from her Molefina Olive Oil Company. Besides olive oil there was lavender. There are a lot of health and beauty products made from lavender. But it’s also really good in ice…
A 1929 ford fire truck owned by the Atascadero fire department on display Saturday in Atascadero. It was on display Saturday at an open house celebrating the 100th anniversary of the fire department. Hundreds of people attended the open house at the Atascadero fire station in downtown Atascadero. Incidentally, Atascadero city council meets tomorrow night…
A wind-driven fire spread across 20-25 acres in Santa Margarita yesterday. The fire broke out around 1:45 yesterday afternoon at the Navajo Flat staging area. Crews fought the blaze into the night, according to Los Padres spokesperson Andrew Madsen. Local agencies helped support the Los Padres forest crew. The Navajo Flat staging area is a…
Cooler for the next couple days in the north county with highs in the afternoon hours in the mid 60’s and not as windy. Then a gradual warming trend. By this weekend, we’ll see temperatures in the mid 90’s. So enjoy the cool weather while you can. This weekend you’ll be dressing for summer.
Sunny skies, highs near 85. NW winds 10-15 miles per hour. Tonight, clear skies, lows near 50. NW winds 10-20 miles per hour. Tomorrow, mostly sunny, highs near 78. NW winds 15-25 miles per hour. The extended forecast calls for mostly sunny skies thru next week, cooling off Sunday. Mother’s Day will be windy in…
In baseball, the Cal Poly Mustangs are at home against Cal State Bakersfield in a Big West series at Cal Poly. Games at six tonight, four tomorrow and Sunday afternoon at one. After getting swept by the Gauchos, the Mustangs are now in third place in the Big West. Hawaii is in second place, but…
