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Tonight, Atascadero city council will discuss pickle ball. The issue is a $240 thousand dollar project to build pickle ball courts at Colony park. The city received a $30,000 donation from the Atascadero Pickle Ball Club. Tonight’s construction award is an expenditure of $173 thousand dollars for the courts. The city council will also discuss…
Homelessness in the north county. The issue took on a new face after a fight among several homeless people during broad daylight in the downtown area of Atascadero. Atascadero police chief Bob Masterson has spent a lot of time researching the homeless issue since taking over as chief this year. Atascadero police chief Bob Masterson.…
Today, San Luis Obispo county supervisors may address the absence in the county clerk recorder’s office. Tommy Gong has left the building. San Luis Obispo based attorney Stewart Jenkins, who would like to be appointed to the position of county clerk recorder, says the supervisors will discuss the matter today. Jenkins argued one elections case…
We’ll see cooler weather through the weekend here in the north county. Great weather for today’s job fair in downtown Paso Robles. The job fair put on by the Paso Robles Chamber of Commerce, Paso Robles downtown Main Street association and the Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance. It will be from 9-11 this morning at…
Sunny and warm again today, highs near 103 in Paso Robles, 96 in Atascadero. WNW winds 10-20 miles per hour. Overnight, clear skies, lows near 58. Westerly winds 10-20 miles per hour. Tomorrow, mostly sunny, but cooler, highs near 91. 83 tomorrow in Atascadero. SW winds 15-25 miles per hour. The extended forecast calls for…
The first round of the baseball amateur draft last night. The Pittsburgh Pirates select Louisville catcher Henry Davis with the first pick. Davis is the best college hitter in the draft. He hit 370 with 15 home runs. More walks than strikeouts. The second player selected, pitcher Jack Leiter of Vanderbilt. He went to the…
The Paso Robles Friends of the Library held a successful book drive Saturday in the parking lot behind the library. Hundreds of books were donated by the public. The Friends of the Library will conduct another book drive on Saturday, July 24th. Same place, same time, Saturday morning by the oak tree behind the Paso…
San Luis Obispo county sheriff’s deputies arrested a man Saturday after he threatened to stab a group of people in rural Paso Robles. The episode occurred around five Saturday morning at Franklin Hot Springs off Creston road. The man allegedly yelled racial slurs at a group of Hispanics. When officers arrived, the man ran down…
In 2020, the homicide rate in San Luis Obispo county was the greatest recorded since 2003. Seven homicides reported last year in the county. That’s up from five in 2019. During shootouts with police, three people were shot and killed by law enforcement officers. The most dramatic was the shooter who stalked people in the…
Remember the homeless fight several weeks in Atascadero? Homeless people swinging knives and a baseball bat at one another. The first officer on the scene that day was the Atascadero police chief, Bob Masterson. Chief Masterson says these were homeless people who were familiar to police. The cops knew all their names. Masterson says Atascadero…
