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Cuesta College faculty and staff have received instructions from administration regarding recent immigration enforcement by ICE under President Donald Trump. Staff were instructed to not provide entry or information to federal agents, and to notify administrators if they are approached by federal agents. They are also instructed to assist the federal agents in contacting campus…
San Luis Obispo county sheriff deputies engaged with a suspect in a shooting incident yesterday evening at around 10 pm. A release by the sheriff’s office says they responded to a report of shots fired near Templeton high school on the 1200 block of South Main street. When deputies arrived, the suspect fired multiple shots…
The county homeless services division has issued a request for proposals for warming centers in Atascadero, Morro Bay, and Paso Robles. The department says these three areas were listed in the 2024 point-in-time count as having “some of the highest numbers of unsheltered individuals.” Warming centers seek to offer safe, warm spaces during cold and…
The next meeting for the county board of supervisors will be Tuesday, February 4th. On the board’s agenda is an item pertaining to the Joint Power Agreement for the Paso Robles groundwater basin. The JPA is an authority that would include all five groundwater sustainability agencies, and whose purpose, according to the agenda, is to…
As approved by the Paso Robles city council in its joint meeting earlier this month, rates for garbage collection by Paso Waste & Recycle is set to increase next month. Starting February 1st, rates for residential and commercial customers will increase by about 12%. Paso Waste and Recycle has been serving the community for around…
Every year, the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District is required by state law to complete, approve, and publish school accountability report cards (SARC) for its facilities. SARC cards contain grading and evaluations on the performance and condition of each public school. Evaluations include school facility conditions, student demographics, availability of textbooks, graduation & dropout…
In its meeting last night, the Morro Bay city council voted unanimously to adopt an urgency ordinance to prohibit battery energy storage systems within the city limits. The agenda says this was made in response to a recent proposition by Cistra Energy, proposing a 600-megawatt battery storage system in the city limits, which members of…
The Atascadero Tourism Business Improvement District advisory board (ATBID) has released a request for proposal for destination marketing services. The board seeks to promote the city of Atascadero as a tourism destination, represented by lodging owners who work with the city of Atascadero. They are now seeking to contract a marketing firm with the goal…
The Atascadero city council will be holding a special meeting tonight at 4:30. The meeting’s purpose is to conduct interviews and select candidates to fill in the at-large positions for the city’s planning commission and sales tax oversight committee. The planning commission advises the city council on matters pertaining to zone changes, divisions of property,…
The San Luis Obispo county administrative office announced that county counsel, Rita Neal, is set to retire in March of this year. Her office advises the board of supervisors, all county departments, commissions, boards, and the San Luis Obispo council of governments. Neal has been a part of the county counsel’s office for 26 years,…
