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District attorney Dan Dow announced yesterday afternoon that 36-year-old Courtney Allan Quiros of Paso Robles has been sentenced to 25 years and 8 months in state prison. His sentence comes after a plea of no contest to three felony charges, including first degree residential burglary, forced oral copulation, and sexual battery by restraint. The DA’s…
The El Camino Homeless Organization announced a collaborative effort with the Rotary Club of Paso Robles and the Interact Club from Paso Robles high school to introduce a transformative playground at the ECHO Paso campus. ECHO says the project includes the installation of a playground featuring swings, slides, climbing structures, and other amenities designed to…
Late last week, the California energy commission terminated the proceeding for Canadian energy company Hydrostor’s Pecho Energy Storage Center. The proposed center was planned to be built off highway 1 between San Luis Obispo and Morro Bay, and would construct an industrial site to store 400 megawatts of energy by using excess electricity to compress…
Earlier this week, Caltrans announced that it has awarded nearly 115 million dollars in clean California grants to cities and local agencies. This is of governor Gavin Newsom’s clean California initiative, which is a 1.2 billion dollar, multi year commitment led by Caltrans. Caltrans says that the clean California grants have funded nearly 300 projects…
The Paso Robles police department released a statement on a local business burglary that took place early Tuesday morning. The police department says an unknown male wearing a hat, mask, and gloves broke through the front door of the Pour House on Pine street at around 3:30 am. The suspect took 20 Pour House hats,…
The Templeton school board’s next regular meeting will be Thursday, October 12th at around 6:15 pm following its closed session. On the board’s agenda is the approval of its unaudited actuals financial report for fiscal year 2022-23. The agenda for the meeting says that revenues exceed expenditures for FY 2022-23 by 129 thousand dollars. Superintendent…
The planning commission for the city of Grover Beach recently approved a 59-unit mixed-use project in a 5 – 0 vote. The proposed development sits on a 1.38 acre lot, and will consist of two four-story buildings. The ground level of the buildings is reserved for commercial space, with 59 condominiums in the higher floors…
A 17,000 square foot joint dispatch facility for the San Luis Obispo county sheriff’s office and Calfire slo is expected to be built in Templeton. A groundbreaking ceremony was held yesterday with the two agencies present. The site is adjacent to the SLO county sheriff’s office in Templeton just off Main street and highway 101.…
On the consent agenda for tonight’s Atascadero city council is the formation of new positions and reclassification of existing positions throughout the city. The council may approve adding the positions of finance analyst and planning manager to its city staff. The positions to be reclassified are recreation coordinator and deputy city manager into senior recreation…
Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed Kristy Imel, a San Luis Obispo county prosecutor, to serve as a judge in the Santa Barbara county superior court. Imel has worked in the San Luis Obispo county district attorney’s office since 2010, and at the Merced county DA’s office from 2007 to 2010. She will fill the vacancy…