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Quite a crowd at the Space Station over the weekend. With the arrival of four astronauts from Space X, there are eleven astronauts there. The all-time record is 13, set during NASA’s space shuttle era, before president Obama made severe cuts in the space program. The current population on the space station includes six Americans,…
If you drove by the Galaxy theater in Atascadero over the weekend, you may have noticed the cars in the parking lot. The Galaxy and most other movie theaters in the county finally reopening last weekend. Park Cinemas in Paso Robles is also back open. And the historic Bay Theater in Morro Bay. Among the…
82 known covid deaths reported when a hospital for coronavirus patients catches fire in Baghdad yesterday. Volcanoes of fire swept through the intensive care unit. 110 other people were injured. That death toll may go up as families search the rubble looking for missing relatives. In Morro Bay, someone vandalized the electrical system at Giovanni’s…
Cal Poly students, faculty and staff will be required to prove they’ve been vaccinated against covid-19, if the want to be on campus this fall. Cal State University announcing it’s plans on Thursday. Same holds true for the UC system. There may be court challenges to that mandate.
The latest count of new coronavirus cases in the county shows San Luis Obispo again responsible for nearly half of the new cases. 33 reported county wide on Friday. 16 of those were in San Luis Obispo. Eight in Paso Robles. One each in Santa Margarita and Templeton. None reported in Atascadero or Cambria. We’ll…
Monterey county is now in the governor’s orange tier on the coronavirus spectrum. San Luis Obispo county remains in the red tier, due in large part to the number of Cal Poly students testing positive for the coronavirus in recent weeks. Yesterday, an outspoken critic of the government response to covid-19 spoke in Paso Robles.…
Highway one is open again. The governor said Caltrans worked every day to get it open as soon as possible. The governor also said he enjoyed the visit to Big Sur on Friday for the reopening. Monterey county supervisor Mary Adams also talked about the closure of highway one, and what it meant to people…
Did you get any rain at your place yesterday? Most of the north county received a over one tenth of an inch of rain. Paso Robles, however, recorded only five one hundredths of an inch. Atascadero got just over one tenth. Cambria received just over one tenth of an inch. The south coast received the…
Mostly sunny after morning clouds dissipate, highs near 67. SW wind 15-25 miles per hour. Overnight, partly cloudy skies, lows near 42. Tomorrow, partly cloudy skies, highs near 69. WSW winds 15-25 miles per hour. Forecasters say we have a 25% chance of light rain Sunday. Then mostly sunny Monday with a warming trend next…
A strange story with a local twist in PAC 12 football. Toward the end of the final game of this strange spring football season, the Oregon State Beavers put a young freshman in at quarterback. The highly touted freshman quickly led the Beavers down field and completed a touchdown pass. His name is Ben Gulbranson.…
