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At San Quentin prison Monday, a convicted sex offender and murderer from San Luis Obispo county found dead in his cell. Back in 1986, Richard Allen Benson molested, tortured and killed a Nipomo woman and her three young children. The kids were ages 23 months to four years. Benson was a parolee with a history…
There was no Paso Robles city council meeting last night. The council will meet Thursday night, and they will meet virtually again. Mayor Steve says the community at large is also seeing increased reopening and a return of personal freedoms. He says the council may reopen meetings again in a few months. Tomorrow night, they’ll…
Sunny with highs near 90. SW winds this afternoon 10-20 miles per hour. Overnight, partly cloudy, lows near 53. WSW winds 15-25 miles per hour. Tomorrow sunny, highs in the mid 90’s. W winds 10-20 miles per hour. Mostly sunny skies through this first week of June, cooling off Friday and Saturday into the mid…
The Templeton Eagles girls soccer team lost to Kingsburg in overtime 1-0 in the CIF championships. So the Eagles finish second in CIF. The Templeton baseball team, swept a double header with Paso Robles, 1-0 and 9-6. The Eagles will now wait for the CIF play-offs. They’ll host their first playoff game June 9th at…
The baseball season ended Sunday for the Cal Poly Mustangs, but on a positive note. The Cal Poly Mustangs beat Hawaii 6-2 Sunday to complete a four game sweep. The Mustangs won the final seven games of the season and 11 of their final twelve games. In Sunday’s game, red shirt freshman Brooks Lee hit…
One month from now, summer concerts return to the north county. The 20th annual concerts in the park begin July 1st at the downtown city park in Paso Robles. Linda Plescia of the city of Paso Robles says the concerts will be held Thursday evenings at the downtown city park. Atascadero’s Saturday in the park…
A fire burned about 850 acres over the weekend near Bradley. The Sargents fire burning in a remote area near Wunpust road and Sargeant Canyon road, northeast of Bradley in southern Monterey county. It’s in the vicinity of “Dead Man Gulch road.” The fire was reportedly 50% contained as of yesterday morning. It started around…
First in Paso Robles, then in Atascadero. Public displays of affection for the city police officers removed from areas near the police station. In Atascadero, one woman is not happy about it. Amanda Hawkins calling KPRL late last week after the city removed the thin blue line flags from the police station. Flags which she…
There will be no Paso Robles city council meeting Tuesday night. The council will meet Thursday night, virtually. The council will get an update from ECHO, and another on riverbed mitigation. The council will have a public hearing on the proposed removal of one live oak tree at 298 Niblick road for the Woodland apartments.…
Hundreds attended the Memorial Day Ceremony at the Faces of Freedom Veterans Memorial Monday afternoon. The event opened with a flyover by Estrella Warbirds at 12:00 noon. 85-year-old George Marrett flew the Right-wing, which peeled off from the formation to represent the missing man, who did not return from a mission. The Boots and Chutes,…
