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Usually this time of year, Pasadena is preparing for one of California’s great New Year’s Day traditions, The Rose Bowl. There will be a Rose Bowl game, but it will be played tomorrow in Dallas, Texas. Alabama against Notre Dame. The semifinals of the national championship. The Fighting Irish are 10-1 for the season. The…
San Luis Obispo county has 7,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines available. Among those at the front of the line to get vaccinated, health workers who are working with Covid patients. Also medical specialists including those working in optometry, and physical therapy, lab workers and dental office employees. Also pharmacy staff, especially those who work at…
The report on coronavirus in the county shows an uptick, but Dr. Penny Borenstein says it’s because there was a delay in reporting local coronavirus cases over the Christmas holiday weekend, and a change in state criteria. The number is 576 new cases, including many which were asymptomatic, but tested positive. Eight new deaths reported.…
Forecasters say the year 2020 will end with mostly sunny skies, after the fog dissipates this morning. We’ll see mostly sunny skies through the extended New Year’s weekend, then rain returns early next week. We may get showers Monday and Wednesday of next week. So plan accordingly.
Partly cloudy today, highs near 60. NNE winds 5-10 miles per hour. Partly cloudy overnight, lows in the mid 30’s. Mostly sunny skies tomorrow with highs in the mid 60’s. The extended forecast calls for sunshine through the New Year’s weekend. Then more rain beginning next Monday and continuing off and on for several days.…
Beam me up, Scotty. How many times have you heard that expression? Well, for the chief engineer of the USS Enterprise, it came true. James Doohan, who portrayed Scotty on Star Trek, died back in 2005. His ashes were interred on the International Space Station. Doohan died at the age of 85 back in 2005.…
Necessity is the mother of invention. In Atascadero, city leaders may have invented a new tradition for the Christmas holiday season. Terrie Banish tells KPRL, Atascadero may have a new annual holiday tradition on the night of the Light Up of Atascadero. Terrie says the reindeer were a big hit, so they’ll likely be returning…
Two people detained after a crash in Shell Beach yesterday. A short pursuit involving a sheriff’s deputy started when a deputy initiated a traffic enforcement stop and the driver took off. The short pursuit was quickly called off. The driver then crashed his car on Shell Beach road and Park Place. The CHP deployed a…
Last week, the CAT team with the Paso Robles police department facilitated a trash clean up in the Salinas riverbed. A local company was hired to remove 94 hundred pounds of trash from the southeast and northeast end of the riverbed. That cost about 75 hundred dollars. Crews are out in the riverbed this week…
While his health secretary announces extension of the stay-at-home-order in California, governor Gavin Newsom is talking about his home key program, which he says is unprecedented. His program buys old hotels and motels and allows homeless people to move into them. One of those properties purchased with state money is the Motel 6 in Paso…
