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PR School District – A Cautionary Tale Two weeks ago, the San Luis Obispo county grand jury issued a 28-page report documenting failures in leadership and mismanagement leading to a financial crisis. They called it, ‘Paso Robles School District; A Cautionary Tale’. The report coming just a few months after superintendent Dr. Curt Dubost said,…
That mysterious monolith is gone. The metal object showed up along a hiking trail in stadium park in Atascadero. The monolith was erected on Pine Mountain trail. It stood 10-12 feet tall and had three sides. Officials don’t know when the object was placed there or by whom. Locals who hike that trail on a…
The governor’s warns about new stay at home order. He says he may issue the new orders in the next few days if numbers increase at intensive care units in the county. He says the new orders may be issued later this week. Maybe next week. They will impact most of California, including San Luis…
Sunny today with highs near 73. Northerly winds 5-10 mph. Tonight, clear, lows near 32. Tomorrow, mostly sunny with highs near 72. NE winds 5-10 miles per hour. The extended forecast calls for mostly sunny skies through the week. Highs in the afternoon hours near 70. No great chance of rain for the next ten…
A sports legend days in Los Angeles. Rafer Johnson won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics. He died yesterday at this home in Sherman Oaks. Johnson grew up in Kinsburg. When he was in high school, his track coach took him to Tulare to watch Bob Matthias compete. Matthias won the Olympic decathlon in…
Although many holiday events have been canceled for 2020, there are several in Atascadero which will return this weekend. Terri Banish of the city of Atascadero talking about events tomorrow night at the Sunken Gardens. They’ll light up city hall Friday evening at six. There will be a Santa’s reindeer pop-up farm at city hall…
A mysterious metal object shows up along a hiking trail in Atascadero. The monolith is on Atascadero’s Pine Mountain trail. It stands 12-feet tall and has three sides. Officials don’t know when the object was placed there or by whom. Locals who hike that trail on a regular basis say it was a recent addition.…
PR School District – A Cautionary Tale The grand jury investigation into wrong doing by the Paso Robles school board and administrators during the Chris Williams administration focused on several issues. Trustee Chris Baush says one of the issues is a $250 thousand dollar bonus paid to Chris Williams when he resigned. That was never…
Unemployment insurance runs out for about 750 thousand Californians, by the end of the year. About 600 thousand people will run out of pandemic unemployment assistant payments. Another 170 thousand would lose benefits under the Pandemic Compensation Program, which added 13 weeks of benefits. The captain of that dive boat which caught fire near Santa…
The scale of the unemployment fraud involving California state prison inmates has grown to a staggering $400 million. That’s nearly triple the amount prosecutors first disclosed last week. The new number comes from the California Employment Development Department comparing its unemployment claims data to inmates’ social security numbers. In all, records show about 31,000 inmates…
