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The Rebels of Ole Miss beat Oklahoma 4-2 to sweep the Sooners and win the College World Series Championship in Omaha Nebraska. Next up for college baseball players, the professional draft July 17th. Among the top draftees, Brooks Lee of Cal Poly, who played high school ball at San Luis Obispo high school. Lee was…
Xander Schauffele won the Travelers Championship golf tournament in Cromwell, Connecticut on Sunday. Schauffele’s caddie and partner on the course is Austin Kaiser, who played golf at Atascadero High School before meeting Xander at San Diego State, where they played together on the Aztec golf team. It’s Schauffele’s sixth victory on the PGA Tour. He…
San Luis Obispo county district attorney Dan Dow says a superior court judge has ordered a bookkeeper, who embezzled from her employer, to pay 1.3 million dollars in restitution. 57-year-old Ginger Lee Mankins of Arroyo Grande was sentenced to 10 years in state prison last December after pleading guilty to six counts of felony embezzlement.…
San Luis Obispo police are investigating two separate stabbing incidents which occurred on June 19th in downtown San Luis. Just before closing time, a man was stabbed several times in the upper torso in the library bar on Higuera street. That was at 1:51 in the morning. The second stabbing occurred just before five am.…
Politics in San Luis Obispo county have seen better days and far worse. Recently, former Grover Beach mayor Debbie Peterson published a book called the Happiest Corruption, Sleaze, Lies and Suicide in a California Beach Town. The book has become an Amazon best seller. She says she wasn’t always in politics, but she did serve…
Food and Wine Magazine names a northern Santa Barbara county winery the best in California. Bien Nacido Winery opened in 1973 on the old Rancho Tepesquet. That was the 20,000 acre ranch owned by Pacifico Ontiveros near Sisquoc, which is south east of Santa Maria. The Ontiveros family still holds family reunions at the winery.…
The 25th Annual Atascadero Wine Festival packed the Lake Park from 4-8 Saturday afternoon and evening. About 1300 people attended the festival which featured local wine, beer and distilled cider. Josh Cross of the Atascadero Chamber of Commerce, said the wine festival included live bands, including Deja Vous, and Erin and the Earthquakes. The shade…
Ballot counting is expected to resume today at the county clerk’s office in San Luis Obispo. Richard Patten has been observing the activities at the San Luis Obispo county clerk’s office. He says what he’s seen has been less than perfect. About 17,000 ballots remain to be counted. The most hotly contested election is the…
Early Sunday morning, a car smashed into the Lewis avenue bridge near Capistrano road. The collision occurred around 2:00 am early Sunday morning. Traveling northbound on Lewis avenue, the car smashed into the bridge and overturned a planter and damaged some railing, but caused no structural damage. The driver was transported to a local hospital…
The Tree of Life Pregnancy Care Center in Paso Robles was vandalized over the weekend, after the supreme court decision overturning Roe versus Wade. The main window was broken and the vandals spray painted slogans on the front window. The group taking responsibility is Jane’s Revenge. Jane standing for Jane Roe, the subject in the…
