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AHS robotics team honored at City Hall
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Hounds fall in CIF title game
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New Templeton Advisory Group assembles
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Stolen vehicle pursuit leads to foot chase in Downtown Atascadero
ATASCADERO — Nearby schools were sheltered in place Tuesday, May 14, while officers chased a man on foot in Downtown Atascadero, the Atascadero Police Department reported. According to officials at approximately 1:19 p.m. Tuesday, afternoon, Atascadero patrol officers were dispatched to the area of Chalk Mountain Liquor regarding a suspicious person.
Updated: 1 week ago
Greyhounds going to the big game
ATASCADERO — Before the umpire could even turn his shoulder and point out his finger signaling a called strike, the celebration had already begun for the Greyhounds who are headed to the Division 3 CIF Central Section Championship baseball game after defeating Templeton 4-3 in Kidwell Stadium. From what the Atascadero News could gather, this was the first time the Hounds appeared in a CIF semifinal since 1995 and the first time they will get a chance to play for a CIF Championship in baseball in school history.
Updated: 1 week ago
AHS robotics team honored at City Hall
The Atascadero High School robotics team, last featured on the cover of this paper on May 3 for their third World Championship win, was honored for their work by the Atascadero Unified School District Board of Trustees and San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Debbie Arnold along with Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham at the AUSD Board meeting May 21 and again by the Atascadero City Council and Fire Department on May 22. The hero’s welcome ride to City Hall with the Atascadero Fire Department took the entire Fire Station One fleet plus two support vehicles to get the team, officially FIRST Robotics Competition Team 973, or Greybots 973 to the proclamation ceremony in style.
Updated: 2 days ago
805 Elite Volleyball Club sends first team to Nationals
SAN LUIS OBISPO — During the final weekend of April, the 17 and Under 805 Elite Volleyball Team qualified for the prestigious Girls Junior National Tournament which will be held in Indianapolis, Ind., July 1-5. By finishing in third place at the Northern California Far Westerns National Qualifier, they become the first 805 Elite Team to earn this extremely coveted opportunity, and the first team the Central Coast has sent to Nationals in over a decade.
Updated: 4 days ago
City Council set to raise sewage rates
Despite encouragement, there was again no official public comment at the Council’s regular May 14 meeting, even on an agenda that promises to hit the pocketbooks of residents with homes and businesses connected to the City sewer system. And the Mayor noted as much from the dais adding that she assumed there were more people watching at home than were in the room on the fourth floor of City Hall.
Updated: 1 week ago
Stolen vehicle pursuit leads to foot chase in Downtown Atascadero
ATASCADERO — Nearby schools were sheltered in place Tuesday, May 14, while officers chased a man on foot in Downtown Atascadero, the Atascadero Police Department reported. According to officials at approximately 1:19 p.m. Tuesday, afternoon, Atascadero patrol officers were dispatched to the area of Chalk Mountain Liquor regarding a suspicious person.
Updated: 1 week ago
Atascadero Lakeside Wine Festival gives back to the Zoo
ATASCADERO — The Atascadero Lakeside Wine Festival Committee gave the Charles Paddock Zoo $10,000 from the 2018 Atascadero Lakeside Wine Festival. Every year the committee donates to the Charles Paddock Zoo and other community organizations using proceeds from the Atascadero Lakeside Wine Festival, now known as The Central Coast RESERVE Experience. “The 2018 Atascadero Lakeside Wine Festival Committee is pleased to donate $10,000 to the Atascadero Charles Paddock Zoo to continue their great work on the animal habitats according to the zoo master plan. It is important to the committee to give back not only to the zoo but to other great community projects that benefit the residents of Atascadero,” said Barbie Butz, chairwoman of the Atascadero Lakeside Wine Festival Committee.
Updated: 3 weeks ago
Local nonprofit Seneca tackling SLO County’s foster care crisis
ATASCADERO — With Foster Care Awareness Month coming up in May, Atascadero-based adoption and foster care nonprofit Seneca Family of Agencies is ramping up awareness efforts in a push to find more foster families to accommodate the approximately 400 foster children in San Luis Obispo County. The Continuum of Care Reform Act (AB 403), which began implementation in 2016 and will last through 2021, has increased pressure for organizations like Seneca to recruit more foster families. California Department of Social Services states that, under AB 403, group-home foster care “will be primarily utilized only for Short-term Residential Therapeutic Centers … and will be designed to quickly transition children back to their own or another permanent family.”
Updated: 3 weeks ago
New deputy for Shandon
SHANDON — Earlier this month, a new San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office deputy was assigned to patrol the community of Shandon in northern San Luis Obispo County. This is the first time a deputy has been dedicated to serve that community. This position was created after Supervisor John Peschong made the request and the Board of Supervisors later approved funding for the new deputy. This addition should significantly improve response times to Shandon, which is a rural community east of Paso Robles of approximately 1,200 people, the Sheriff’s Office stated.
Updated: 3 weeks ago
Woman extricated from a tree on HWY 41
The Atascadero Fire Department responded to a vehicle into a tree on Highway 41 near Los Altos on Sunday, April 29. Fire personnel utilized hydraulic cutters to remove the roof in order to extricate the occupant. The patient, an unidentified woman, was transported to Sierra Vista Hospital with major injuries.
Updated: 3 weeks ago
Atascadero Holds first National Night Out
The City of Atascadero Police Department joined a national tradition on Tuesday, Aug. 7, with their first-ever Night Out event at Colony Park.Atascadero’s Night Out is part of an annual event dating to 1984, the community-building campaign aims to ‘promote neighborhood safety and police-community partnerships.’ Boy Scouts, members of the city’s police ‘explorer’ program, area nonprofits and businesses hosted booths at the first Night Out Event at Colony Park. (Photos by Rick Evans)