Atascadero City Council Upcoming Meeting Tuesday, May 11
ATASCADERO — The Atascadero City Council’s upcoming meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 11 for closed session at 5 p.m. with open session beginning at 6 p.m. The full agenda can be found on the city's website. Closed session will be to conference with the Labor...
Marjorie “Midge” McGranahan Billings 1927-2021
Marjorie “Midge” McGranahan Billings, a Fremont resident for 33 years, passed peacefully on March 10, 2021, at her daughter, Kathy Fields’, home. Her children and numerous grand and great-grandkids were present in her last days. Midge was born November 7, 1927, in...
Laurel Kathleen Haslam-Spjut 1970-2021
Laurel Kathleen Haslam-Spjut was born on April 10, 1970, in Santa Maria, CA, to Ralph & Barbara Haslam. She was raised locally in Arroyo Grande and Nipomo and settled in Paso Robles in 1999, where she lived for 20 years, before moving to Kern County in 2019. She...
Howard O. Carr, Jr. 1944-2021
Former Atascadero resident Howard O. Carr, Jr. 77, passed away April 28, 2021, in Auburn, WA, surrounded by family. He graduated from Atascadero High School in 1962, then joined the US Navy and later the US Marine Corp. He served in Vietnam and later graduated...
North County Athletes of the Week: May 6
The Athlete of the Week will receive a personalized trophy mug and a gift card for food at Santa Maria Brewing Company. Contact our news office at (805)466.2585 for more information. Thank you to Santa Maria Brewing and Five Star Rain...
Cal Poly’s National Society of Black Engineers Receives National Chapter of the Year Honor
SAN LUIS OBISPO — A live Q&A with astronaut Victor Glover in space was one of several highlights that helped Cal Poly’s National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) earn recognition as Small National Chapter of the Year. The recognition was relayed by NSBE’s...
Wanda Venturelli “Rain of Flowers” announced as winner of Solstice Poster and T-shirt Contest
SANTA BARBARA — Each year, there is an artistic competition for the Santa Barbara Summer Solstice T-shirt and poster design. The 47th annual Summer Solstice Celebration theme is “Bloom.” After receiving many wonderful works of art that exemplified this theme, they are...
Paso Robles Wine Festival Weekend Returns with Focus on Individual Winery Activities
With no grand tasting, wineries step up small scale events The 38th Annual Paso Robles Wine Festival is less than one month away! This annual festival which celebrates everything Paso Robles wine, is set for May 20 to 23. This year, the festival will look a...
‘God’s Deliverance of His Imprisoned Servant’ Genesis 41:1-45 Dr. Gary M. Barker
Dr. Gary Baker is an independent columnist for The Atascadero News and Paso Robles Press; you can email him at pastor@gracebaptistpaso.org. In our last meditation, we learned that the patriarch Joseph was forgotten by a person he had helped get out of the prison that...
Walk To End Alzheimer’s To Be In Person This Fall
Despite the changes to this event due to the pandemic, the Walk to End Alzheimer’s raised more than $67 million last year SAN LUIS OBISPO — The Alzheimer’s Association is moving forward with plans to host the 2021 San Luis Obispo Walk to End Alzheimer’s in person on...
