http://www.atascaderonews.com News RSS Feed Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:04:03 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3075 A baby prehensile-tailed porcupine was born at Charles Paddock Zoo on Aug. 24. The baby porcupine, which zoo Director Alan Baker has not yet been named because zoo staff does not know the sex of the baby, is the fourth baby for mother, Daisy, and Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:32:55 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3074 After 34 years of receiving a tax override, the Atascadero Unified School District will lose funds it has received via property tax. To continue receiving money to fund deferred maintenance and capital improvements, the district is asking voters to approve a bond measure. To be Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:31:55 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3073 A 51-year-old Atascadero woman was arrested late Thursday and charged with DUI, resisting arrest and child endangerment. The woman's child, an 11-year-old boy, called police when he noticed his mother missing from their home where she had reportedly been drinking. Police are not releasing the Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:31:17 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3072 The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department arrested Donald William Kimble, 57, and charged him with possession of stolen property, unlawful use of personal identification and theft of a bank access card in connection to a recent string of North County burglaries. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:30:51 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3071 John Shockley and Kimberley Ness are softly opening Shockley's at the Carlton Sept. 15 with a fully stocked lounge and hors d'oeuvres and planning their full restaurant opening the beginning of October. There are three chefs on site this week preparing menus and the kitchen Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:29:58 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3070 Atascadero Police Department added child pornography charges to those filed against Mark Ryan Polini, 27, of San Jose who was arrested in July for impersonating a law enforcement officer. According to police, one of two laptop computers Polini had in possession in a mock unmarked Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:28:41 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3069 The Atascadero City Council approved 4-1, with Councilwoman Ellen Beraud dissenting, text amendments to the city's municipal code at the Aug. 10 meeting. Beraud said she was voting no because she could not support the increase of size for commercial development's trigger to get a Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:27:50 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3063 Atascadero Police Department to partner with Avoid the 14 DUI campaign to launch intensive crackdown on impaired driving The Atascadero Police Department has joined Avoid the 14, which a group of 14 law enforcement agencies in San Luis Obispo County, and will hold a DUI/driver's Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:07:46 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3062 Kenneth Block, a 2010 Atascadero High School graduate, will add his name to the mix as a write-in candidate for the Atascadero Unified School District Board of Trustees. Block, who will turn 18 in mid-October, said about 15 minutes after he scheduled an appointment to Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:07:02 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3061 A Cuesta College instructor and Marketing and Communications department have teamed up to develop one of the first community college applications for smart phones in the United States - a free app that can guide students and visitors around Cuesta's three campuses. "Thanks to the Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:06:23 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3058 Cars cruise El Camino Real on Friday during the annual Hot El Camino Cruise Nite put on by the city of Atascadero. Recreation Supervisor Paula Anton said there were 363 participants this year, which is down from 2009, but comparable with 2007 and 2008 numbers. Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:07:40 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3057 The Atascadero City Council is slated to make its decision to approve or deny La Plaza Cinemas' conditional use permit at its Tuesday, Sept. 28 meeting. "The project will be agendized for a final council decision on Sept. 28," said Warren Frace, Atascadero director of Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:05:49 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3056 The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department warns people not to leave valuables in their cars after a $25,000 theft occurred last week at the Park & Ride site on Highway 58 near Highway 101 in Santa Margarita. A woman allegedly had hidden a Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:05:17 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3055 San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's narcotics detectives, assisted by Special Enforcement Detail deputies, conducted a high-risk warrant service in rural Simmler last Thursday morning that resulted in the arrest of a man suspected of guarding a marijuana grow. The raid included the use of sheriff's Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:04:42 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3054 Immediately after Sam Blakeslee (R-San Luis Obispo) was sworn in as the newest member of the California State Senate, the Senate unanimously passed a bill authored by Blakeslee to help local public safety officers assist the family of a deceased colleague. "This bill Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:03:56 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3053 A vegetation fire in Pozo was burning through its fourth day Tuesday, covering 1,200 acres, and was 89 percent contained, with full containment expected by the end of the day today, according to Cal Fire. The fire, the cause of which remains under investigation, started Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:03:20 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3052 Roadwork on the Hwy. 101 Atascadero Rehabilitation Project will continue in the northbound direction from Santa Barbara Road to Santa Rosa Road through Friday morning, Aug 27 during the overnight hours from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. It is possible that lane closures may occur Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:01:42 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3041 Atascadero Unified School District readies for the start of school, which will begin its 2010-11 school year on Monday, Aug. 16. AUSD Superintendent John Rogers said the biggest change for the school year is that the maintenance, operations and transportation facilities have been moved from Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:29:56 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3040 An Atascadero resident was left with bruises and emotionally upset after she was attacked in her home Monday evening. "I'd never seen this person before," she said. "He was a young male who was walking by my property as I was parking." The resident, whose Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:27:32 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3039 Picketers claiming a failure to pay union wages, who showed up on the sidewalk outside the Atascadero Mutual Water Company Jan. 25, have left the premises. Seen smoking and reading paperback books, the handful of picketers claimed to be members of the Carpenters Local 150 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:26:33 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3038 Although four people originally filed to run for the Templeton Unified School District Board of Trustees, Mark Stickley said on Wednesday that he will withdraw from the race. The other three candidating, vying for two seats, are Lisa Hammond, incumbent David La Rue and Nelson Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:25:28 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3037 Four excited families moved into their new People's Self-Help Housing homes on Terebinth Lane in Templeton last week. After working every weekend for the past year, the families moved into their newly constructed 1,150- to 1,220-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bath homes that received final occupancy clearance from Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:24:37 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3035 Classic cars cruise up and down Atascadero in a past Hot El Camino Cruise Nite. The annual event draws 300 to 500 participating cars and thousands of attendees on Friday, Aug. 20. The cruise takes place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on El Camino Real Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:49:31 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3034 Eight Atascadero businesses were cited for selling tobacco to a minor in a sting Aug. 9, while 17 city businesses passed the test. The Atascadero Police Department, in collaboration with the San Luis Obispo County Tobacco Control Program, sent a 17-year-old minor decoy to 25 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:48:45 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3033 Cost is a major reason why the Atascadero Police Department is sticking with the Ford Crown Victoria for police cruisers instead of going with the newer Dodge Charger model. The initial cash outlay is less expensive, and less-well-known initial costs are lower as well. Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:48:13 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3032 Leonard Rodriguez, 32, of Kerman died in a motorcycle crash in Santa Margarita, north of Tassajara Creek Road on northbound Highway 101 Sunday. According to the CHP, witnesses indicated that Rodriguez was traveling at a high rate of speed. Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:47:43 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3031 John Shaw, 56, of Templeton suffered moderate injuries after a four-vehicle accident near Shandon Monday. According to the San Luis Obispo County CHP, Rosa Solorio de Espino, 28, of Chula Vista was driving her 2010 gold Dodge Avenger westbound east of McMillan Canyon Road at Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:47:09 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3030 Atascadero Police Department officers arrested a transient man, Steven Bentley, 34, on Aug. 11 and charged him with burglary, attempted burglary and possession of methamphetamine. Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:45:49 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3020 The Atascadero City Council voted 3-2 in favor of removing five trees at the old Administration Building at Sunken Gardens in preparation for reconstruction set to start there this fall. Councilman Jerry Clay made the motion, seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Tom O'Malley with the Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:47:39 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3019 The Atascadero City Council meeting voted 5-0 at Tuesday's meeting to approve staff's recommendation on processing the Eagle Ranch environmental impact report concurrently with other work on the project. EIRs normally happen toward the end of a project's approval, Community Development Director Warren Frace said. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:45:29 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3018 The city of Atascadero, in addition to posting base salaries for every employee on the city payroll, has posted a sheet showing total compensation for every department manager, including costs for insurance, retirement contributions and perks. "It's important to know, and we have nothing to Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:44:50 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3017 After just four months on the job, the $37,500 X-Ray machine at Atascadero's Charles Paddock Zoo has become a crucial tool in the care and breeding of animals. "We've done a lot of stuff with it; we use it for a lot of routine things Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:43:44 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3016 With the end of the nomination period to run for Atascadero City Council, five men have put their names into the hat for two open city council seats. The two seats are currently held by Tom O'Malley and Ellen Beraud. The candidates for the seats Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:42:11 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3013 Now that funding is in place between the Federal Emergency Management Agency, California Emergency Management Agency, the Cultural Historical Endowment and the city of Atascadero, Public Works Director Russ Thompson said the project's management team, Bernards, will put the city hall restoration project out to Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:53:12 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3012 If Atascadero City Manager Wade McKinney were to retire today, his pension through CalPERS, the California Public Employees Retirement System, would be around $87,000 per year, but if he stays at his current salary and waits four years to retire, his pension would be around Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:50:47 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3011 The Atascadero Police Department is preparing to file an additional charge of suspicion of receiving stolen property against Mark Ryan Polini, 27, of San Jose. That charge is expected to be filed with the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney's Office this week against Polini, Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:48:13 -0500 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=3010 Two Atascadero teenagers were taken into custody Aug. 4 and booked on suspicion of auto theft and probation violations. Atascadero Police Department officers located the two males, 15 and 17 years old, at Atascadero's In N Out Burger last week after taking reports of eight Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:46:35 -0500