http://www.atascaderonews.com Top Stories RSS Feed Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:04:08 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2625 An employee of Heilman Salvage of Atascadero played a key role in helping the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Department locate suspects associated with a string of thefts across Central Coast beach communities. Shelly Renee Davis, 38, and Gustavo Dejesus, 33, were arrested and booked into Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:07:54 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2624 Atascadero is the latest North County venue to join the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival; it is joining Paso Robles and Santa Margarita Ranch in the 16th annual countywide event that opens tonight. Wendy Eidson, festival director, said organizers like showing films in nontraditional Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:07:13 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2623 San Luis Obispo Regional Rideshare recently announced that it is participating in a countywide campaign on St. Patrick's Day, Wednesday, March 17, when county residents will be encouraged to "be green" and leave their car behind when they commute to work. According to a Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:06:05 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2616 Atascadero resident John Foldberg is part of a new United States effort to win the trust of the citizens in Afghanistan and help the military do what the people really need instead of what commanders might only think they need. According to a PowerPoint presentation Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:05:50 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2615 The California Department of Industrial Relations, division of labor standards enforcement, has filed a lawsuit against the Carlton Hotel for failing to pay employee wages. The lawsuit cites actions against the Carlton as failure to pay wages when due; failure to pay all wages at Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:05:07 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2614 San Luis Obispo County leaders say they have measured truancy and drop-outs and have a plan to reduce those numbers. In a report compiled by the Children's Services Network task force to combat truancy and dropout, numbers vary across the county, including North County communities, Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:02:24 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2598 Educators, administrators and staff came together Thursday in a Day of Action, a peaceful protest at local school sites. The protest was an effort to send a message to state legislators that public schools cannot afford any more reductions to and elimination of programs. Atascadero Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:38:57 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2597 Geographic communities often rise and fall on the same financial tide, and the current recession has hit Atascadero hard. Jason Cross, publisher of the Atascadero News, said he is hoping for a joint effort with local businesses, organizations and government will encourage the community to Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:24:54 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2596 San Luis Obispo County's draft plan for a regional trauma care system is nearing completion, but there are mixed opinions from county health leaders regarding both the plan's process of review and its potential impact on patients. The Emergency Medical Services Agency spent nearly two Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:24:10 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2594 Construction on Atascadero's historic City Administration Building could start as early as late summer of this year, Administrative Services Director Rachelle Rickard said. While a new cost estimate of the historic building revealed that it could cost around $43 million to restore, more than Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:23:04 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2593 Though the case remains under investigation, Atascadero police have issued citations to two Atascadero teenagers for possession of marijuana and selling over-the-counter pills as painkillers. APD officers responded to a call from Atascadero Junior High School Wednesday morning at 8:48 a.m. saying that a number Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:22:12 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2585 The barn at Rancho Santa Margarita was full of prominent San Luis Obispo County people Friday afternoon for the groundbreaking of the Victory Garden to be planted next to the house on the ranch by Sunset Magazine's garden editors. The garden will be harvested at Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:55:05 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2584 Education staff across the Atascadero and Templeton unified school districts will join a statewide Day of Action, a movement to convince legislators that education is valued here and should be spared from further budget cuts, to take place on Thursday, March 4. The action is Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:51:19 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2583 With an $18 million budget for approximately 2,300 students, Templeton Unified School District is charged with trimming an additional $1 million. Last year, TUSD Chief Business Official Aaron Asplund said, the district had to trim $1.7 million from its annual budget. "We are really getting Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:46:44 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2582 When it rains, Grandpa's Lake returns in south Atascadero, and when it rains a lot, the north end of Los Palos Road floods and is closed to traffic. This year, it has rained enough and the northernmost part of Los Palos Road, just south of Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:44:50 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2577 Jason Flood, 38, wanted for a parole violation, took the wrong short-cut Wednesday when he jaywalked across El Camino Real in front of an unmarked Atascadero Police Department vehicle. When Flood turned toward the car, police said they recognized him from a photograph they had Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:16:58 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2576 In order to protect the city's first completed building by founder E.G. Lewis, the Atascadero Redevelopment Agency approved going out to bid to mothball the Printery. Mothballing, Community Development Director Warren Frace said, would include taking steps to secure the building to prevent further deterioration. Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:15:55 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2575 Hospital outpatients will be able to receive all of the required diagnostic services and meet their outpatient services needs at a single, centralized location in the North County as early as March. On Thursday, members of the Paso Robles, Templeton and Atascadero chambers of commerces, Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:15:20 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2574 In a 5-0 vote, the Atascadero City Council adopted ed staff's recommendation to classify a mural as a sign. Mayor Pro Tem Tom O'Malley, who made the motion, changed the cost to business owners from $100 to $0 with the stimulus retroactive to Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:14:27 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2573 The application for the La Plaza retail development, proposed to cover lots from Traffic Way south to the creek that runs alongside Hoover's 101, is complete. The next step is for developers to present their project at a workshop in a joint session between the Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:13:32 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2569 Congressman and House Chief Deputy Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, visited North County-based software development company IQMS last week as part of a tour to hear from employees and company officials within the 22nd Congressional District about their concerns on upcoming jobs and health care Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:35:41 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2566 Community leaders say they are committed to jumping the necessary hurdles that would allow them to move the Atascadero-Martin Polin Regional Library from its spot on Morro Road to a larger space on Capistrano Avenue. That move would take the little library from its tight-fitting Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:29:35 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2565 More changes are coming to the Wal-Mart Supercenter, slated for construction at Atascadero's Del Rio Road. The changes will eliminate a drive-through pharmacy and add an outdoor garden center. Those changes are expected to reach city officials within the next few weeks, which will Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:28:50 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2557 The Atascadero City Council has been asked by the Marine Corps League to petition the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors to support the Faces of Freedom Veterans Memorial, located on the corner of Morro and Portola Roads at the Atascadero Lake Park, as Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:21:06 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2556 Out of the tension that arose from the K-Man Cycle & Run mural being classified an over-sized sign, city staff will present the sign ordinance and mural policy options at the Atascadero City Council meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 23. In the staff report put together Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:20:13 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2555 The Atascadero Planning Commision voted 7-0 at a public hearing Tuesday in support of a staff recommendation to create a city ordinance to ban medical marijuana facilities within the city limits. The planning commission's vote will soon go to the Atascadero City Council where a Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:12:34 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2554 San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's deputies arrested 29-year-old Jessica Anne Anderson of San Miguel last week after she allegedly provided an elderly, dependent adult with Vicodin and cashed checks from a third party totaling more than $12,000. According to the sheriff's officials, the events apparently Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:11:51 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2547 Aaron Kirby, 32, of Arroyo Grande was arrested Thursday in Atascadero and charged with receiving stolen property, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a dangerous weapon and possession of an illegal knife. What led to Kirby's arrest began as a series of reports of an Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:42:03 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2546 Atascadero Police Department detectives, headed by Det. Fred Pflum, traced a series of Atascadero car thefts to one 16-year-old Atascadero boy who was arrested on New Year's Eve and remains in custody at the juvenile services center where he's been since Dec. 31, 2009. The Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:41:07 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2545 The Strategic Energy Alliance for Change will host a seminar at the Pavilion on the Lake in Atascadero on Friday, Feb. 19 to help San Luis Obispo County residents and business owners cut their energy costs and increase energy efficiency. "We just wanted to provide Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:40:19 -0600