http://www.atascaderonews.com Top Stories RSS Feed Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:04:15 -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 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2536 Templeton's Davis Project, a proposed low-income residential development, got tentative approval from the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors, but with environmental questions the applicant is expected to answer before final approval is awarded. The proposed development involves construction of more than 100 homes, Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:32:29 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2535 Transitions-Mental Health Association has launched a new campaign to raise awareness and lower the stigma surrounding mental illness in San Luis Obispo County, buying ads and billboard space directing viewers to a Web site hosting a 15-minute documentary video. SLO the Stigma launched last week Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:31:14 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2534 An MRI, additional surgical beds and a diagnostic center are all expected to be unveiled at Twin Cities Community Hospital by the end of the year with some operational already. The projects total $7.6 million and will result in 9,500 square feet of additional space Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:30:32 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2533 As the executive director of Atascadero Main Street, Steve Martin applied for a collaborative marketing grant that would give approximately $200,000 for a facilitator to work with six of the city's main tourism agencies, City Manager Wade McKinney announced at the Jan. 26 Atascadero City Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:28:56 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2515 Michael Darrien Simmons, 43, and Janet Ella Simmons, 50, both of Atascadero, remain in San Luis Obispo County Jail as of press time Tuesday after being arrested and charged with attempted murder Friday night. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:28:13 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2514 Controversy arose over a mural painted on the side of K-Man Cycle & Run's building near the intersection of Santa Rosa Road and Highway 101. Owner Keith Schmidt and artist Kathleen King say it is a public art, while city staff classify it as an Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:27:36 -0600 http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.atascaderonews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2513 With its advancement to the San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department, a trauma system plan for the county moves ones step closer to becoming a reality. The plan, once enacted, would result in clearly defining trauma cases, establishing trauma protocol for emergency medical providers Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:27:04 -0600