Community

Still exhibit registration open for the Mid-State Fair

–The Still Exhibit Competition Handbooks are now available online. Still Exhibits include departments like Fine Arts, Flowers, Farm Art, Home Arts, Photography and Produce. Continuing Full Article

County providing food, medication resources for seniors or self-isolating residents

–Self-isolating San Luis Obispo County residents 65 and older and those with chronic medical conditions who can’t get to the grocery store or pharmacy now Full Article

Community Health Centers need donations, respirators, disinfectant wipes

–Community Health Centers of the Central Coast, which provides healthcare to the medically underserved communities in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, is stepping Full Article

Waste Management postpones clean up, shred event

–In response to the latest coronavirus COVID-19 information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other relevant federal, state and local agencies and Full Article

Letter: Why is Vons grocery store refusing to implement health department guidelines?

To the editor, The director of the Vons Market in Atascadero today stated he was refusing to implement the County and State Public Health Departments’ directions Full Article

City hosts El Camino Real traffic calming meeting

–The City of Atascadero conducted the second of four meetings to encourage public input into plans to reconfigure traffic on El Camino Real through downtown. Full Article

2020 Census questionnaire now available online

–Starting today, households across San Luis Obispo County will start receiving a mailed invitation to participate in the United States’ once-a-decade head count. Most households Full Article

Help build a ‘bioswale’ at Atascadero Lake to improve water quality

–Join the California Conservation Corps Watershed Stewards Program in partnership with AmeriCorps, the Upper Salinas-Las Tablas Resource Conservation District and the City of Atascadero, in Full Article

State health department says gatherings of 250 people or more should be rescheduled, canceled

Smaller gatherings can proceed if organizers ‘implement 6 feet of social distancing’ –Governor Gavin Newsom announced that California public health officials have issued an updated Full Article