Shandon News

I noticed something buried in a book review on Free Republic sometime back. The review was of a biography of William P. Clark.

The following services and agencies are being affected this week by Thursday's Thanksgiving Day holiday and extended observances: SCHOOLS Atascadero and Lucia Mar districts are off Monday through Friday.

A display of public art erected on the corner of 10th and Pine streets in Paso Robles this week exhibits Chumash pictographs and holographic images.

Ever since James Thurston Judd's great-grandfather planted grapes on his Utah ranch and started quietly making wine for the Mormon Church, farming and wine have been Judd family traditions.

After a temporary holdup caused by the state's budget problems, work is about to resume on a plan to preserve much of the North County's groundwater.

California Highway Patrol officers and Cal Fire crews say one person is dead after a vehicle went off the side of State Route 41, just north of Yosemite Place between Atascadero and Shandon.

A man found dead in a wrecked car near Highway 41 between Creston and Shandon last week has been identified.

One person was found dead Friday in a one-car wreck off Highway 41 between Shandon and Creston, according to the CHP.

A Shandon man was arrested after investigators reportedly found stolen property in his home Friday, nearly two weeks after he was arrested during another burglary in Paso Robles.

I admit feeling some hometown pride in being able to remind you that a Paso Robles doctor performed the first blood transfusion in this county.

San Luis Obispo County schools continue to make consistent academic gains, according to state and federal test results released Tuesday.

Two things trigger my bad wine radar: Animals on labels and wine-in-a-box. I have, fortunately, come across the exceptions -- I once even liked a wine that had a butterfly on the label.

I don't know Carson Szarek, but I'd like to thank him from the bottom of my lungs.

Locals deeply rooted in San Luis Obispo County heritage took home awards Thursday during the California Mid-State Fair Farmers Day presentations for Cattleman, Cattlewoman and Agriculturalist of the Year honors.

A car accident in Shandon claims the life of an Atascadero man. The crash happened on State Route 41 south of Clark Road just before 5 p.m. Saturday.

UPDATE 11:15 p.m.: The CHP has identified the driver killed in the Shandon wreck as Guillermo Rodriguez, 18, of Atascadero.

Because of the recent defeat of a countywide ballot measure, no mosquito control will take place in San Luis Obispo County by the end of the year.

The county's 11 public cemeteries are run fairly well but could use better supervision, clearer financial and burial records, and an active oversight board, according to a recent report by the civil grand jury.

Delays in the Los Osos sewer project are causing slowdowns in repairs to roads in the seaside community, according to conclusions by the county civil grand jury.

'Water is a deep subject.' I don't know what wise-guy first said that, but it's certainly true in California, and especially here in the North County, where many people have had to drill deeper wells.