Templeton News

Over the past 30 years, levels in the underground aquifer have dropped precipitously, 80 to 100 feet or more in some areas.

At least one of Templeton's elected officials is rude to the public and as a group they have failed to comply with laws set in place to provide transparency and to allow for public participation, according to a San Luis Obispo County Grand Jury report released last week.

The Santa Maria Reds scored one run in the top of the eighth inning and two more in the ninth to rally for a 3-1 summer collegiate baseball victory over the North County Indians on Tuesday night at Vineyard Athletic Park in Templeton.

The project will eliminate a safety hazard on the 260-foot-long bridge just south of Center Street by adding sufficient bridgewidth to accommodate sidewalks.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid recently released its compiled data on what over 3,000 hospitals across the country charge for 100 of the most common discharge diagnostic codes under the diagnosis related group system, and boy did the DRG really hit the fan.

Editor's note: This is the first installment in a five-part series. Coming Monday: How the falling groundwater levels have affected four North County homeowners and businesses.

Templeton High product Michael Frigon went 4 for 5 with a double to help the North County Indians to an 8-2 summer collegiate baseball victory over the visiting Santa Maria Wahoos on Friday at Vineyard Athletic Park in Templeton.

After a roughly five-month search, the Templeton Community Services District has hired a new general manager: the former city manager of Lemoore, who was asked to resign from that post in March.

A small gathering at Hammersky in Templeton, California, photographed by Mike Larson.

The special Tuesday through Saturday service starts Friday and will continue through August 24, according to a press release from the Regional Transit Authority.

Be sure to give hanging baskets a consistent water supply in June. Warm days can cause them to dry out.

A 21-year-old Templeton man was arrested Sunday after Paso Robles police received a call from someone reporting that he had detained a suspected car burglar.

Maybe it's a religious thing - like self-flagellation - or maybe they just want all of us pasty car-dwellers to shed a whiskey-flavored tear over the sad state of disrepair into which our unused limbs have fallen.