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From left, Pattie Van Orden, Letha Blythe, Greta Chandler and Bobbie Phillips package cookies during a cookie exchange Wednesday at a meeting of the Templeton Women's Civic Club.

Templeton Women’s Civic Club looks back on 100 years of service

The public is invited to help celebrate the Templeton Women’s Civic Club’s 100th anniversary at a Dec. 7 open house. The free event features music, storytelling, refreshments, a raffle and displays depicting the club’s history.

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Cuesta College freshman Kaylee Williams is a former Mission Prep standout.

Cuesta women's basketball rolls into home opener undefeated

Cougars have gone undefeated, they’ve made it look easy and they’re beginning to earn respect across the state going into tonight’s home opener in the 30th Annual Phillips 66 Tournament against Hartnell at 8.

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Twin Cities Community Hospital in Templeton.

SLO County hospitals receive top grades for patient safety

Four San Luis Obispo County hospitals recently received the top grade for patient safety by hospital ratings organization, The Leapfrog Group.

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The North County Chorus.

North County Chorus honors veterans in song

The group's Sunday concert, Lifting Our Voices in Tribute to Veterans, is a preview of next summer’s Freedom Tour, which will include stops in Boston, Philadelphia, Arlington, Va., and Washington, D.C. 3 hours ago

Living

The Bagwell home features a mix of Western and wine country décor.

Tour Paso Robles homes decorated for Christmas

Becky Lewis is a home tour aficionado. She has been on more than 40 home and garden tours, driving as far as 250 miles to attend a particularly intriguing one. So when she was brainstorming fundraising ideas for her Relay For Life Pink Angels Team...

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Wilma Huber is bundled up against the cold wind while shoveling outside her apartment Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, in Carson, N.D. as an arctic blast swept across the Northern Plains. Thursday’s projected high is minus-6, falling to minus-10 by Saturday, with overnight lows to 24 below as a major winter storm bulldozed from the Rockies eastward. The National Weather Service forecast a foot or more of snow in some areas of the Upper Midwest, with freezing rain possible for parts of the Great Lakes.

Shrugging off winter's bite in N. Dakota oilfields

Some people were choosing to stay indoors as an arctic blast swept across the Northern Plains, but the prospect of temperatures not cracking single digits had a different effect on the roustabouts, roughnecks and thousands of others working outside... 6 minutes ago

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Celebrity chef, Nigella Lawson, arrives at Isleworth Crown Court in London, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. Lawson arrived at court on Thursday for a second day where she will testify as a prosecution witness at the trial of Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo, longtime employees who worked as nannies, cleaners and assistants in the couple's London home. The Grillos — sisters from Calabria in southern Italy — are accused of using credit cards loaned to them by Lawson and Saatchi for household expenses to spend 685,000 pounds (more than $1 million) on luxury clothes, accessories and rooms at high-end hotels.

Nigella: I won't be 'bullied by lies' on drug use

Television cook and author Nigella Lawson on Thursday accused lawyers for two former assistants of treating her like a suspect rather than a witness, as she again denied allegations of heavy drug use. 6 minutes ago

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