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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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Why we won’t publish photos issued by the White House

As journalists, we strive to offer independent coverage — whether it’s breaking news, investigative stories, and individual or business profiles, for example. That includes photos. 25 minutes ago

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Jayde Forzetting as Grace Jackson and other cast members during a “Pool ’63” rehearsal.

Cuesta production dives into the deep end of racial issues

Set in the summer of 1963 in Birmingham, Ala., “Pool ’63” examines how the lives of two 9-year-old girls — one black, one white — are shaped by the civil rights movement.

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... 7 minutes ago

Nation/World

A man looks at a display in a shoe store in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. Further signs emerged Wednesday to show that the paltry economic recovery in the 17-country eurozone is losing steam. Figures from Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, showed retail sales across the region fell a monthly 0.2 percent in October. That followed a 0.6 percent decline in September and confounded expectations in the markets for a modest increase. Luckily for the eurozone as a whole, its powerhouse economy, Germany, is growing strongly. Tts PMI reading of 55.4 was a 29-month high. Spain was the other bright spot as the eurozone's fourth-largest economy continues to exhibit signs of life in the face of its debt problems and a sky-high unemployment rate of around 26 percent.

European Central Bank keeps rates unchanged

The European Central Bank left its key interest rate unchanged on Thursday even though the economic recovery has slowed in the 17-country eurozone. 18 minutes ago

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