Paso pizza shop closure and a wrong-way driver’s arrest. Today’s top stories

The Tribune’s coverage this week spans everything from a suspected DUI crash downtown to the birth of red panda cubs at the Santa Barbara Zoo.

Here’s a digest of the top stories from July 9, 2026:

• Marv’s Pizza closes, Antonia’s moves in: After three years in business, Marv’s Pizza and Sports Bar in Paso Robles has closed, with former USC basketball coach Bob Cantu saying he wants to return to basketball full-time. Antonia’s Pizza, currently in downtown San Luis Obispo, is taking over the 12th Street location and hopes to open before the Mid-State Fair.
• Fire damages Jewish Community Center property: A fire ignited by a fire pit burned more than 18 acres on July 5, including parts of the Jewish Community Center’s 10-acre property off O’Connor Way in San Luis Obispo. The blaze damaged one stable but spared the temple, olive grove and Play Grove education center, and Cal Poly’s Alpha Epsilon Pi has launched a GoFundMe for repairs ahead of summer camp season.
• Wrong-way driver arrested in downtown SLO crash: A Ford pickup traveling the wrong way on Marsh Street turned onto Carmel Street and collided with a Chevy pickup around 10:45 p.m. Wednesday. The Chevy driver was hospitalized with minor injuries and the Ford driver was arrested on suspicion of DUI, San Luis Obispo police said.
• Cal Poly waitlist admissions data: So far in the 2026 admissions cycle, 481 students have been admitted off Cal Poly’s waitlist, with the final deadline set for July 15. The unranked waitlist varies dramatically year to year — fall 2023 had 13,176 waitlisted students with just 193 admitted, while fall 2020 saw 4,032 of 8,816 waitlisted students accepted.
• Extreme heat watch through Thursday: San Luis Obispo County is under an extreme heat watch through Thursday at 8 p.m., with interior areas potentially hitting 100 degrees and Paso Robles reaching a high near 98. The National Weather Service warns of high heat illness risk for the very young, very old, people without air conditioning and those active outdoors.
• Paso Food Co-op nears membership goal: After a decade of recruiting, the Paso Food Co-op has reached 390 of the 500 members needed to open a local grocery cooperative. Board member Kermit Komm said this first stage is the hardest, and if approved, it would be the county’s second co-op after the SLO Food Co-op, which has operated for nearly 50 years and reported 1,700 members in April 2025.
• Potential Amazon warehouse cleared to move forward in Santa Maria: The Golden State Environmental Justice Alliance has withdrawn its appeal of the Santa Maria Planning Commission’s May approval of a package delivery warehouse project, reportedly for Amazon, clearing the way for groundbreaking within weeks. The 24/7 facility on Stowell Road would run up to 345 delivery vans and 34 line-haul trucks daily across a 125-square-mile service area.
• First red panda cubs born at Santa Barbara Zoo in decades: The Santa Barbara Zoo welcomed two red panda cubs on July 2 to first-time parents Ruby and Raj — the first cubs born at the zoo since 1993. The endangered species has fewer than 10,000 mature individuals left in the wild, and the cubs will remain behind the scenes with their mother for about three months.

The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. The source reporting referenced above was written and edited entirely by journalists.