“It seemed like the endless project,” Cindy Walter said of the undertaking she and her husband, Ted, took on four years ago.

Their lives have changed in that time, Walter said — she had two surgeries and has another scheduled — and they decided their Passionfish restaurant in Pacific Grove is all they want to handle now. They have owned it for 13 years.

Walter said she and her husband invested time, emotion and thousands of dollars in the Old Bath House project. As it proceeded, “there were more and more expenses,” she said.

I’m telling ya, this would be easy:

Passionfish Owners Lose Passion For Old Bath House

Richard Rosen, LOL. Defender of David Stamm and Chowdergate lawyer.

Richard Rosen and Jeanine Strong say they will not only prove the nonprofit co-op is operating legally, but will go after the “real violators” — local governments and law enforcement agencies that have refused to implement the medicinal marijuana law.

In the 14 years since the Compassionate Care Act legalized medicinal marijuana in the state, said Rosen, not one medical marijuana facility has been authorized in the county.

“While the rest of the state is following the law, Monterey County is and has been consistently flaunting the law,” he said. “It’s a terrible and dangerous policy because when government ignores the law, it encourages everyone to ignore the law.”

The rest of the state is realizing that it’s about money and not compassion. They are closing down dispensaries.

L.A. Times:

The city of Los Angeles has warned 439 medical marijuana dispensaries that they must shut their doors by June 7. City prosecutors began notifying dispensary operators the first week of May, the first step in what could be a lengthy and expensive legal battle to regain control over pot sales.

New Monterey Marijuana Market Gets Lawyer

Keeping us all safe from encroaching Episcopalians, good job!

A Superior Court judge has upheld Pacific Grove’s right to pursue a cross-complaint in an ongoing legal battle over expansion of a retirement home into a neighborhood.

After a January hearing, city-appointed hearing officer David Spradling found that Canterbury Woods committed four violations of city zoning laws by having dwellings outside the retirement-home campus as additional client units and providing them the same meals and housekeeping services.

He said Canterbury Woods violated the area’s single-family residential zoning by introducing a commercial use in the neighborhood when it expanded beyond the main retirement complex. But he didn’t find the retirement home in violation of its use permit.

P.G. Wins One Against The Episcopalians

Notice that the signs are only in English?

“They were everywhere the last time we came, but we didn’t see them this time, probably because we didn’t see them in the same places as last time,” Carey said, adding that his family took the warnings seriously.

“But we don’t go all the way into the water. Just to about here,” he added, motioning to his lower leg.

Posted at area beaches by Monterey County Environmental Health staff when beachwater bacteria levels exceed state standards, the 8-inch-by-11-inch signs reading “Warning! Ocean water contact may cause illness” hung at three entrances to the beach on Saturday.

Pollution Warnings Ignored At Lovers Point

Tax dollars at work. I thought there were no dogs allowed on the beach?

A small, white “Jack Russell terrier”-type dog decided to go for an impromptu swim Wednesday afternoon while walking with its owners on a Pacific Grove beach.

The dog swam out to a rock about 10 feet offshore near Beach Street and Ocean View Boulevard.

The dog didn’t swim back.

The owners called police, who alerted state lifeguards about the pooch on the perch, said fire Capt. Jim Brown.

Ocean Rescue! Lifeguards & Police Respond. For A Dog.

He gave up and used the wetsuit. Chase failed to make the trip last year. This year his cause for restrictive seafood rules are mentioned with his other sustainable BS not mentioned. Guess swimming amongst the seafood has better mojo than building schools in Afghanistan.

Bruckner Chase, 44, wanted to become the second person to finish the swim without a wetsuit — English Channel rules — but the toxic stings of jellyfish forced him to abandon that plan about two hours into the 14-hour swim.

Chase did the swim to attract attention to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, sustainable seafood programs and the Blue Ocean Film Festival, a five-day event that begins today in Monterey.

Cross Bay Swimmer Surrenders

Hmmm, them scientists might be on to something.

The most recent sea otter census, released by the organization earlier this month, showed a continued downward trend in the number of both adults and pups in California.

August encounters with adult great whites are consistent with findings from a research team led by biologists from Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station. By placing electronic tracking tags on 179 sharks since 2000, they’ve documented that adult great whites congregate near sea lion and elephant seal breeding colonies in Central and Northern California between August and February.

Sea Otter Population Shrinks While Shark Population Grows

Next time slip them sleeping pills or strong laxatives.

After being given the Oxycontin, the man left the store. He might have left the area in a late 1980s or early 1990s dark gray or black Ford Explorer, police said. The SUV was dirty, police said.

The robber was described as Latino, in his mid-20s, 5 foot 7 inches to 5 foot 9 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds. He was wearing a black baseball cap with a DC shoe logo, a blue hooded sweatshirt with white writing on the back, gray sweatpants and white shoes, police said.

Pharmacy Robbery At Safeway

Becoming routine around here.

County health officials today briefly lifted a health advisory at Lovers Point Beach in Pacific Grove, but reposted the warning two hours later.

Beachgoers were warned to avoid contact with the water because of high bacteria levels.

Lovers Point Beach Polluted

Don’t forget to vote.

The tax would expire in 10 years, and there would be no annual fluctuations.

A similar parcel tax measure last November failed by a narrow margin to get the required two-thirds majority. Language in the new initiative was written to assure the public that funds raised would support only the library and not be transferred to other city departments.

Tax You Very Much!