Casting Call! A New P.G. Biography/Documentary

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Breaking The Law?

Cathy casting call

  • NOW CASTING: Disgraced Pacific Grove Police Chief – Documentary Production

  • Feature documentary about Chief Madalone’s October 2024 resignation amid controversy.

  • Seeking actor (50s-60s, female) to portray former chief in dramatized sequences.

  • Film explores: Brady List violations, constitutional training failures, Oakland/SF SWAT mentality clash with coastal community values, community rumors surrounding departure.

  • Interviews with locals reveal suspicions about resignation circumstances. Documentary presents eyewitness accounts, public records, community perspectives.Compensation: TBD. Auditions March 2026.Send headshot/resume to production email.​​​​​​

Casting Call! A New P.G. Biography/Documentary

Coyotes Hunting On Golf Course

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Not trying to get a birdie, perhaps a juicy fawn that are in season.

The canine started digging into the grass a little before giving up, shaking its head a bit. Interestingly, the
healthy-looking animal — which hung around the area for
15 to 20 minutes — was the second coyote the McDowells
spotted on the golf course. Minutes before, at another spot,
they saw a larger one that the people they were golfing
with first thought was a wolf.

Coyotes Hunting On Golf Course

P.G. Woman Nearly Strangled To Death

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Who teaches men such disgusting behavior?

Anthony Ray Ramirez

On March 2, at about 5:50 p.m., Pacific Grove police officers were called to a home on Jewell Avenue for a report of a battery. When they arrived, they found a woman who said she’d been beaten up by her boyfriend, Anthony Ray Ramirez, 53. The woman had visible injuries. “She reported that during the assault, Ramirez placed his hand over her mouth and nose in an attempt to smother her and, in a separate act, placed both hands around her neck and applied pressure, restricting her ability to breathe,” according to Pacific Grove police.

P.G. Woman Nearly Strangled To Death

P.G.H.S. Coach Marquis Brion Pickrom Charged With Felony

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P.G.U.S.D. Not hiring the best.

Marquis Pickrom

Marquis Pickrom

“A felony was committed by Marquis Brion Pickrom, in that he committed an act of sexual penetration against Jane Doe, who was under the age of 18 years,” says the complaint filed by deputy district attorney Danielle VanDamme.
Pacific Grove Police say that between August 2023 and October 2025 — after Pickrom became the girls basketball coach — he groomed the girl. The student told investigators that Pickrom gave her special attention, made personal and romantic comments about her, and sent her messages through Instagram, She was 16 to 18 years old at the time. She also told police that Pickrom kissed her and touched her in a sexual manner. School officials learned of the alleged impropriety after she told friends about her relationship with the coach.

P.G.H.S. Coach Marquis Brion Pickrom Charged With Felony

Suspicious Stranger Sought For Offering Rides To School

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Has the faculty been ruled out?

The student told police she was followed and saw the man and the vehicle two or three more times during her walk to school. The incident was immediately reported to school officials, who notified police.

The suspect was described as an Asian man in his 40s. The vehicle was initially described as a white sedan, but police said interviews indicate it was more likely a smaller white SUV or crossover.

“Officers are actively investigating and are working directly with the student and her family. Officers have completed a thorough check of the area and surrounding area and are conducting interviews and checking available surveillance video sources in the surrounding area,” police said in a social media post.

Suspicious Stranger Sought For Offering Rides To School

P.G. Loves More Recycled Water For Growth

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Enoy that refreshing toilet to the tap water, come heres and tourists

toilet to tap

Council members on Wednesday night directed city manager Matt Mogensen to ask the State Water Resources Control Board to modify a long-standing order that has prevented the installation of new water meters on undeveloped lots and increases in water use at existing addresses where California American Water provides service.

The Monterey Peninsula Water Management District contends — and Pacific Grove agrees — that the prohibition should end because the wastewater recycling project Pure Water Monterey, which went online in 2021 and was recently expanded, will provide plenty of water for the Peninsula for the next several decades.

P.G. Loves More Recycled Water For Growth

The Vote For City Council Pay Is Happening

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And of course the city council puts the ballot on the June elections, when voter turnout is especially low.

Politics

voters will have a chance in June to decide whether to give members of the city council a pay raise, the council decided Wednesday. The council voted unanimously to hold a special election June 2 to allow residents to decide whether to increase the monthly stipend from $420 to $987 for council members and from $700 to $1,645 for the mayor. If it passes, the change will cost taxpayers more than $59,312 annually. At the meeting, resident Inge Lorentzen Daumer questioned how the council could be “fiscally responsible” when a special election is “going to cost way more” than putting the raise before voters on the Nov. 3 general election ballot. “I think it’s about time you actually show this for what it is — immediate greed,” she said. “Our city is struggling.”

 

The Vote For City Council Pay Is Happening

The Deer Are Fawning

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Signs in yards are OK, but please don’t nail or attach them to PG&E owned utility poles. Hazardous to workers that need to climb them.

Deer Xing

“I ‘ve had a report from a supporter who said they have several does in their yard that are very pregnant,” Garcia said. “A photo they sent me shows three does that look like they will have twins soon.”

Garcia, a former mayor of Pacific Grove, said numerous fawns have been killed in the city, mostly by vehicles, Last year, members of the group placed signs in residents’ yards warning drivers to slow down during the baby season.

The Deer Are Fawning

Having Ben Harvey On Staff Is Expensive!

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So who/what could be the root cause of all the litigation?

Harvey honk

The city attorney’s office currently operates with an annual budget of $688,800 — of which it has expended $403,000 through Jan. 13 of this year. In fiscal year 2023-24, the city attorney’s budget was $398,180. In 2024-25, it was raised to $625,000 and again increased in April of that year by an additional $520,000.

Ojai City Manager Benjamin Harvey clarified at a Jan. 29 meeting of the city’s Finance & Budget Committee that rising legal costs were largely related to a number of pending litigation proceedings and that the city was presently working with as many as six law firms on a litany of unspecified issues.

Having Ben Harvey On Staff Is Expensive!

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