Monthly Archives: December 2010

$42,000 Down The (Historically Reviewed) Sewer

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Reviews that come in to play when a property is sold or remolded or torn down? Make the property owner foot the bill.

The City of Pacific Grove is going to pay a consultant more than $40,000 to get a better handle on the city’s historic buildings. The P.G. City Council voted Wednesday night to spend $42,400 to prepare an “historic context statement,” which will include describing how the city’s architecture evolved.

While spending $40,000 on a report in a city that is having severe financial troubles may seem superfluous, Burgess said in the long run, the report could save money for the city and residents, who must fork over from $200 to $1,000 for a historic evaluation.

$42,000 Down The (Historically Reviewed) Sewer

Sheriff Says No Rapists In Pebble Beach

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Remain calm, all is well?

Sheriff’s Cmdr. Tracy Brown wouldn’t divulge any of the details of a rape reported in Pebble Beach last month, but he said residents should not worry that a rapist is lurking in their neighborhood. “Because of privacy issues, I’m not allowed to discuss in detail the specific case, but there is no reason for anyone else in the area to be concerned about there being a rapist in their area,” he said Wednesday. “I don’t believe there’s anyone in danger at this time.”
On Nov. 12 at around 7 p.m., a Pebble Beach woman dialed 911 and reported that an unknown Hispanic male had broken into her house and raped her, according to a report by deputy Joe Crivello.

Sheriff Says No Rapists In Pebble Beach

Grenades Do Not Make Good Knickknacks

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Two World War II hand grenades were found inside a Pacific Grove garage on Grove (Acre) Avenue Wednesday morning.

Relatives of the former tenant were cleaning out the house when the found the grenades. They say that the WWII vet that used to live in the house probably got the grenades as “mementos” and then must have forgotten that he even had them.

Grenades Do Not Make Good Knickknacks

DirecTV Viewers Could Lose KSBW

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No, its not a Comcast NBC buyout threat.

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KSBW-TV 8 announced Friday that KSBW-TV may no longer be carried on DirecTV satellite systems effective January 1, 2011, if the parties are unable to conclude retransmission consent negotiations currently underway.

Satellite distributors are prohibited by law from carrying broadcasters’ signals without their consent. The removal of KSBW’s signal from the DirecTV system will only result if negotiations between representatives of Hearst Television Inc., KSBW’s parent company, and DirecTV are unsuccessful in reaching a conclusion before December 31, 2010.

DirecTV Views Could Lose KSBW

Mystery Giver Leaves Money In P.G.

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In some cities there are kind people that give out money to the poor or homeless so that they might enjoy a bit of comfort that many take for granted. In P.G. they ask you to buy a $20 plate of noodles or an eight dollar jar of pickles.

Free Money

A total of 11 people have reported receiving cards filled with anywhere from $10 to $50. The cards included a list of suggestions of what to do with the money.

The suggestions include donating the money, spending it as a Pacific Grove restaurant or adding more money and blessing someone else.

Mystery Giver Leaves Money In P.G.

Letters From The Editor: PG Pothole Patching Poorly Performed

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There’s a real jolting one on the S/E corner of Forest & Sinex. Try going around a left-turning car and BAM you are out of alignment.
Spruce Pot Hole

Ron Russell writes:

Grrrrr! Yes, Pacific Grove has me growling again. Not long ago, I facetiously wrote that P.G.’s road workers must do their shoddy repairs with a butter knife and a ladle. Now it seems they’ve even lost those tools.

What I find incomprehensible is that when a pothole is patched, the workmanship is so substandard that within a month it returns, often worse than before.

Perhaps the city should consider a volunteer brigade of retired contractors or citizens to help out. I’d gladly donate some time to fix some of the potholes in my neighborhood if the materials were provided.

Letters From The Editor: Pothole Patching Poorly Performed

Treasures Of Kalisa Auctioned Off

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Other items to be auctioned from Kalisa’s estate include memorabilia from the restaurant, including the hand-drawn wall menu, a rusty ambulance door emblazoned with the words “Dining Out Is Entertainment at Kalisa’s Cosmopolitan Gourmet Place,” and a photo board depicting a four-foot-tall image of Steinbeck, along with smaller pictures of Bing Crosby and Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell.

I remember the old A1 Ambulance that served as a rolling billboard..

Treasures Of Kalisa Auctioned Off

Students Searched With No Cause?

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If I say that I felt that a teacher acted suspiciously would they get the same treatment? There’s no CTA union thugs to protect the students..

In her email she wrote, “…a teacher said my child who was waiting for his father to drop off his lunch, looked or acted or moved in a suspicious way and made a request to the vice principal my child be searched.”

Teresa Brunson is with the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District. She said school officials and law enforcement that work with them follow strict procedures when searching students. She said they are allowed to conduct searches when there is, quote, “reasonable doubt.”

“That can be anything – our direct observations, tips from other students or staff, an anonymous tip, and then we just follow through with that,” Brunson said.

Students Searched With No Cause?