Monthly Archives: August 2016

Tourist Trap News

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Don’t visit the trail at night. Dangerous Place.

Rec Trail Open2

The sardine population col-lapsed in the 1950s as a result of overfishing and changes in ocean conditions; the canneries closed, and the trains quit running through town.

Today, Monterey’s sardine history is still in evidence, although now seen through the perspective of tourism. Remaining canneries have been repurposed and filled with shops, restaurants, galleries and museums. The railroad tracks have been pulled up and replaced with a walking/bicycling path called the Monterey Bay Coastal Recreation Trail.

Tourist Trap News

NW Boomer And Senior News. (website is no longer there)

Holmans Undergoing Transformation

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From unused department store to multimillion dollar condos for weekenders.

Holmans Bowling

The building, a downtown staple for more than 90 years, was purchased for $5.9 million by the real estate development company for the purpose of converting it into a mixed-use property. It will include 25 luxury condominiums and 18,000 square feet of retail space. While existing businesses Jeninni Kitchen + Wine Bar, Grove Nutrition Center and Monterey County Bank will remain on the ground floor, there will be room for eight to 10 additional retail businesses.

Holmans Undergoing Transformation

Don’t You Just Love Public Transit?

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Nekked drug users riding without a care.

Shoeless Rider Lights up Apparent Crack Pipe While on Bart

Note to BART: Please require your crack-smoking riders to wear pants.
It’s bad enough that some people get away with smoking cigarettes while on BART. But a rider puffing crack in the handicapped seats while wearing a towel(?) draped over his crotch, well, that’s going to give a transit system a bad name.

Don’t You Just Love Public Transit?

Fire On Holman Highway!

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Not a repeat of 1987.

Power has been restored to the more than 6,000 residents of Pacific Grove and unincorporated Monterey Peninsula who lost power after the incident, according to a Pacific Gas & Electric spokesperson.

The cause of the fire appears to be downed tree falling onto a utility pole, McCarthy adds, but that information could change as fire crews gather more information.

Highway 68 is currently closed from Skyline Forest Dr. into Pacific Grove.

Fire On Holman Highway!

Tree Sacrificed For Ugly Art

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Termites do your best.

“We’re about 60 percent into it,” said Jorge Rodriguez, the artist leading the project and working alongside fellow sculptors Javier Campos and Neftali Palomares commissioned to do the work. “We’re now going over the fine details.”

“The transformation of natural resources into chainsaw ‘art’ is an absurd practice within an environment such as Berwick Park,” said Coletti, in a prepared statement. “Many, including myself, want to see a living tree re-established here instead.”

Tree Sacrificed For Ugly Art

Pre School Kitchen Shut Down

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Thanks Michelle Obama

The school’s food preparation teacher needs to get a food handler permit — something that can be done online — but also, the kitchen will have to be remodeled to be approved by the Monterey County Health Department.

Right now “it does not pass inspection,” Miller said. “We’re now looking for a consultant to tell us what we need for passing inspection. The board is going to have to get a contract. It will take time to design and for the county to review, then the board to approve the expenditure. That will take some time.”

Pre School Kitchen Shut Down

Honeymooners Stroke Stroke Stroke For A Record

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Riaan and Vasti Manser, who just spent two months shoulder to shoulder rowing 2,400 miles from Monterey to Hawaii, should find themselves together not only in this life, but the next.

The South African couple, who opted to spend their honeymoon rowing their way to a place where most honeymooners go to lounge on the beach and sip from drinks with little umbrellas, on Tuesday finished they journey in a record 39 days, four hours and 27 minutes. They also severely tested their relationship.

Honeymooners Stroke Stroke Stroke For A Record

Money For Monarchs

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“Past mishaps”
Butterfly Tree Stump

Fish & Wildlife to grant money for restoration and improvements.

“We walk around and talk about the state of the sanctuary and what the activities are that we have decided are good for the grove,” said Weiss. “The idea is that we want to be open and transparent about why we recommend doing certain things to keep every one on the same page about what’s happening in the grove.”

That transparency is so important to Weiss and city officials because of the past mishaps that have occurred with the city’s management of the sanctuary.

Money For Monarchs

Pebble Beach’s Good Deed Moves Forward

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Geeze, PB’s workers told they are in the wrong place. All I ever saw in the forests over the boundary was trash and yard clippings dumped by P.G. residents.

DMP Del Monte Park

In giving the 24-unit project the thumbs-up, the supervisors praised the proposal as an exemplary effort by a private company to provide employee housing and rejected the opponents’ argument that the project was in the wrong place.

Opponents, led by attorney Pearl Kan, who filed an appeal of the county Planning Commission approval of the proposal in June insisted they supported affordable housing, including in the toney forest, but argued the proposed 13.2-acre site off SFB Morse Drive adjacent to the Del Monte Park neighborhood of Pacific Grove was the wrong site because development would mean losing 725 trees in the Monterey pine forest and a prized location often visited by the neighbors.

Pebble Beach’s Good Deed Moves Forward

City Council Candidates Line Up

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Robert Huitt
Jenny McAdams
Nick Smith
Cynthia Garfield
Andrew Kubica
Alan Cohen

Vote Machine

The Pacific Grove City Council race includes a lone incumbent and five new candidates, all of whom are vying for three council seats.

All the city council candidates are expected to join mayoral candidates Bill Kampe and Dan Miller in the candidate forum on Sept. 8 at the Pacific Grove Community Center, 515 Junipero Ave.

City Council Candidates Line Up