Keep humans off the beach, sharks can’t be far behind.
A weaned northern elephant seal pup was spotted at Lovers Point Wednesday. According to Giancarlo Rulli, a spokesperson for the Marine Mammal Center, the center’s response team placed signage in the area due to the popularity of Lovers Point and the growing crowds.
Wesley Langkamp joins the dumb criminals club.
A Pacific Grove man got a response he wasn’t expecting when he texted the wrong co-conspirator while trying to set up an armed confrontation with a group of men in Monterey Aug. 17, according to Monterey Police Lt. Ethan Andrews- Instead of his cohort, the police showed up.
The sender, later identified as 38-year-old Wesley Langkamp, “requested assistance in confronting a group of males.” He then texted the officer that he was waiting on North Fremont Street and described the car he was driving so, a few MPD officers headed to the area and found Langkamp in his vehicle,
Pacific Grove Police Cmdr. David Santos said officers were called about the crime at 10:20 p.m. “The department responded to a reported assault where an 18-year-old male employee of Safeway was not at work for a period of time,” he said Thursday. “Upon his return, he appeared to have been assaulted.”
On May 26, a fire broke out at what’s known as the LaPorte Mansion at 1030 Lighthouse, severely damaging the five-bedroom, four-bathroom home, built in 1895. It appeared in Hollywood productions in the 1950s and 1970s but was in need of renovation. After the fire, the owner, Bill Turrentine, opted to tear it down.
A worker told The Pine Cone Thursday morning that the process of tearing down the home could begin Monday and that crews would likely be there all week cleaning up the remnants of the demolished home.
Good location. Are the apartments on the second floor still rented out? Hope they don’t have to share a sewer line with Pavel’s.
Resident Michaela Kuenster has proposed opening a business called Pop & Hiss in a 2,640-square-foot commercial building at 215 Forest Ave., formerly the site of a silk screen shop.
Kuenster — a music teacher who moved to P.G. from Los Angeles five years ago — said she envisions a record shop, food, a live music venue that could accommodate about 80 people, and an enclosed 1,450-square-foot beer garden to the rear of the building on Grand Avenue.
Racers whiz by, tourists block the paved portion. Admin here was nearly run over by two E-Bikes on the sidewalk downtown.
Pacific Grove took a different approach when e-bikes started appearing on the scene, and in 2020 set a unilateral 12mph speed limit on its portion of the Rec Trail. I am not a fast biker, but on flat ground, I can tell you that you don’t even have to break a sweat to exceed 12mph on a regular old human-powered bike. Five minutes of observation in P.G. is all it takes to see this bizarrely low speed limit violated, and the same old premise that predated the speed limit comes into play: Pay attention and be courteous.
Unfortunately, for busy stretches of multi-use resources like the Rec Trail, “pay attention and be courteous” may not be enough clarity. The potential for widening the Rec Trail is low, Garcia tells me, based on right-of-way. Look for more on potential signage and speed limits to come in the coming years as the data gathering process ramps up.
The DEI committee is still just an idiotic waste of time even without the bitter, hateful Tina Rau. Disagree with them and you can be called a Nazi.
A draft of the calendar identifies widely recognized
religious holidays observed in the United States such as
Christmas, Easter, Hanukkah and Yom Kippur. It also
includes dates important to Buddhism and Islam, along
with lesser known events and religions, such as Zartosht
No-Diso, which honors the prophet of Zoroastrianism —
a religion estimated to have a mere 120,000 followers
worldwide.
“By no means is this calendar extensive. How can it
be?” Mark said Wednesday, later adding that she didn’t
think there “could ever be too many items on it.”
So I’ve researched a bit and came up with more diverse and equitable holidays to put on the calendar.
A’Phabet Day or No “L” Day
Alien Abduction Day
Barbie-in-a-Blender Day
Blah Blah Blah Day
Call of the Horizon Day
Clashing Clothes Day
Cow Milked While Flying in an Airplane Day
Create a Great Funeral Day
Curmudgeons Day
Do a Grouch a Favor Day
Dumbstruck Day
Everything You Think Is Wrong Day (DEI founded on this day)
Extraterrestrial Culture Day
False Confession Day
Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales
Fill Our Staplers Day
Gorilla Suit Day
Haunted Refrigerator Night
Hawaiian Shirt Day
Hobbit Day
Hurray for Buttons Day
Invite an Alien to Live with You Day
Jump Over Things Day
Keep Off the Grass Day
Kyrgyzstan National Hat Day
Look for Circles Day
Measure Your Feet Day
Middle Name Pride Day
My Way Day (A favorite of DEI members)
National Bad Poetry Day
National Big Forehead Day
National Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
National Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day
National Emo Day
National Griper’s Day
National Handcuff Day
National I LOVE My feet Day
National Lumpy Rug Day
National Name Your Car Day
National Paranormal Day
National Reach As High As You Can Day
National Rubber Eraser Day
National Ugly Truck Contest Day
No Socks Day
Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day
Quitters Day
Send an Electronic Greeting Card Day
Sock Monkey Day
Stay Away From Fresno Day
Take it in the Ear Day
Talk Like William Shakespeare Day
Thumb Appreciation Day