Just after noon on Sunday, Monterey Fire and Pacific Grove Police were notified of a missing swimmer. Two witnesses said that the swimmer, Erica Fox, 55, “may have encountered a shark,” police said. The United States Coast Guard, Monterey County Sheriff’s Office, California State Parks and other agencies searched for Fox
The last shark encounter in Pacific Grove that caused injuries was June 22, 2022,when Monterey resident and then-Kelp Krawler member Steve Bruemmer was bitten while swimming.
Monthly Archives: December 2025
Dreaming Of A Christmas Massacre, Mr. Wachs?
Trustee later hid the assault rifle behind a yippiekaeyay (missing the MF ending) banner. While somewhat humorous it’s over the line of tastefulness and conduct unbecoming of a school trustee
Many residents of the popular P.G. neighborhood go all out this time of year, decorating their homes with elaborate holiday-themed displays and light shows, which draws thousands of visitors to the neighborhood.
But one rooftop exhibit, featuring a machine-gun toting character and a dead guy, was all the buzz this week on social media.Pacific Grove Unified School District trustee Mike Wachs is behind the display, which features a wooden cutout of actor Bruce Willis’ character, John McClane, in the 1988 movie “Die Hard”. The McClane cartoon, done in the style of The Simpsons animated series, is covered with blood and holds a machine gun. Other nearby displays include an exploding building and a dead man, both of which also depict scenes
from the movie.
About That $141,530 Measure To Raise More Than $141,530
David Henderson In The Wall Street Journal.
In a 1968 article in the Journal of Law and Economics, James R. Schlesinger— later defense secretary under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and energy secretary under President Jimmy Carter—wrote: “The tool of politics (which frequently becomes its objective) is to extract resources from the general taxpayer with minimum offense and to distribute the proceeds among innumerable claimants in such a way as to maximize support at the polls. Politics, so far as mobilizing support is concerned, represents the art of calculated cheating—or more precisely how to cheat without being really caught.”
The good news is that the Pacific Grove residents who alerted me to this have caught the cheaters. Is it too late? Time will tell.
Council Spends $140,000 To Find More Money
What kind of wild hiss quackery is this? Say no if you get polled.
The Pacific Grove City Council has approved paying a consultant more than $140,000 of taxpayers’ money to come up with ways to collect more from taxpayers.
After councilmembers in May gave themselves a 130 percent pay hike to significant public criticism, the group Transparent Pacific Grove led a successful citizen referendum to challenge the raise — something noted by former city councilman and group leader Luke Coletti in a Nov. 29 letter to the city. “As you know, Pacific Grove voters recently rejected [the pay raise] through the referendum process, clearly expressing opposition to increasing council compensation,” Coletti wrote. “This makes the inclusion of council stipends within a taxpayer-funded consulting contract especially concerning.”
Visitors’ Corner
Computer with an Internet Protocol address 12.227.61.194 reads the LighthouseAvenue.com blog. Nice you could come by, look around and have fun.
So where does 12.227.61.194 hail from? Why it’s the City Of Pacific Grove
