Monthly Archives: February 2026

Upside Down Car Found Floundering In Harbor

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Not the car found in the cove:

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According to MPD Lt. Ethan Andrews, shortly after 2 am. Feb. 1, offcers were dispatched to a submerged vehicle at the boat launch ramp near the U-S- Coast Guard pier. They arrived to find the four-door sedan overtumed and in the water “The vehicle was unoccupied and resting on its roof,” he said.
Surveillance video captured by a nearby camera showed the car “driving through the parking lot at a high rate of speed and down the boat launch ramp into the water,” according to Andrews. “The vehicle floated for a brief period before sinking.” They have the where, when and how, but not the who or the why.

Upside Down Car Found Floundering In Harbor

Luke Colletti’s Initiative To Allow Voters Decision To Increase Council Pay

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Vote Machine

Coletti’s move comes after the P.G. City Council in May 2025 gave itself the raise — after rejecting requests to allow voters to decide — and considered giving itself medical coverage, both of which drew significant opposition from residents.

Council members sought to increase their monthly stipends from $420 to $966 and from $700 to $610 for the mayor, which would have cost taxpayers about $50,000 annually, and more with benefits. Members Lori McDonnell and Paul Walkingstick voted against the pay hike, which was facing overwhelming opposition from the public. Mayor Nick Smith declined to comment on Coletti’s initiative.

Luke Colletti’s Initiative To Allow Voters Decision To Increase Council Pay

P.G. Looking (finally) Into Laws Regarding Electric Bicycles

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I remember getting hollered at by the tam o’shanter wearing cyclist when my children and I were an inch from the pavement as he sped by.

Easiest way to enforce safety would be to ticket any bike rider riding on the sidewalk. And as long as we are at it, make helmets mandatory for all riders regardless of age, on any two wheeled vehicle motorized or not.

Bike path speed

During the council meeting Wednesday, the council discussed existing city code and how it applies to e-bikes, bicycles and other devices on the coastal recreational trail, in parks and in other public spaces. The discussion focused on enforcement challenges, safety concerns and whether current regulations reflect current usage.

Currently, e-bikes are now allowed in Perkins’ Park, Lovers Point Park, Pacific Grove Golf Links, El Carmelo Cemetery, and the property ocean-side of Ocean View Boulevard to 17th Street. The exception is on the paved portion of the recreational trail.

P.G. Looking (finally) Into Laws Regarding Electric Bicycles

Drones Banned In P.G.

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Councilman Poduri wanted the long awaited ATC Hotel property exempt. Maybe this disguise can skirt the law:

The vote did not come without some bargaining after Councilmember Chaps Poduri demanded the future American Tin Cannery luxury hotel project be specifically excluded from the ordinance.

Poduri told the council that he did not want any more potential conditions placed on the project, located on the Pacific Grove/Monterey border, just around the corner from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and not far from the harbor seal pupping beach near Hopkins Marine Station.

He held his ground, refusing to vote for the ordinance as is, and although the other councilmembers argued that it concerned recreational drones only, not commercial, Poduri refused to budge.

Drones Banned In P.G.

P.G. Bike Safety To Be Enforced

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First, we need some cops to fill the vacancies.

PG911 Bike Patrol

“E-bike concerns and safety have been a priority of our Police Department for some time now, especially concerning our youth,” said Mogensen in a separate email.

A Public Records Act request with the city found that in the three-year span from Jan. 1, 2023, to Dec. 31, 2025, police issued zero citations for the municipal codes related to e-bike regulations. KSBW reached out to the police department for comment, but a representative from the department said they would not comment ahead of the city council meeting.

A review of the 2024 Annual Report produced by the police department, the most recent one available at the time of publication, showed that the police department had four vacancies, or 17%, for sworn staff. The report said one goal for the following years was to increase bicycle patrols.

P.G. Bike Safety To Be Enforced

Another P.G. School Worker Arrested For Sexual Assault On Student

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Has there been some kind of trend with perverted P.G. teachers and non teacher workers? Whoever is doing the hiring at P.G.U.S.D. aint doing a very good job.

Marquis Pickrom

Marquis Pickrom

Marquis Pickrom, a former girls’ basketball coach at Pacific Grove High School and campus supervisor, was arrested by Pacific Grove police over the weekend and booked into the Monterey County Jail on Sunday for sexual assault of a minor under 18 and annoying or molesting a child.

The victim is a student at Pacific Grove High School.

Between August 2023 and October 2025, the victim, who was 16 to 18 years old at the time, reported being groomed by Pickrom, saying he “gave her special attention” and “made personal and romantic comments.”

In July 2025, the police say he kissed the victim and sexually touched her.

Another P.G. School Worker Arrested For Sexual Assault On Student