Like any fries with that?
An employee was arrested Saturday on suspicion of stealing $1,800 from a McDonald’s restaurant in Pacific Grove business, police said.
Police said Veronica Antoinette Smith, 28, was taken into custody after police observed her driving in the city of Seaside.
I’ve wondered what the story was. Stop and listen while on your walk.
At 54, Urso has dreams and aspirations of making a CD one day, and maybe hitting it big, but doesn’t know how to get that done.
So he plays for tourists and locals who pass him on the recreation trail, a few hundred yards south of the Monterey Bay Aquarium. They reward him with coins and dollar bills.
“I had a pretty good day yesterday. The Row was packed with people walking around for the holidays and I wound up making about $30,” says Urso, who wears dirty jeans with softball-sized holes in the knees, a dark blue parka and an olive green cap. His silver hair is long and his beard could use a trim.
A pair of unknown subjects were spotted in the act of vandalizing newspaper boxes. The suspects are believed to be in their forties. They wore dark clothing and were shaggy in appearance. The men were not apprehended. Later, an informant called in to say that several racks had been broken into in the area of 13th Street and Congress Avenue. Considerable damage was done to the boxes in both locations. An estimated $50 to $200 was missing from each box.
Try to be more like Carmel, P.G. gets the same crime as Carmel.
12/15/08
Thief working the Works: To the sticky fingered individual who lifted a gorgeous painting from the walls of the Works art gallery in Pacific Grove, I offer my most sincere feelings of pity, as you are obviously a pathetic person. As much as this world needs compassion right now, I really can’t feel anything for you but objective anger. Shame on you, you thief and loser.
Misty Dawn
Give it back: I join Misty Dawn, who wrote to report the theft of a painting from The Works gallery, in saying, “Shame on you” to the thief.
The Pacific Grove Art Center was also struck by a sneak thief who stole an exquisite needlepoint tote bag from a display by one of the studio artists. The incident was a personal violation against the artist.
In addition to the expense of materials, hundreds of hours of work were involved in creating this beautiful piece, which was displayed for the enjoyment of others. How could anyone possibly enjoy something that was stolen from the artist, on display at a nonprofit center, right before Christmas? This petty criminal deserves a lump of coal in his or her stocking.
Joan Jeffers McCleary
A soldier at the Presidio of Monterey got a taste of that attitude on Veterans Day in Pacific Grove this year. As he and his wife were leaving a business establishment, they were told, “We don’t serve your kind around here.”
Army Sgt. Derek Williams, who is studying Spanish at the Defense Language Institute, is just back from a combat tour in Iraq with the 504th Military Intelligence Battalion.
It’s the Ice Cream Shoppe on Lighthouse. The place is a shrine to the anti-Bush types.
They knocked the flames down quickly enough to prevent their spreading to the downstairs unit or the detached apartment to the rear, according to Gunter. No one was injured, and the occupant’s four cats also escaped unharmed.
Although they were innocent bystanders, the cats are indirectly responsible. The resident had built a plywood contraption to hold catnapping baskets in the sun room, and a piece of the wood was quite close to the electric wall heater, according to Gunter, who investigated the cause and origin of the blaze.
The date for the second trial of a Monterey businessman accused of molesting a 14-year-old boy, showing him child pornography, and tampering with a witness, was rescheduled Wednesday to Feb. 2 —five weeks later than the original date — to allow the prosecution, the defense, and Superior Court Judge Terrance Duncan additional time to prepare.
the Clement hotel built a walkway that gives pedestrians free access to the ocean side of the hotel and the rear of the Pacific Biological Laboratory, “Doc’s Lab,” where Ed Ricketts plied his trade as a collector of specimens for marine biological research.
Eventually, he said, similar walkways may give the public walking access to the entire Cannery Row shore front.
“It’s not just about Steinbeck anymore,” said Bonnie Adams, executive director of the Cannery Row Business Association.
Besides Steinbeck’s own lore, the walking tour gives glimpses into the role of women in the canneries, the great Associated Oil fire of 1924, Cannery Row in the movies and in literature.
Anybody want to tell the world where this great family restaurant was in Pacific Grove?
A P.G. resident was among the victims.
Officers made their first arrest Nov. 4, tracking 39-year-old Edith Gaskins down at her Seaside home, where she was hiding in the closet.
When they interviewed 33-year-old Leticia Balajadia, also of Seaside, “she tried to point a finger at all the others, but it turned out she was very involved in the operation,” Uretsky said, and she was arrested Nov. 17.
The other two, 33-year-old Warkiesha Pettis-Gulley and 40-year-old Brian Anderson, a husband and wife who live in Marina, were arrested early this month after fleeing Washington Mutual Bank.
They had entered the Seaside WaMu earlier in day but left, and a bank official issued an alert to other branches in the area, according to Carmel detective Jesse Juarez. In Carmel, Pettis-Gulley walked up to the counter with a forged check to deposit, but the teller recognized her and called police.