“Fall always brings on an increase in ‘coon activity,'” said Pacific Grove animal control officer Elizabeth Yeo, “due to the nature of the animal.”
officials said the trick to keeping raccoons at bay is to make backyards and businesses uninviting: Secure garbage can lids, pick up fallen fruit, avoid leaving pet food and water bowls outside at night, and close off crawl spaces under houses and decks.
Yep. Secure your garbage. This website says it all the time . .
Lighthouse Cafe
The patch of trail at the bottom of Forest Avenue is completed. Nice fake rocks support the repaired section.
There’s a board at the bottom of the post & rail fence to keep small critters from sliding under. Also note the removal of the defined walking path. The decomposed granite is gone.
Hear-old says nothing about why she was in the water. Diver? Swimmer? Fell in? Check back for updates.
The divers who were bringing her in were making good progress, doing a great job,” Perkins said. “When we got her up on the beach, she was breathless and pulse-less, so we initiated CPR.”
Perkins said the fire department received “great assistance” from bystanders, including a registered nurse who was on the beach, off-duty firefighters, a state park lifeguard, the Coast Guard and the Monterey Police Department.
San Carlos Beach
25 to life should about do it.
After reviewing results of a third psychological evaluation of Deborah King, 51, a judge ruled Friday that she is competent to stand trial on charges of murder and vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in the death of Joel Woods.
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49 to 7?
Carmel and Pacific Grove high schools used to have a ceremonial bonfire before their football teams squared off in the county’s most storied rivalry.
That was until 1952, when Charlie Higuera and some of his fellow Pacific Grove seniors sneaked over to Carmel to light their rivals’ pile of wood — the night before the bonfire was set to happen.
The antic got Higuera into a heap of trouble, but he can laugh about it now.
“And that was the last time they had a bonfire,” he said Thursday at his Pacific Grove grocery store, Grove Market.
While it extinguished a pregame tradition, the prank helped fuel a rivalry that is still going strong more than a half century later.
Unused water allocations for businesses in Pacific Grove may be handed over to homeowners on the city’s water waiting list.
The City Council on Wednesday voted 6-1 to approve a resolution allocating unused water credits and introduced a draft ordinance that would allow payment for unused public water credits held by the city.
Pacific Grove has a waiting list of applicants seeking permits to build new homes or businesses or to add bathrooms or other water-using facilities.
Property owners were notified by letter of the city’s intent to assign the credits. In one case, Tibor Rudas — who owns a commercial building at 610 Lighthouse Ave. and holds a 2.5 acre-foot allocation issued in 1996 for development of a 125-seat restaurant — was told to submit a building permit application and complete it in 60 days, and to assign an unused 1.57 acre-feet of water to the waiting list.
Now all you need is some $$ to build those bathrooms and businesses. Businesses? How much water does an art gallery use anyway?
Free poetry from the Internet:
There once was a man from Dundee,
Who molested an ape in a tree,
The result was most horrid,
All arse and no forehead,
Three balls and a purple goatee!
Denis Edward Wagner pleaded not guilty to two counts of possessing child porn. Prosecutor Gary Thelander asked Judge Russell Scott to increase Wagner’s bail from $10,000 to $100,000, arguing Wagner was a danger to the community because he might “act upon his impulses.”
Wagner is among the writers who have contributed their works to “The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets.” In October, he participated in “The Big Read: The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers.”
No official word yet on Mayor’s race, but can be assumed to be Dan Cort.
Losin’ Susan maintains her record of well, losing. Same with David “no credibility” Dilworth.
CITY COUNCIL
William R. Kampe 3,205 20.69%
Carmelita Garcia 2,160 13.95%
Deborah C. Lindsay 1,942 12.54%
Daniel Miller 1,772 11.44%
Ken Eduardo Cuneo 1,767 11.41%
Susan Goldbeck 1,611 10.40%
David Dilworth 1,544 9.97%
Richard A. Ahart, Jr. 1,486 9.60%MEASURE X
Vote Count Percent
YES 5,778 75.83%
NO 1,842 24.17%MEASURE Y
Vote Count Percent
YES 3,227 56.32%
NO 2,503 43.68%
(KTVU TV News)
State officials say they’ve found no conclusive link between the hundreds of illnesses reported by Central Coast residents and the pesticide sprayed on their communities last year to combat a crop-eating moth.
Residents of Santa Cruz and Monterey counties complained of feeling sick after agricultural authorities sprayed residential areas last fall to combat the invasive light brown apple moth.
Score one for the lions. Writer never saw one.
Last month, a Pacific Grove police officer on patrol spotted a lion just after midnight on Sunset Avenue near Congress Avenue, said Animal Control Officer Elizabeth Yeo of the city’s police department.
The animal was crossing Sunset, “stopped and looked and took off,” she said.
Hence my stakeout. It was part of my research to find out if the reports meant more mountain lions were wandering onto the Peninsula. Might the sight of the stealthy carnivores that are at the top of their food chain become more routine near our urban homes?