Monterey police said Kyle Signorella, 34, had $900 worth of counterfeit $10 and $20 bills in his car when he was pulled over in Pacific Grove.
The quality of the bills was very poor, printed on a home inkjet printer, police said.
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Downtown Farm Reborn?
This is the Green Spot, a collaboration between Applied Solar and two local environmental groups. Only a few months old, the quirky little property is evolving into a vortex for all things local and green.
Three groups will unveil the Green Spot at the Good Old Days celebration. Fifteen booths, displays and demos will show locals how to shrink their eco-footprints by planting trees, building compost bins, installing solar-energy systems, setting up cisterns, cleaning green, curbing trash and auditing home energy use.
Can I get a tax cut for this? How much more would Jose the gardener charge to compost my lawn trimmings? Is cabbage resistant to deer and raccoon poo? Do you really think the weekender homeowners are really going to buy this? Judging by the mountains of trash the businesses create, it shows that they wont. Who’s left to join the compost club, the dozen or so frequent attendees to the city council meetings?
No Link Between Light Brown Apple Moth Spraying and Reported Illnesses
And Sam “the sham’ Farr has showed some rare gonads and came out against the spraying. Weird, I’ve always thought Farr was in the AgBiz’s back pocket.
Doctors and scientists from the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, the California Department of Public Health and the state Department of Pesticide Regulation examined the illness complaints that followed aerial spraying of a pheromone product in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties last year and described their findings in today’s report.
As the LBAM program continues, the state will monitor the safety of any future spraying.
No Link Between Light Brown Apple Moth Spraying and Reported Illnesses
Mayor Cort Wants To Transform Lighthouse Avenue Into A No Car Zone
If the gas prices keeping tourists away don’t kill downtown this will. If I need to leave the car down or up the hill to go to the bank or hardware store, forget it. I’ll just keep driving all the way to Sand City.
Cort floated an idea that came out of the city’s Economic Advisory Committee. Pacific Grove could close several blocks of Lighthouse Avenue to cars, he said, creating the first “pedestrianized” downtown on the Peninsula.
Murmurs grew until the room was buzzing like a poked beehive. The noise drowned out the mayor’s subsequent comments on water storage and solar roofs.
But City Councilman Alan Cohen, who also sits on the committee and owns Lighthouse Business Center, is skeptical. He worries that commercial rents on Lighthouse – which are already at a premium – could be affected. And he doesn’t like the notion of customers walking several blocks to go shopping, then schlepping their packages back to their cars. “It would close off traffic on a street that brings a lot of people to town,” he says.
Rough estimate of the planned no car zones:
Mayor Cort Wants To Transform Lighthouse Avenue Into A No Car Zone
Mayor’s Agenda – Redevelop Apartments Into Weekender Condos
Every politician seems to have an agenda that is not revealed when campaigning. Better name is 7 Morons.
It’s called Oceans 7 and gives an impressive presentation from the sidewalk through its broad, open-ended, open-to-the-sky walkway separating the two parts of the two-story building (one side numbered 2-6, the other, 1-7) that are united by patterns made by the mid-century-modern stairway railings. Their clean lines criss-cross as they curve around the landings, recalling the optical rhythms of 1950s functional sculpture. A subdued little square of a garden atop a platform on the far side of the courtyard has a small, glazed spherical fountain with water lazily covering its whole shape.
American Tin Cannery Being Developed? With Housing?
No April Foolin. I’ve thought this would be a much better hotel/convention site than the Holman’s Building.
Representatives for the owner,(. . .) Cannery Row Co. envision a model development that would incorporate “green” energy-saving building technology and turn the former factory building into a complex containing condominiums, moderately priced apartments, a hotel “that could compete with Pebble Beach and Carmel,” shops and service businesses.
Pacific Grove Mayor Dan Cort and City Manager Jim Colangelo agree that the property is underused.
Colangelo said city officials have had talks with Cannery Row Co. representatives during the past several years “trying to figure out a way the city and Cannery Row Co. can generate more revenue” from the site.
Sustainable To Landfills, Continued
Pacific Grove Inn, 581 Pine Avenue. Trashcans overflowing into the street. Catty-corner from the Ecofreaks exhibit location.
“Magic Carpet” Beginning To Bloom
Postcard favorite landscaping along the shore is popping up pink.
Postcard from the 60s
Mesembryanthemum it’s called. Up close today:
Should be in raging brightness for a few weeks. Cost nothing to see.
Does Substainable Mean Bailing Out Failed Businesses, Too?
A “sustainable” Pacific Grove isn’t just about the environment; it’s economics too, City Councilwoman Vicki Stilwell told her colleagues at Wednesday’s council meeting.
In her case, the economics of the city didn’t sustain her and her husband’s business, the Woodenickel gift shop at 529 Central Ave., which is holding its final closeout sale today.
“We’ve had a wonderful five years,” Stilwell said, “but I don’t know if it’s the recession, the price of gas, the mortgage crisis.”
Business just hasn’t been good enough.
Sorry to sound mean, but first you need to have something to sell that people want. Fewer tourists and fewer people decorating their weekender homes equals less need for phony country charm.
If you are going to pimp the town to tourists, you’ll have to cave and give them something that they will be drawn to P.G for. One suggestion is to get Trader Joe’s to move to the main floor of the Holman building. But that would decimate the all-blessed Grove Market, none of our best bribed politicos would approve it.
Think . . something unique yet familiar to all . .
Rubber Checks, Too Shall Pass
Kenneth Ray Murray, pastor of the Pacific Grove Community Baptist Church, has been charged with forgery and writing checks on non-sufficient funds.
A man who would only identify himself as a deacon at the Community Baptist Church said, “We as a church are supporting our pastor and this too shall pass”.