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Mysterious Beings Vandalize Golf Course

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“It’s generally a cart or a truck doing donuts. This is pretty weird because it’s obviously not a vehicle,” police Cmdr. Tom Uretzky said. “It’s just a bunch of holes.”

Golf course Superintendent Mike Leach called it the worst vandalism he’s seen.

“Someone has physically just beaten the heck out of a $30,000 green,” he said. “It was as if someone took a roto-tiller to (it).”

Pacific Grove’s golf course and several others, including the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, were also the target of pranksters six weeks ago, but those capers weren’t nearly as damaging as Monday night’s big dig, Leach said.

Just a bunch of holes? Three words, Punk Mutant Gophers

Punk Gophers

Mysterious Beings Vandalize Golf Course

AOPs Sue Over Occupancy Permits at Forest Hill Manor

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An attorney with Forest Hill Manor said she is preparing to sue the City of Pacific Grove over its refusal to issue a permit that would allow senior residents to move into newly constructed cottages.

The litigation would raise the stakes in Forest Hill’s ongoing battle with the city, which won’t issue an occupancy permit for the cottages at Fountain and Gibson until another project at Forest Hill, which includes new apartments, is completed.

“Construction of the entire project, and compliance with the use permit and all conditions of approval must be completed before the project can be deemed final and occupancy granted,” wrote assistant city attorney Heidi Quinn in an April 30 letter to Forest Hill’s attorney.

Allowing the cottages to be occupied before the rest of the project is finished would violate terms of the city’s use permit, Quinn contends.

Forest Hill Manor

Well, if they read the fine print as detailed as they write the claims for damages, the problem is obvious. Or is there some big love-in over at apartment B11?

We got 6 people here suing to live in apartment B11. (pointed out by Scott Miller)

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Forest Hill Manor 2e

Claim 2F

Forest Hill Manor 2f

Claim 2G

Forest Hill Manor 2g

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Forest Hill Manor 2h

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Forest Hill Manor 2i

Claim 2J

Forest Hill Manor 2j

They have 2 homes and cannot move into one, and it is causing mental stress. Oh how my heart bleeds (NOT).

AOPs Sue Over Occupancy Permits at Forest Hill Manor

Pet Chickens In P.G?

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I’m pro-chicken and I VOTE.

Put it to the test, I asked several candidates where they stood on chickens, after a teen’s pet chickens were suspiciously killed after an AOP (angry old person) protested the kid’s pets.

The Pacific Grove City Council is scheduled to decide at its 6 p.m. meeting today whether to allow a resident to keep two chickens in his yard.

Retired biologist John Pearse of 183 Ocean View Blvd. would like to have the chickens for their eggs and their ability to produce fertilizer, recycle kitchen scraps and eliminate insects from his garden, he wrote in a letter to the city.

Update – The chickens were approved.

Pet Chickens In P.G?

Fire Department Merger Being Considered

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Three cities on the Monterey Peninsula are one step closer to a merger that could save them a collective $1.3 million a year.

The cities of Pacific Grove, Carmel and Monterey are all considering consolidating their fire departments into one.

The cities combined currently spend more than $3.5 million each year on firefighting. But if the three departments merged, the cost for fire protection would drop to around $2.2 million total, the company reviewing the plan said.

About time. Just put more resource at the worker level and eliminate some administration.

Fire Department Merger Being Considered

Farmers Market? With All These Empty Storefronts?

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Short Bus Route

Letter From The Editor in the Hear-Old:

Why would Pacific Grove want to have a farmers market when it has Grove Market?

In an easy walk around a few blocks, shoppers can find fresh produce, a butcher shop, farmer’s bread, clothing shops, antiques, art galleries, card shops, stationery, cleaners, paints, banks, health food and the best hardware store and post office on the Central Coast.

I bet Monterey residents would love to take a short bus ride with their shopping bags to shop in a town that provides the basic necessities for locals.

It’s obvious that Barbara bAss Evans rides the short bus. None of those businesses are open in the early evening when working people shop.

Farmers Market? With All These Empty Storefronts?

The Dilworth Phenomenon

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Dapper Dilworth

The San Francisco Chronicle printed side-by-side pictures this week of two prominent Monterey Peninsula residents.

On the right was Clint Eastwood, an international movie star, Oscar-winning director, conservationist, philanthropist, former Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, land owner, developer, partner in the Pebble Beach Co., and one of the driving forces behind that company’s plan to eliminate potential homesites in Del Monte Forest while building a new golf course and hotel rooms.

On the left was David Dilworth, a high school graduate whose personal accomplishments wouldn’t fill a postage stamp.

Last weekend, the Herald even bestowed an advanced education on Dilworth, calling him an “environmental biologist.” Never mind that he doesn’t actually have so much as a bachelor’s degree in any scientific field.

What Dilworth does have is a lot of opinions and a lot of free time on his hands.

Attention Whore.

The Dilworth Phenomenon

P.G. Making Plans For A Farmers Market

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Before the City Council proceeds, a June 21 meeting will be held to hash out details, including the location and schedule for a market, said City Manager Jim Colangelo.

Colangelo said if merchants’ concerns can be resolved, a farmers market would be a positive note for downtown, where sales tax revenues have been flat in recent months.

“It’s not a crisis situation,” Colangelo said. “But we’re just concerned that we’re not seeing the type of business that we used to.”

You hit the nail on the head, Jimmy. Locals have quit shopping in downtown P.G. ever since the Carmel crowd moved in. Farmer’s Markets tend to be local centric. And none of the shops that oppose one are ever open when they take place anyway.

P.G. Making Plans For A Farmers Market

Fire Starts In Pebble Beach – 20 Years After The Big One

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A fire broke out at about 6 p.m. Sunday at the Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach. According to authorities, nearly an acre of vegetation burned near the 12th and 13th holes.

The sirens wailed, helicopters and airplanes flew low, something was happening. 20 years ago millions were lost in a poorly fought blaze in Pebble Beach, this one did not repeat it.

See the neat Slide Show and interviews about the 1987 fire on The Hear-old’s Web Site

Fire Starts In Pebble Beach – 20 Years After The Big One

The Last Naked Intersection Succumbs

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A new stoplight is planned for New Monterey, aimed at improving safety for pedestrian and bicycle crossings at Lighthouse and avenues. Construction of the traffic signal is expected to begin today.

Lighthosue Ave At Mcclellan

There you have it. Now, every intersection on Lighthouse Avenue in New Monterey has a stoplight. What next? How about a signal at Giannis Pizza, Longs Drugs, the surf shop, and when that’s done move toward the same on Foam street and then Hawthorne.

Here is it.
McClellan Stoplight

The Last Naked Intersection Succumbs

Cannery Row Block Party

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Thousands of tourists and locals packed Monterey streets at the 4th annual Cannery Row Block Party on Sunday.

Wave and Foam streets were jammed with families and performers as local traffic slowed to a crawl.

The crowds gobbled seafood cocktails, taste-tested ice cream sundaes and listened to a musical tribute to Carlos Santana by the group Zebop.

The free event was populated by a circus like assortment of stilt walkers, clowns and wild animals — including a turtle, a hyena and a 110-pound mandrill who yawned on demand.

Umm, yeah. That’s some real Cannery Row worthy attractions. Sure.

Cannery Row Block Party