Nevermind the humans, close the beach for sea lions.
At a March 5 P.G. City Council meeting, numerous volunteers who help protect the seals urged the city to install bigger fencing to protect them. But before they even spoke, city
manager Tom Frutchey told the council that the city “will go ahead, and even without coastal commission approval, erect a more substantial barrier.” The city installed the lattice fencing not long after the meeting.
At least he did not call his lost cell phone in hopes of getting it back like Sean Conners
A Pacific Grove man stabbed by a homeowner who interrupted him during a burglary will be sentenced to 34 years and eight months in prison, prosecutors said Monday.
Raymond Gutosky, 57, pleaded guilty on Friday to burglary charges after having two previous burglary convictions in Los Angeles, officials said.
Around 9 a.m. on July 11, 2013, Gutosky entered a home after he watched the homeowner and his wife drive away.
The owner returned about 10 minutes later and found Gutosky stealing his wife’s jewelry. Armed with a knife, the owner ordered Gutosky to stay until police arrived.
But Gutosky fought back and was “pummeling” his victim, prosecutors said, until the owner stabbed Gutosky, severely wounding him.
Gutosky stumbled outside, got into a car and drove away, leaving behind his cell phone, which he likely lost during the struggle, officials said.
Hope they can expand their dumpster capacity to match.
The council, at its Wednesday meeting, rejected an appeal filed against the Sea Breeze Lodge expansion after it had been approved on a divided Planning Commission vote in March.
Appellants Roxanne and Adiba Mahroom contended the proposed addition of six units, on top of three approved in 2002 but never built, should have been reviewed under the state Environmental Quality Act. They also argued the city wrongfully approved water for the project before it was considered by the Planning Commission.
City planners said the addition to the 30-unit Lighthouse Avenue motel was a minor project exempt from the Environmental Quality Act.
If you see a book that does not look just right, report it immediately.
The Monterey County Bomb Squad responded to a house in New Monterey Thursday night on reports of a suspicious envelope being delivered to the residence.
Law enforcement was notified around 7 p.m. and responded to the home on Parcel Street off Prescott Avenue. The bomb squad arrived on scene by 8 p.m., and used a portable X-ray machine and robot to examine the package.
Just before 9:20 p.m., the bomb squad confirmed the envelope contained nothing dangerous. In fact, the envelope contained two children’s books.
The animals will get first rate care, what about the people living in the house?
A small historic home in Pacific Grove was declared uninhabitable Wednesday after authorities found it crammed with dogs and cats in “shocking” conditions, the SPCA for Monterey County said.
The house was cluttered with piles of clothing, trash and garage, along with feces and urine, the SPCA said.
There were 18 dogs, including four small puppies, locked in three small back rooms. The stench of ammonia from urine was so strong that fire officials recommended that animal rescuers use protective gear.
Two cats were also taken from the home in the 400 block of Fountain Avenue.
What happened to the gull poop cleanup program, with all kinds of hoopla about pressure washing and making the downtown tidy?
Monterey Hear-Old, August 2, 2013:
The city recently got state approval for a dry-season “best management practices” plan for sidewalk and curb washing of bird droppings in certain downtown areas, said Hardgrave. This is to comply with local and state regulations to keep contaminants out of Monterey Bay. Those lengthy guidelines are available from the city.
May 3, 2014
I think the gulls are doing this on purpose. Look up –
Visitors to downtown Pacific Grove please enjoy your visit, spend some money and for heaven’s sake, don’t touch anything outside.
Only Sam the Sham Farr can call up people and tell them to send money..
Two women were almost victims of a phone scam on Thursday, according to the Pacific Grove Police Department.
Both women received calls from a man who identified himself as a law enforcement official and said they had warrants for their arrests for not appearing on a jury summons. He had their names, addresses and phone numbers.
The public is reminded to never provide personal information over the phone or Internet to an unverified person. If you receive notification of a matter involving the transfer or payment of funds, always verify the validity of the message by using contact information you know to be accurate, not phone numbers or email addresses provided by the party.
If in doubt, the public is asked to contact law enforcement before taking any action.
How soon before the butts left on the street will be traced back to the careless fools that drop them?
The smoke break by the burglar came back to haunt a Pacific Grove man this week. He was convicted in Monterey County Superior Court of first-degree burglary and now faces a possible seven-year prison sentence.
“Smoking — it’s kind of bad for your health,” said Deputy District Attorney Sam Nong on Thursday.
Nong prosecuted Daniel Edward Jeske, 33, of Pacific Grove from the March 20, 2012, break-in.
He said police forwarded the cigarette butt to the state DNA database — which includes about 1 million samples collected from felons and persons arrested on a felony charge.
Cigarettes Can Be Hazardous To Your Freedom
4 people rob a person at their house and steal their car. Not sure of the circumstances.
Police arrested two suspects and were still searching for a third in connection with a an incident Friday that began with an armed robbery in Monterey and included a four-hour standoff in Salinas.
Police were summoned at 4 p.m. to an address in New Monterey, where a homeowner had been robbed at gunpoint. The suspects fled with the victim’s van, police said.
The stolen vehicle was spotted a short time later in Marina, where a female driver was arrested.
A second suspect was located and arrested outside a house on Lupine Drive, and police surrounded the residence, believing the third suspect was inside.
A four-hour standoff ended when SWAT teams from Monterey and Salinas rammed through the front door and tear-gassed the home. They did not find the suspect.
About time, eh? Refer to the 2009 article What If Digital Research Had Won IBM’s Love? and another from 2007: Tech Tour Of Pacific Grove.
Gary Kildall, the pioneer digital visionary whose development of the microcomputer operating system in 1974 led to the personal computer, was honored Friday in Pacific Grove, the town where he had lived and worked.
Kildall, who died in 1994, was called “Father of the interconnected universe” at the commemorative event, held at Pacific Grove City Hall
Good credit where credit is due, but one is left hanging to know what happend to Digital Research. Trip over to The Six Serendipities of Microsoft and read about how close DR came to being the DOS that shipped with every new IBM PC and becoming big as or bigger than Microsoft.
The IBM design team knew immediately which operating system it wanted …They wanted CP/M, a product of .. Digital Research, of Pacific Grove, California. But when IBM first approached Digital Research, the company’s founder Gary Kildall was out of the office for the day. In his absence, Kildall’s wife and business associates were reluctant to sign the stringent IBM nondisclosure agreement…
If Dead Rock Stars Get Plaques So Should Dead Computer Pioneers