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Landlord Has Hammer Hassle, Gets Hauled To Hoosegow

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The Pine Cone is now publishing P.G. Police logs – check it out

A 75-year-old male on Presidio Boulevard was arrested for striking another person in the head with a hammer. Landlord was upset that the tenant below was using the hammer. He entered the tenant’s room, told him to stop, grabbed tenant and took hammer from him. Tenant’s friend tried to intervene. Landlord then struck tenant’s friend in the face and on his back with hammer, causing multiple injuries. Medical refused by all parties. Landlord arrested for ADW. Held on bail and transported to county jail.

Landlord Has Hammer Hassle, Gets Hauled To Hoosegow

There Goes The Budget Surplus – Rebuild Broken Brokaw Hall?

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Tear it down – not worth the money to preserve, especially if the habitat is meant to be a home for butterflies.

Brokaw Hall

In an attempt to atone for the sins of the past, the Pacific Grove City Council signaled Wednesday that historic Brokaw Hall might escape demolition.

The dilapidated city-owned building at 263 Grove Acre Ave. was scheduled to be torn down by June 6 after the city’s chief building official, John Kuehl, declared it a health and safety hazard.

The council Wednesday was expected to authorize paying $36,000 for its destruction and to debate about what elements of the one-story wooden building, which was built in 1914 and is former home of the Del Monte Military Academy, would be worth salvaging.

There Goes The Budget Surplus – Rebuild Broken Brokaw Hall?

Golf Course Shed Fire Creates Scare

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This Week In Fire #1

What I wonder is “was it up to code?” hmmm.

A fire Wednesday in a storage building at Ocean View Boulevard and Asilomar Avenue forced a police evacuation of the nearby area, Monterey fire officials said.

The blaze broke out about 8 p.m. and heavy black smoke was coming from the storage structure. A poison placard was posted on the outside of the building.

Golf Course Shed Fire Creates Scare

Pacific Grove Police Officers Association Charges Investigated

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PG Cops On Break

A city ordinance approved in August — the Sustainable Retirement Benefit Reform Initiative — limits city contributions to police pensions.

The council took action after voters collected enough signatures to force the measure to curb pension benefits onto the November ballot.

The council did put a measure on the ballot that changed the city charter to allow the council or citizens to regulate employee benefits. The police union contends that too violated the city’s obligation to meet and confer with the association.

The complaint vindicates “our efforts to see that the city keeps its promises to its hardworking public safety employees,” said association president Sylvia Newton in a prepared statement.

Pacific Grove Police Officers Association Charges Investigated

Garcia Losing My Respect

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Protesting at Asilomar.
Asilomar Union Picket

Pacific Grove City Council member Ken Cuneo stood with the protestors on May 12 and held a sign, as did Mayor Carmelita Garcia. “I hope Aramark comes around,” Garcia said later. “It’s terrible to think people can exist for five years with no wage increase.”

Five years and no wage increase for the workers? If that’s what Local 483 negotiates for it’s members, see what wage increases the Local’s Secretary-Treasurer gets in five years- $15,652 from 2005 to 2009. The workers need to be protesting on the corner of Forest & Gibson, not at Asilomar.

483 Secretary Wages

The membership keeps dropping but the Union’s management gets raises. Who is left to pay those ever increasing union rep salaries?

 

Unite Here Dropping
Garcia Losing My Respect

No Venue Change For Pollacci’s Next Rape Trial

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Should I modify a “Parking for Ron’s Liquor Only” sign to say “Parking for Jury only”?

Judge Terrance Duncan said that despite extensive news coverage of Pollacci’s previous cases, prospective jurors will be screened to eliminate those who have been prejudiced by the publicity.

“There is no way he can get an unfair trial in Monterey County,” prosecutor Michael Breeden told the judge.

No Venue Change For Pollacci’s Next Rape Trial

Pollacci faces an additional eight years for each potential rape conviction. But if Breeden files an enhancement for sexual assault against multiple victims, Pollacci could face life in prison.

Mvsevm Fetus Who Are You?

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The Mvsevm

Should the fetus, which is just 3 inches long, be put on display at a small-town museum best known for its scores of stuffed birds and wildlife animals? Or should it be handed over to a university, larger museum or research institution?

The answer depends on whom you talk to.

“I think it should be researched and retained at the museum as part of Pacific Grove’s cultural patrimony,” said Esther Trosow, a former museum board member.

However, city manager Tom Frutchey believes the long-forgotten fetus shouldn’t be returned to the museum because the city hasn’t given it “the respect it deserves.”

Wait, do they still have the Indian burial display? Or does that also not reflect the Mvsevm’s non-natural-history path it is taking>

Mvsevm Fetus Who Are You?

Frutchey Feasts

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Frutchey Dines On Crow

Frutchey claimed former planning officials “repeatedly approved projects after only partial or faulty analysis and otherwise sidestepped local and state requirements.”

His message — which infuriated previous planners, a former P.G. mayor and others — also alleged “staff made decisions that either were not theirs to make or were not in conformance with the codes.”

Frutchey Feasts

Will Pollacci Get A Change Of Venue?

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No surprises there. Poll people coming out of Costco and asking them about “Pollacci Rape Cases”. Sad part about this is that Tommy has yet to get to the Big House.

In response to the survey question, “how would you describe Thomas Pollacci?” the convicted rapist was called “vicious, despicable, guilty,” “evil,” a “slime ball” and “scuzz bag” an “egotistical guy who has to rape to feel superior,” Geringer reported.

“When I talked to these people, they were vicious and very, very angry,” she said.

But Eugene Bregman — a political polling expert retained by prosecutor Michael Breeden — reviewed Geringer’s survey said he found it was fatally flawed and took issue with the questionnaire and her sampling techniques.

“The biggest problem in the survey is that it’s not vaguely representative of the jury pool that will be called,” said Bregman, who said he was being paid no more than $4,000, also from taxpayers, for his work.

Will Pollacci Get A Change Of Venue?

Wharf Leases Deemed Legal

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Wharf Signs

Willard tried to break the leases, which probably would have put people out of business, leading to Cannery Row style schlock taking over the wharf..

The council concluded the current leases “clearly state that the buildings are the property and responsibility of the lease holders.” The council said ownership “was properly negotiated as a part of the lease extensions in the early ’90s and was not a gift of public funds.”

Assistant City Manager Fred Cohn said the wharf businesses have ground leases from the city under which they essentially “rent the mud” beneath the wharf. The tenants are responsible for the pilings, decking and buildings, he said.

Wharf Leases Deemed Legal