Category Archives: Carmel Pine Cone

Beaches Closed. Moose Out Front Should Have Told Ya

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Are we sure the Fresno crowd will stay off the sand?

With continuing heat in the Central Valley, people’s options for recreation severely hampered by coronavirus-induced restrictions, and daily crowds at the beaches despite
rules limiting their use, public officials decided the safest way to handle the next big holiday is to shut them down. For Independence Day, the City of Carmel completely
closed its beach, while some other Peninsula cities restricted their use to water-based activities, not allowing anyone to be on the sand.

Beaches Closed. Moose Out Front Should Have Told Ya

Jealousy Not Jalousie In Patisserie Bechler Shooting

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Was the crust of the situation.

Bechler

At about 4:40 a.m., Jennifer Razo, 39, shot the unidentified woman in the rear parking lot of Patisserie Bechler at 1225 Forest Avenue. Scores of police officers from Pacific Grove Police Department and numerous other law enforcement agencies rushed to the scene. Officers assisted the victim, and medical crews took her to a hospital. But Razo wouldn’t give up, and “she put a gun toward her head and threatened to shoot herself,”

She broke a window to the office of the bakery and tried to get inside, where the victim and Razo’s estranged husband — who also works at the bakery — were trying to shield themselves.

Jealousy Not Jalousie In Patisserie Bechler Shooting

Knights Keep The Cave

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Lease goes to longtime Pacific Grove business while newcomers named after a location 50 miles away object.Adventures by Sea at FOL

The Pacific Grove City Council last week OK’d a lease with the owners of a popular beachfront business that rents bicycles, kayaks, wetsuits and other recreational equipment out of what’s dubbed “The Cave” at Lovers Point Beach. Council members voted 5-2 Aug. 5 to approve a new lease with Frank and Michelle Knight, who have sold sundries and rented recreation equipment from the city-owned building on Ocean View

Joaquin Sullivan, owner of Big Sur Adventures, which owns a company in the American Tin Cannery that rents out e-bikes, claimed his less than 3-year-old company could “significantly increase revenue” for the city.

Mayor Bill Peake and councilwoman Jenny McAdams voted against the 5-year lease, which ends July 31, 2025.

Knights Keep The Cave

Rude Race Ranter Arrested

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Pacific Grove police responded in force Wednesday afternoon to pull over and arrest at gunpoint an Avila Beach man they say made threats, yelled racial slurs and hurled things at other motorists, including an aluminum baseball bat and a beer can.
Officers responded to a noon call about a driver on the 300 block of Lighthouse Avenue who was waving a bat and yelling slurs. Police then received a second call that the man was yelling and had thrown a bat at a driver on the 300 block of Junipero Avenue.

Officers spotted the vehicle on Lighthouse Avenue near 19th and conducted a “high risk traffic stop” of the driver, later identified as John Charles Ensor, 48, from Avila Beach.

Witnesses, police said, positively identified Ensor, who was taken to Monterey County Jail on suspicion of driving under the influence with a prior DUI, open container of alcohol, exhibiting a deadly weapon, felony hate crime, and committing a felony while on bail, which the jail said carries $30,000 bail. A dog in his van was taken by the Pacific Grove animal control officer. Police administrative services manager Jocelyn Francis said Ensor was on bail for evading arrest.

Rude Race Ranter Arrested

Carmel Based Fresno Charity Must Pay Back Millions

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Plus legal fees to the Pine Cone

Fresno Connection

County Superior Court in August 2018, ajury determined that the attorney general’s claims against Matthew G. Gregory, and his son, Matthew J. Gregory, were true, and that they had used misleading and deceptive fundraising practices in running unlawful charity raffles in California. Jurors also found that the elder Gregory’s wife, Danella, and daughter, Gina, had unjustly enriched themselves in the scheme.
The family used a Carmel post office box to raise money through its charities to establish a therapeutic horse riding program for veterans in Carmel Valley. But Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who called the family “con artists” in a 2018 news release, said the charities were fake, and the jury found they failed to use the money to help veterans. Instead, prosecutors said, family members spent the donations on dining, traveling, paying off credit card debt, and shopping, including at Victoria’s Secret.

Carmel Based Fresno Charity Must Pay Back Millions

City Tries To Sneak One By The Trailer Park

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But them mobile home owners aint no dummies.

Residents who live in Pacific Grove’s only mobile home park have filed suit against the city over a zoning dispute that they fear would make a strip of land that goes down the middle of their nearly 11-acre private property a park that might eventually be opened to the public. A 25-page complaint filed April 17 by residents of the Monarch Pines Mobile Home Park challenges a finding by the city that a roughly 50-foot-wide undefined strip in the mobile home park — which used to be a railroad right of way — is actually zoned open space, not residential like the rest of the park.
The city maintains the error was discovered on a zoning map and that it should be “corrected.” However, residents of the park at 700 Briggs Ave. argue that no portion of their property has ever been designated as open space, and that a city map outlining open space zones “clearly shows” that.

City Tries To Sneak One By The Trailer Park

Reds Station Gives Way For $3,000.000 Condos

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Condos that end up as second homes, not really adding to the home town,

“We’re going to start the demolition next week.” Silverie’s plans call for creating 10,000 square feet of retail space on the first floor, including two or three restaurants. He said the restaurants are possible because he acquired four water credits from Pacific Grove Municipal Golf Links. The second two floors will each have five luxury condominiums ranging from 2,100 to 2,400 square-feet. The builder said one has already been sold for $3.5 million, and the others will be listed in “the mid-to-high $2 million range.” While Silverie plans to sell all 10 condos, his company will manage the retail space.

Reds Station Replacement

Reds Station Gives Way For $3,000.000 Condos

Holly’s Cafe Closed For Good

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Sorry, the only picture I have is their messy trash cans from back when business was better. For them and the sea gulls.Dumpster Hollys cafe 071216

“We are closing due to the pandemic,” Amy Hanmer wrote.
“I don’t blame our city or state government. Necessary actions were taken to protect the public, and unfortunately they were too costly for us to remain open.”

Hanmer, who continued selling pies after the restaurant closed in March, said she plans to keep doing so.

Holly’s Cafe Closed For Good

Ben Harvey Says Close The Streets Off

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Parklett Parking

So we can eat our $22 noodles out in the street with the seagulls.

“So far, we have identified two businesses that are in favor of the street closure out of 33 businesses in the two blocks,” Ammar said in a letter urging the council to not OK City Manager Ben Harvey’s plan and keep all of Lighthouse open to vehicles Besides being unpopular, Ammar said Harvey’s plan lacked transparency and would eliminate 48 parking spaces. The Monday farmer’s market shuts down Central Avenue, which means drivers trying to get through the area would have to be rerouted to Laurel or Pine avenues.

Ben Harvey Says Close The Streets Off