Category Archives: Carmel Pine Cone

Family Tradition

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Needed money for pimple cream.

Jeffery Rutt

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Jeffery Rutt – the Pacific Grove resident arrested after leading deputies on a car chase two months ago when he was caught breaking into cars — has already pleaded guilty to multiple crimes and sentenced to three years in prison.

Although they live in the same P.G. home and share a last name, it’s unknown how Jeffrey Rutt is related to Jason Rutt, who was arrested for burglary in 2014 and drug offenses in 2012, when he was already on probation for an earlier offense. In the 2014 case, Jason Rutt, then 29, trashed a home on Sage Court while spending all day inside, making himself at home, rifling through the owner’s
possessions and stealing luggage and jewelry. “The house was basically ransacked, and food was eaten. He was probably there all day,” thenPGPD Cmdr. Cassie McSorley said at the time.

Family Tradition

Lighthouse Avenue Store Sued Over Disabled Access

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Kato Corner Store.

Alagheband’s shop is the first complaint Ho has filed in Monterey County, he’s a veteran at suing businesses for alleged ADA violations. At one point, Ho had about 300 lawsuits pending in Los Angeles County,  according to the Orange County Register. And the disabled man sued about 80 businesses in the San Jose area in 2012 after determining they had inadequate parking or access for the disabled, according to a February 2014 news story in the San Jose Mercury News.

Lighthouse Avenue Store Sued Over Disabled Access

Ever Have Neighbor Like This?

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I once had one that left angry notes on my car if I parked on the street in front of his house. He had one car and always parked in his driveway. He never spoke to me, just kept leaving notes and reporting my daily driven car as abandoned.
Pauls Note
One visit from his crabby ex wife and the war was on.

Hackett, who declined interview requests from The Pine Cone, has also complained about the size of the home’s natural gas lines, the placement of its electrical panel, and the custom wood garage doors the Travailles installed. He even Renovation turns into nightmare, thanks to picky complained that the house was a couple of inches bigger than the plans showed, the Travailles said.

Hackett’s problem with the project seemed to be at an end when he sent a “Happy New Year” email message to Kuehl and the Travailles on Jan. 1 — just a few days after he asked that the house be red-tagged.

Ever Have Neighbor Like This?

Want A Mayor That Has More P.G. Experience?

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P.G. has had it’s share of mayors with years of bureaucrat experience, here’s a contender that has more years of Pacific Grove experience that most ex-mayors combined.

Keep Calm Almost Miller Time

Dan Miller, 60, said that he believes his six-plus years as
a P.G. city councilman and three years on the city’s planning
commission qualify him to be mayor. “What separates me
from the rest of the council is that I vote with the people of
Pacific Grove’s best interests in mind,” Miller said.

Want A Mayor That Has More P.G. Experience?

Gone: Pump House At Top Of Eardley

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Often showed signs of cars crashing in to it. Admin once had a friend who gave me directions to her house – go up Eardley and stop at the water company building then go  right at Sinex.

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The water company offered to give the building to a group or neighborhood association for renovation, but there were no takers The structure would have been expensive
to remodel and finding a use for it would have been challenging.

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the council in October voted 6-1, with Councilman Dan Miller dissenting,to allow Cal Am to demolish the house. As a condition of that permit, the council required the historic signage be placed on the property, and that the valve gate be preserved.

Gone: Pump House At Top Of Eardley

Homeowners Sue Builders

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Said to be 176 Sloat. Probably just going to sell it in a few years.

The lawsuit identifies 167 “defects and damages” in the
construction, and the plaintiffs say it will cost $1.3 million
“to pay another contractor to complete, correct and repair
[the contractor’s] work.”
Craig Holdren told The Pine Cone he is aware of the lawsuit, and predicted his firm will be vindicated.
“While disappointing, this is not surprising,” Holdren
explained. “This is part of a larger lawsuit that the Gerstens
filed against the general contractor and all sub-contractors
almost three years ago.”
Holdren said the court has already denied the Gerstens’
attempt to add Holdren + Lietzke in that lawsuit.
“The Gerstens now filed this new lawsuit in order to avoid
the statute of limitations and to increase the demands that
they are making against the general contractor and subcontractors,” he added. “The allegations against Holdren + Lietzke have no factual merit whatsoever and we intend to vigorously assert our rights.”

Homeowners Sue Builders

Three Hour Parking For Customers Is Over

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But that doesn’t affect the Victorian Corner Crew On Fountain that park all day with no enforced limits

Parking Victorian Corner Cars

The city’s 3-hour pilot parking program, dubbed “park
once,” was designed to give patrons the ability to dine at
restaurants and “still have time to stroll along our sidewalks and make a second purchase.” But city officials found that visitors didn’t park as long as they expected.

Three-hour parking will continue on all other downtown streets and the municipal lots at  Fandango restaurant, the rear of Lighthouse Cinemas and on 15th Street to encourage storeowners and their workers to park in city lots. Though the city had proposed modifying downtown parking limit signs to say “For Customers Only” to discourage shopkeepers from parking in front of their stores, Brodeur said that didn’t happen. “Our consulting traffic engineer and city attorney told us we could not place such language on a regulatory sign because we cannot enforce it,” he said.

Three Hour Parking For Customers Is Over

Stars & Bars WILL Fly At Civil Ware Reenactment

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History does not need to be hidden or rewritten.

civil war

Event coordinator, Tim Reese, with the local chapter of
the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, told The Pine
Cone this week that the confusion originated from a series of email messages from the Presidio pertaining to the flag and this year’s event. Subsequently, Reese said he mistakenly posted on the event Facebook page that the Confederate Battle Flag would be “banned” from the encampment. “In the end,” Reese told The Pine Cone, the Presidio was referring to a ban on the “waving of the Confederate Battle Flag in a political fashion.” The event “has never engaged in such an activity of political rhetoric since [the event] was founded in 2007.”

Stars & Bars WILL Fly At Civil Ware Reenactment

Graveyard Decor Rules – No Solar, No Prohibited Memorabilia

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But cell phone towers are OK. Dan Miller was the no vote, saying that efforts could be better put toward the brown grass and gopher holes.

Dead Zone Cell Tower 2

On Wednesday, the P.G. City Council voted 6-1 to ban those things and other “prohibited objects” from being left at burial sites, niches and crypts, including “solar lights, whirling lawn ornaments” and unapproved vases. “The placement on any burial site of objects other than real or artificial flowers of a reasonable size or flags exceeding 8 inches in length and 12 inches in height is prohibited,” according to the P.G. Municipal Code, “and, if so placed, the city may remove and dispose of them at its discretion.”

Graveyard Decor Rules – No Solar, No Prohibited Memorabilia

Pacific Grove Taking Away Property Rights?

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Resident being forced to comply with someone else’s idea of appearance or risk having his home taken away.

On Sept. 12, Pacific Grove’s code compliance division heard from four residents who live near Jack Van Bebber, a resident on Grand Avenue they say has been a problem for years. They asked a hearing officer for the city to take action against Van Bebber, including placing a lien on his house.

Grand Avenue? Same street where “ground zero” for the Sustainable Pacific Grove’s shining example of green living, the old drive through bank building on Grand and Pine.

Green Spot Dump

One person’s trash is another mayor’s “sustainable society”, I guess.

Pacific Grove Taking Away Property Rights?