There’s been some nasty boats parked there for years.
last week, a damaged vessel sank near the dock, requiring a multi-agency effort to clean up the mess and get the wreckage to shore. To protect itself and other owners from damage and liability, the City of Monterey is requiring proof of insurance for all boats in slips or attached to mooring balls to be provided to the harbormaster by September 1.
Certified nurse assistant Paul Nkoy Lumbi Jr., 60, was arrested for multiple felony crimes against patients of Forest Hill Manor, including lewd act on a dependent adult, forcible rape and rape of a person incapable of giving consent. California Attorney General Rob Bonta did not say when Lumbi stopped working at Forest Hill Manor, but he was most recently employed by Cypress Ridge Care Center on Skyline Drive in Monterey The facility’s administrator told the Pine Cone Lumbi Jr. no longer works there.
Did he get a job description?
In a surprise announcement at Wednesday night’s Pacific Grove City Council meeting, city attorney Brian Pierik said he would step down after only three years in the role.
Pierik, 75, began working for P.G. in July 2022, after the council voted to retain the Los Angeles-based law firm he works for, Burke, Williams & Sorensen LLP. Another attorney with the same firm attorney, Gregory Rubens, was hired as the assistant city attorney.
From 2022 to 2023 before the care home was sold to “new owners”.
A civil complaint filed Aug. 19 by prosecutors contends that Sandeep and Anuradha Saini, who previously owned Del Monte Assisted Living on David Avenue, also allowed non-caregiver staff without background checks to perform duties that allowed them to interact with residents and did not have adequate training to meet residents’ medical and care needs.
A party at a Caltrans office in Monterey earlier this month in which a stripper purportedly entertained on-the-clock workers, who also drank alcohol before departing in official vehicles, was condemned by an agency spokesman Monday.
Employees allegedly held the party July 10 for an unidentified employee at the 2111 Garden Road office, according to KSBW which was tipped off about the party by an unnamed source. “It involved open consumption of alcohol, the presence of a hired stripper and employees participating while on the clock and being paid with taxpayer dollars,” according to the source. The event was ‘ ‘interrupted by another supervisor who arrived unexpectedly and witnesses the situation firsthand,” according to the news station.
City must be too busy with roundabouts or Gaza protests to preserve its natural beauty.
On July 22, with supporters in attendance, nonprofit Pacific Grove Cares unveiled the transformed Chase Park West, which for many years was overgrown with weeds and had generally been ignored. While the park is under the City of Pacific Grove’s purview, and maintenance would otherwise be paid for by taxpayers’ dollars, the group funded the redo through donations.
P.G. Cares founder Peggy Gibbs credited the donors, the most generous of whom were realtor Debby Beck and restaurateur Kevin Phillips. Carmel Cares, a group headed by Dale Byrne, that city’s mayor who was at the ribbon cutting at the park last week, also contributed to the project.
The three men who died in a plane crash in Pacific Grove Saturday night while returning from a scuba diving trip off the coast of Cuba are being remembered this week as adventurous and kind souls who were the heart of the Monterey Peninsula diving community Steve Clatterbuck, 60, Jamie Tabscott, 44, and pilot James Vincent Jn, 36, died when the twin-engine Beechcraft Baron carrying them home from the San Francisco Bay area crashed into the ocean near Asilomar State Beach at about 10:30 p.m. July 26, The friends and coworkers were on their way back from a seven-day dive trip to Jardines dela Reina, an archipelago located about 60 miles off the southeastern coast of Cuba.
Charming, just charming. Sorry not sorry Ojai.
Ben Harvey resigned from his Pacific Grove post in July 2023 after the city council voted 6-0 to 0K a separation agreement with him. Harvey later took on the same
role with the City of Ojai. However, in the past month or so, three former Ojai workers filed complaints against the Ventura County city.In a July 15 government claim, former
finance director Pamela Greer said that in early 2024, about a month after Harvey began working for the city, he requested to be reimbursed for unspecified expenses.
When Greer asked to see his employment agreement to confirm the expenses were authorized, she claims Harvey said, “Why can’t you just process the reimbursement?”
Greer, who is seeking at least $ I million in damages, accuses Harvey of disrespecting “basic financial procedures from the start,” and says he and others engaged in illegal activity, including paying vendors based on estimates rather than invoices, carrying over unspent funds from one fiscal year to the next, misusing grant funds, and requesting that she advise Harvey on his personal taxes.
Greer claims Harvey and other city offcials fired her in March for reporting the alleged wrongdoing. She said Harvey also informed the city council that he found $8 million missing in the city’s budget, “casting aspersions of financial fraud and lack of transparency on Greer and the previous city administration.”
Starting to resemble a third world shanty town.
The last of the Covid-era dining structures that allowed people to eat outside in Pacific Grove are being torn down.
While there were some ardent supporters Of the parklets, they were installed during the Covid-19 pandemic and were never intended to be permanent. Others criticized the structures for being ugly and occupying parking spaces.
Fake History being accepted as truth.
However, such acknowledgments have come under scrutiny for being little more than feel-good measures. That sentiment and others were discussed in a lengthy article by two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill associate professors — who are also members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the Choctaw Nation — and a San Diego professor. The statements, they said, often fail to include that indigenous groups owned the land, describing indigenous peoples as mere “stewards” or custodians.”