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$300,000.00 In Tax Revenue For Pot Sales Downgraded

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Butterfly Weed

Chaps Poduri must have been high when he estimated that figure

“It is estimated that one cannabis dispensary within city limits could bring in $300,000 annually,” according to the argument in support of the 2022 ballot measure given to voters that was signed by councilman Chaps Poduri and then-council candidate and current councilwoman Tina Rau.”Why should Pacific Grove lose out on this revenue stream?”
But in a public report to councilmembers ahead of last week’s meeting, city manager Matt Mogensen said that the estimated annual revenue to the city for a pot shop is now estimated to be “up to $50,000.”

$300,000.00 In Tax Revenue For Pot Sales Downgraded

P.G. Fires Cops In Schools

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Afraid of guns? Or give the student one less resource to go to when being abused by teachers?

PGhs Speling

The board’s decision not to continue the program comes after an incident in September 2024 in which a transient who trespassed on the P.G. High threatened to shoot a school employee. In November 2023, another man vowed to kill P.G. High’s former principal after wandering around
inside the city’s middle school.
School board member Jennifer McNary pointed to numerous reasons she didn’t want a police presence at P.G. schools.’ ‘I’m not in favor of guns on campuses,” McNary said.

P.G. Fires Cops In Schools

Wild Fish Manager Getting Deported

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Add to the list of legal fails at Liz Jacobs’ P.G. restaurant.

Wildfish menu

Juan Carlos Contreras, 43, was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement officials June 4, according to the owners of Wild Fish on Lighthouse Avenue, where he’s worked for five years. While Contreras has lived in the United States for about 25 years, immigration officials have started efforts to deport him.

according to Monterey County Superior Court documents, he was arrested Feb. 4, 2018, and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, excessive blood alcohol content of nearly twice the legal limit, DUI with a previous conviction within IO years, and hit-and-run. In October 2022, Contreras again pleaded guilty to DUI and enhancements of excessive blood alcohol and multiple DUIs in exchange for prosecutors dropping the other charges.
A plea agreement reviewed by The Pine Cone shows that, in exchange for the deal,  Contreras signed a form that stated, “I understand that if I am not a United States citizen, that my plea of guilty or no contest may result in Immigration consequences such as deportation, exclusion from  admission into the United States, and denial of naturalization or amnesty”

Wild Fish Manager Getting Deported

Cal Am HQ Leaving P.G.

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Country Club Gate becoming a ghost town?

The relocation will centralize Cal Am’s field operations employees and office staff, including customer service. A listing for the building by commercial real estate firm Mahoney & Associates, said “the property is conveniently situated along the Highway 68 corridor between Monterey and Salinas.” The building is located between Upper and Lower Ragsdale drives. California American Water has been located on Forest Lodge Road in Pacific Grove since 2007.

Cal Am HQ Leaving P.G.

Chinesium Battery Starts Fire At Forest Grove School

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Add this to the list of hazards we are warned about at Forest Grove.

fire inside a Pacific Grove classroom Thursday morning caused by a lithium-ion-powered battery was prevented from spreading after a quick-thinking teacher used sand her students play with to put it out, the Monterey Fire Department said.
Firefighters were dispatched to Forest Grove Elementary School just before 10 a.m., while summer school was in session. Division Chief Justin Cooper said the origin of the fire was a portable voice amplifier, a device teachers use to boost their voices in the classroom

Chinesium Battery Starts Fire At Forest Grove School

Family Suing Pebble Beach Over Missing Relative

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. . the body was never recovered. Alien abduction or ?

At about 1:30 p.m., the Dengs paid the $12.25 entrance fee to Pebble Beach and eventually made their way to the China Rock lookout area along 17 Mile Drive.
The complaint claims Deng and his family got out of the car and “stood on the dirt and grassy area near the rocks to view the ocean.”

“When Xue Deng turned around, his father was gone,” the lawsuit says. When the family “looked out to the ocean, they saw Guoqiang Deng struggling in the water as he was swept away by the waves. ” Because of the “treacherous waters,” first responders used a drone and helicopter to search for the elderly man, but they did not find him, the suit says. “To date, Guoqiang Deng’s body has not been recovered, and he is presumed dead.”

Family Suing Pebble Beach Over Missing Relative

All Those Opposed To The Self-Awarded Pay Hike, Sign The Referendum

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City Hall

A group of residents opposed to the Pacific Grove City Council’s decision last week to give itself an immediate 130 percent pay raise is hoping to overturn the idea by putting it to a vote of the people. The council on May 21 passed an ordinance to increase their monthly pay from $420 to $966, and from $700 to $1,610 for the mayor. Councilmembers Lori McDonnell and Paul Walkingstick voted against the pay hike.
In response, a group calling itself Transparent Pacific Grove filed referendum paperwork with the city clerk May 23. Former city councilman Luke Coletti filed the documents for the group.

All Those Opposed To The Self-Awarded Pay Hike, Sign The Referendum

Water Main Breakers

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School Spirt, eh.

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The California American Water break occurred after noon in the bus parking zone which parents also use to drop off and pick-up their kids on Sunset Avenue. Former P.G. City Councilman Dan Miller said that about two years ago — before Mogensen was city manager — he complained to city officials about a significant bulge in the pavement in front of the high school, but nothing was done about it. The pavement bulge turned out to be where the water main-break occurred.

Water Main Breakers

Tina Uses The Power Of The Force

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Uses her vote allowing loud music at a bar she owns.

Tina Big Jacket

Pacific Grove officials are mum one week after a member of the city council voted on a new city rule that some residents say amounted to a conflict of interest. At the March 19 council a council meeting, councilman Joe Amelio proposed an ordinance to allow louder music at downtown businesses and restaurants. The revised noise law would benefit several establishments that host live and recorded music, including a venue called Pop & Hiss at 215 Forest Ave.
But just before the council was to deliberate on the proposal, a resident said during the public comment period that councilwoman Tina Rau should recuse herself from the discussion since she owns the building that Pop & Hiss occupies. Rau did not do that, and neither she nor the other five council members addressed the issue. Minutes later, Rau made a motion to allow louder music. The city council passed the measure 4-2.

Tina Uses The Power Of The Force

New Police Chief Starts March 31

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Kung Fu Chief starts soon.

City manager Matt Mogensen said he selected Casey Day, a law enforcement officer with about 25 years of experience who’s spent the last five years as the chief for the City of Fortuna in Humboldt County. Day will start the job March 31 and will be sworn in April 2 in P.G. City Council chambers.

Day will replace former PGPD Chief Cathy Madalone, who said on Sept. 27, 2024, that she was retiring after five years at the department. Madalone’s retirement came after she suffered an undisclosed injury in late 2023 and worked from home for months. Madalone, 56, eventually went on paid leave for about six months before retiring. She declined to disclose the nature of her injury. Brian Anderson has been the acting chief since her departure.

New Police Chief Starts March 31