Category Archives: Carmel Pine Cone

Tourist Still Missing After Being Swept Off Rocks

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Getting out on the rocks in heavy waves is not smart.

Sunset Waves 2

a tourist from China in his 70s, was with family members when he disappeared about 2 p.m. after climbing onto some rocks between Spanish Bay and Bird Rock. Drones, divers and a helicopter were deployed just after he went missing, but he wasn’t found
“He was taking a photo and was swept off the rocks by a wave,” Silveira told The Pine Cone Thursday. The Chinese man was wearing jeans and a hooded sweatshirt at the time of the mishap. “He had flown in from China very recently to visit family, who live in the San Francisco Bay area, and they came down to see the big waves and unfortunately he was washed away,” Silveira said.

Tourist Still Missing After Being Swept Off Rocks

So Cal Consultants Hired To Roll Up Weed Permits

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City manager Matt Mogensen hired the consultants for $24K. Two years sales taxes on PG Weed might cover the fee, eh?

Butterfly Weed

The initial term of the contract with HdL is expected to be less than $24,000 through December 2026. “Consultant fees to the city will only be charged for the hours necessary to finalize the application process and establish the user fees,” according to a report by Mogensen presented to the council at its Dec. 18 meeting.
“The user fees will cover all other costs associated with the consultant’s work and will be charged to the applicant,” the report said. After voter approval of a pot shop, the council directed city officials to create a licensing program to allow the operation of a retail storefront. A cannabis business must first obtain a license to operate from the city before getting a use permit.

Citizens Inge Lorentzen Daumer and Mike Gibbs opposed hiring HdL, with Gibbs, a member of the city’s Economic Development Commission, saying he believed the company’s services were “particularly poor,” while Daumer said she had “never been a fan” of the consulting firm. The city council did not entertain their concerns.

So Cal Consultants Hired To Roll Up Weed Permits

P.G. Style Remodel On Cannery Row Questioned

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One person’s “repair and maintenance” is another’s teardown and replace.

Since 2018, a developer has been seeking permission to renovate a rundown concrete building at 300 Cannery Row to build eight condominiums and retail and commercial space. While the City of Monterey approved a permit for the project, staffers at the California Coastal Commission recommended that the 12-member commission deny applicant The 300 LLC a development permit.

P.G. Style Remodel On Cannery Row Questioned

Cultural Calendar Adds Days

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DEI, still offending the Christian faith I see.

A Pacific Grove diversity panel which earlier this year omitted Christmas and Easter from a “cultural calendar” has included the major holidays on a revised version of the document, but one of the panel’s members this week expressed hesitation in adding more European and American cultural events for fear of making it “bland”.

Cultural Calendar Adds Days

P.G. Land Acknowledgment Should Include Prehistoric Life

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The Dinosaur Equity and Inclusion committee insists that they were here before the humans. After all, they gave their lives so we could have petroleum.

dino and butterflies

If the city council OKs Rau’s recommendation, it will follow the Pacific Grove Unified School District, which notes in part at its board meetings that “we are on the traditional land of the Ohlone, Costanoan and Esselen people.’

P.G. Land Acknowledgment Should Include Prehistoric Life

Parklets Gone, Sidewalks Emerge

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Aint it odd when it’s called the Lighthouse Avenue Widening Project when all it does to the street is make it narrower?

On Monday, construction crews tore down the wooden dining parklet in front of Wild Fish restaurant following last week’s demolition of adjacent parklets owned by restaurants Victorian Comer and Rudolfo’s Café. On Tuesday morning, a worker in a small John Deere excavator near the parklet used the vehicle’s bucket to fracture concrete, before lifting it up and dropping it into an awaiting dump truck.
The Lighthouse Avenue Widening Project, as it’s called, includes open-air seating separated by fencing in front of the three restaurants.

Parklets Gone, Sidewalks Emerge

Cure For Parklet Pandemic

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Tearing them down. Started as sidewalk dining then turned into full blown building additions. Walls Come Down

“The remaining parklet for Wild Fish restaurant will be removed Nov. 25,” Pacific Grove City manager Matt Mogensen told The Pine Cone this week. “The sidewalk widening project is expected to be completed prior to the end of the year, weather permitting.
The project involves building open-air seating areas in front of the three restaurants. Pedestrian traffic will be directed to’ a wider, 8-foot pathway between the outer portion of the fenced dining areas and Lighthouse Avenue. Other work includes removing trees and planting new ones in metal-grated wells, relocating signs and an existing light pole, while adding new pavement striping and markings.

Cure For Parklet Pandemic

School Creeper Riley Elvin Released On Probation

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I don’t think that is the right call, Judge Butler.

Riley Elvin

A man who trespassed onto two Pacific Grove school campuses in 2023 and threatened to kill the former principal of P.G. High was put on probation last week and freed from Monterey County Jail.
On Nov. 13, Monterey County Superior Court Judge Pamela Butler sentenced Riley Elvin, 29, to felony probation. The order means he must abide by a strict set of conditions, including abstaining from drugs and alcohol, seeking and maintaining employment, and staying 100 yards away from Pacific Grove High School.

School Creeper Riley Elvin Released On Probation

Spyglass Pro Shop Burglarized

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No name on the apprehended suspect.

“They had video surveillance of the incident,” Rosas said, and from that, investigators were able to identify the two people who had broken into the shop. The damage the duo caused totaled around $3,100, but they didn’t manage to steal anything. One of them, a 26-year-old woman from Pebble Beach, has been arrested and charged with conspiracy, burglary and felony vandalism, according to Rosas.

Spyglass Pro Shop Burglarized

Pasadena Woman Arrested At Bide A Wee

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Happy holidays indeed.

Bide A Wee

A Southern California woman was arrested Nov. 3 on charges of beating a member of her family at a Pacific Grove inn, the PG. Police Department said. Pasadena resident Huasha Liu, 67, was arrested at 221 Asilomar Ave., the location of the Bide-a-Wee Inn & Cottages

It is unclear which relationship applied in Liu’s case. As of Thursday afternoon, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office had not yet charged her with a crime.

Pasadena Woman Arrested At Bide A Wee