Not a repeat of 1987.
Power has been restored to the more than 6,000 residents of Pacific Grove and unincorporated Monterey Peninsula who lost power after the incident, according to a Pacific Gas & Electric spokesperson.
The cause of the fire appears to be downed tree falling onto a utility pole, McCarthy adds, but that information could change as fire crews gather more information.
Highway 68 is currently closed from Skyline Forest Dr. into Pacific Grove.
It’s not about nature anymore. It’s another friggin’ art gallery and substainable reeducation camp.
They come from a revisit of the strategic plan by the board, staff and volunteers (though, strangely, no direct input from the public), and set to go before city officials for approval.
Much of the implementation is guided by Juan Govea, the museum’s new director of exhibits and education, who formerly taught biology at Salinas High School for 11 years.
“The role of museums are changing,” he says. “We are making some adjustments to be more valuable to the community… building and adding to create a more rich user experience.”
They’ve moved the 20-year-old interactive whale exhibit out, squeezed the gift shop into that space, installed paintings of the Monterey Bay Plein Air Painters Association in the gallery, and moved the Chinese village exhibit to a recessed arm off the lobby.
Credited to a Mark C. Anderson. Is that one and the same as the editor of the Coast Weakly? Must be why the list of places to leave money at looks like an accounts receivable for ads roster from the same tabloid.
Check this one out – the expert flubs the location in the article. Where is Grove Avenue any way?
Midday
Arm thyself for a picnic on the water at Grove Market and Pavel’s Backerei, two institutions that sit opposite each other on classic small-town drive Grove Avenue. Deli sandwiches, fine cheeses and classic counter service beckon at the timeless neighborhood market; celebrated chocolate-bellied croissants, superior breads and cream-cheese danishes await at Pavel’s, if they haven’t sold out.
Often walked past this huge house on the way to school. Thought it was a neat alternative to old victorians and other ’50s ranch styles.
Google maps street view
In early 2013, a tenant at 1009 Forest complained to the
city about inadequate living conditions. A building inspection later found there was no permanent source of heat, a leaking roof, lack of smoke detectors, hazardous wiring, a termite infestation and a garage deck railing in poor condition.
“There was a complaint made so we had to inspect the site,” says John Kuehl, building official for Monterey and Pacific Grove. “The building has a number of issues: electrical, plumbing. There were sparks and hazardous wiring. There was also an extra unit installed without approval.”
Boyes contends all the claims are false and that an inspection was illegally made without her consent. Throughout 2013 when the city started to take actions against the alleged code violations at the property, Coleman was in and out of the hospital with various ailments and unable to respond to the city’s notices. The city has placed a $113,465 lien on the property.
Coleman claims tenants made the original complaints to get out of paying rent, which they avoided paying after Pacific Grove posted notices of violations at the property. Boyes says Coleman had to file a cease-and-desist order to remove the tenants from the property and to collect back rent.
Would be better as residential studios but greed is the driver here.
When the press release arrived in email inboxes yesterday, announcing there were firm plans to replace Pacific Grove’s American Tin Cannery with a luxury hotel, it only hinted at the grand ambitions of developers Domaine Hospitality Partners, LLC.
The statement read that “Project Bella”—the working title for the development—“aims to be the leading luxury hotel in the United States.”
By Tom Fruitcheese and the Monterey Peninsula Water Pollution Creation Agency. Protesters tried to stop it with a written campaign but fell short, kind of knee deep in the sewage.
The city’s aging sewer system has led to repeat sewage spills into protected coastal waters. Officials sought the fee hike to cover the long-term costs of repairing it, pinned at $13.9 million over 10 years.
“Portions of the sewer system are almost 100 years old,” P.G. City Manager Tom Frutchey writes by email. “In order to keep the system functioning effectively, for the safety of residents and the protection of the Bay, the council adopted the proposed rates. Throughout the 10-year period, future councils will be able to make further adjustments.”
Meanwhile, the Monterey Peninsula Taxpayers Association has pressured the city to refund a $600,000-plus sewer fee overcharge to residents. Officials have said they’d rather apply it as a credit against the upcoming fee hike.
Another bad decision by Tom Fruit-Cheese. Why would Comcast or ATT want to use SiFi Networks’ fiber cables in sewers when they already have their own? Who wants to work on cables soaking in poop? And what happens when the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Creation Agency breaks a valve? Does the internet go out or just ooze sewage into your computer?
In a revised deal still under negotiation, City Manager Tom Frutchey says, SiFi would construct and install the network. Internet service providers such as AT&T and Comcast would pay the city for each customer who signs up, he says, and the city in turn would use that money to lease the system from SiFi for 30 years. When the term is up, the city would own the system. According to staff calculations, P.G. would net $1 million over 10 years.
Pacific Grove City Council made a deal with London-based SiFi Networks to install fiber-optic Internet cables through the city’s sewer pipes. The company announced it had selected P.G. as a California “FiberCity,” intended to showcase speeds of up to 1 gigabyte per second – 20 times faster than the fastest DSL connection – and the network would be installed by the end of 2015. SiFi would cover the construction costs, up to $40 million.
According to the Weakly.
Marge Ann Wimpee, also known as Marge Ann Jameson, editor of P.G.’s Cedar Street Times, is filing for Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Among her biggest creditors: The Pacific Grove Hometown Bulletin, The Salinas Californian and The Register-Pajaronian.
According to filings with U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Jameson has almost $133,000 in unsecured debt. The big media creditors: Pacific Grove Hometown Bulletin, Inc. ($45,000); the Pajaronian($19,000) and the Californian ($17,000).
Jameson lists her monthly net income as $475 and values her personal property at $50,000. Most of that, $44,000, is tied up in Cedar Street stocks, interests and accounts receivable.
Jameson responds by email: “It’s a Chapter 13… no one’s business but mine and the creditors.”
Former Bulletin co-owner Xavier Maruyama says he and Edie McDonald sold Jameson the paper in 2013 for about $70,000. Jameson made the first payment of about $30,000, Maruyama says, but hasn’t paid since. “We had to sue her,” he says. “We found out we’re third in line.”
Says the S.S. even though their own graphic shows that the P.G. shoreline is not in the restricted zone.
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Superintendent Paul Michel, who yesterday issued a press release warning that unmanned aircraft systems—aka quadcopters or aerial drones—are regulated, and in some places banned, above sanctuary waters.
Low-flying planes over the beaches and ocean, piloted or not, can scare marine wildlife such as seals, sea otters, seabirds and shorebirds, Michel writes.Even outside those areas, he adds, it’s illegal to harass marine animals, turtles and birds. In various direct and indirect ways, the presence of drones can stress and even kill wildlife.
Would Thom Akemans’s presence frighten the mammals? Will they ban him too?
Plumbing contractor sends sewage down storm drain, public works lets drain empty to ocean.
Both the MFD and the Monterey County Health Dept. were informed by MPW last night that the diversion pump had been switched on, Ramirez says, but this morning the health department was informed by MPW that the switch was still turned off. Ramirez could not elaborate as whether the error was mechanical or human, but a statement issued by the health department earlier today said it was a “mechanical failure.”