Category Archives: Monterey Herald

Fire Breaks Out In Pebble Beach!

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Smoke filled the Del Monte Park area, the constant drone of copters and air tanker planes can make a person pause and think what would they do if evacuated. Prepared?

Fire Helicopter

From The Hear-old

The fire broke out about 5:35 p.m. near Congress and Majella roads and was contained quickly, said Capt. Jennifer Valdez of Calfire-Pebble Beach Community Services District.

Crews were assisted by two air tankers and a helicopter in stopping the fire. No structures were threatened, Valdez said.

From KSBW:

The forest was so dense that fire crews had to cut their way in to get to the fire.

“We had an air tanker in and they made five drops,” said Battalion Chief Dennis King with the Department of Forestry. “Then we had a helicopter that worked it and probably made a dozen drops on it.”

Fire Breaks Out In Pebble Beach!

Cops Catch BB Gun Vandals

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Every so often you read about (or become the victim of) people that cruise around shooting out car windows. Looks like this one didn’t get away.

Three 18-year-old Pacific Grove men face misdemeanor vandalism, assault and conspiracy charges after a pellet-shooting spree in Monterey, a police spokesman said Friday.

A 17-year-old boy and a 24-year-old man in the truck were released, Taylor said. Two pellet rifles were found in the suspects’ truck, he said.

Police identified the suspects as Abraham Ruiz, Blake Andrews and Ian Hesse.

Cops Catch BB Gun Vandals

Letters From The Editor: Feast Of Lanterns Racist?

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Fritz Liess writes

My best friend is renting a room to a Monterey Institute of International Studies student from China. This visitor was quite troubled by Thursday’s Go! section cover article about Pacific Grove’s Feast of Lanterns. We found ourselves trying to explain why white westerners put on such a pageant dressed in stereotypical Chinese costumes.

We did not have answers to the following questions: How is the Feast of Lanterns different from anti-Semitic passion plays in Europe and black-face minstrel shows of the Jim Crow South?

It’s a play, that’s all. And maybe the student should first look in the mirror and ask questions about racism in China

French Men And Dogs

Letters From The Editor: Feast Of Lanterns Racist?

Adieu KAZU, Station Leaves P.G.

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After earthquakes and fires they are consumed by the college and taken away. Used to be funky, hometown public radio. Gone downhill ever since taking up the same NPR stuff you could hear everywhere else.

Adieu Kazu

Public radio station KAZU 90.3 FM has completed its move from Pacific Grove to the campus of CSU-Monterey Bay.

The studio and offices of the National Public Radio affiliate are now housed in the Foundation Building at Sixth Avenue and Inter-Garrison Road. The signal was switched over July 13 from its previous facility.

Adieu KAZU, Station Leaves P.G.

Safeway Parking Lot Robber Gets 24 Years

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Think he’ll really serve all that time? Doubtful. He served time for a 1991 murder and was out on the street robbing people in 2005.

A Salinas man who robbed a woman outside the Safeway store in Pacific Grove has been sentenced to 24 years in prison, the District Attorney’s Office announced Friday.

Pablo Castaneda, 42, was convicted by a jury in August for the December 2005 armed robbery of a female customer in the grocery store parking lot. The robber took her purse at gunpoint.

Safeway Parking Lot Robber Gets 24 Years

Pacific Grove Feast Of Lanterns # 103

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FOL 2006

Pacific Grove’s 103rd annual Feast of Lanterns started with cake at the official opening ceremony and cake cutting Wednesday in Chautauqua Hall. (The cakes celebrated the festival’s 103rd and the city’s 119th birthdays.)

The Feast of Lanterns actually got started a few days earlier at the Tea and Fashion Show Saturday at Chautauqua Hall, where the court of eight “princesses” and the “queen” modeled vintage Feast of Lanterns costuming.

Street Dance on Lighthouse Avenue tonight. Entertainment & Fireworks on the beach tomorrow. More information at www.feastoflanterns.org

Pacific Grove Feast Of Lanterns # 103

Why Teachers Need More $$

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To pay their attorney. Another sick-o gets busted for kiddie porn.

The teacher, Craig Dinwiddie, 52, of Gonzales was arrested on seven counts of possession of child pornography, two counts of distributing child pornography, two counts of annoying or molesting children and possession of marijuana, police Chief Paul Miller said.

Why Teachers Need More $$

Mr. Bell – New P.G.H.S. Principal

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Interesting – a principal that has more than a few years of experience in P.G. schools. Kudos to the district.

Bell first worked at the high school in 1983 as a math teacher and as the head swimming coach. He moved on to principal at Robert Down Elementary and Pacific Grove Middle School, where he last worked.

Superintendent Ralph Porras says promoting Bell to principal made sense because of his knowledge of and history with the district.

Mr. Bell – New P.G.H.S. Principal

Stamm Trial Proves You Cannot Hide Porn

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Sicko

David Stamm

Pacific Grove police searched Stamm’s home and seized a laptop after Doe went to authorities in 2007. With the help of a forensic computer expert at the Salinas Police Department, Pesenhofer said, they learned that Stamm used a program called Evidence Eliminator to scrub files from the computer on June 12, 2007.

Despite efforts to erase files from the computer, Pesenhofer said, police found several pornographic photos of teenage boys and a video of two young male teens performing oral sex.

Stamm Trial Proves You Cannot Hide Porn

Barbara bAss Evans Fails

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Onward, Pave Our Waterfront.

All the slab-hugging hippies can blame bAss Evans for losing the fight.
Ocean Veiw Plaza

The ruling issued Thursday by a three-judge panel of the 6th District Court of Appeal slapped down an appeal filed by the Save Our Waterfront Committee.

The project, approved by the Monterey City Council in June 2004, calls for its own water supply from a desalination plant because the city has no more water available. The City Council volunteered to serve as the board of directors of the special district for the desalination plant.

The project, first proposed in 1997, calls for four buildings in a 92,000-square-foot complex on both sides of Cannery Row with shops,restaurant space, 38 market-rate condominiums and 13 low-cost housing units.

Barbara bAss Evans Fails