The 1,250-pound ocean sunfish, one of the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s most popular attractions, was euthanized early Thursday.
Aquarium veterinarian Mike Murray said the fish was euthanized after it became listless and stopped eating for a week, spending most of its time at the bottom of the aquarium’s Outer Bay exhibit.
That’s about 10,000 tacos.
Guess the moth lovers lost that one.
The state’s agriculture department announced Wednesday it plans to resume aerial spraying of pheromones over the Central Coast on June 1.
In a new 2008 “action plan” for fighting the light brown apple moth in California, the state also said it would likely release a stingless wasp in parts of Carmel, Marina and Seaside in hopes of controlling the moth, which officials say presents a threat to agriculture and the environment.
Pacific Grove’s innkeepers are crying foul over a signature-gathering campaign by the Pacific Grove Police Officers Association to put an increase in the city’s transient occupancy tax — or room tax — on the ballot.
The city supported an economic advisory committee with an annual $107,000 contribution to the Chamber of Commerce for various city activities and events. With the formation of the Hospitality Improvement District, the city now uses that money to pay part of the Convention and Visitor Bureau dues.
Pacific Grove entered a contract to pay the Convention and Visitors Bureau through 2012, said Chamber of Commerce president Moe Ammar. He and innkeepers met with police association members Monday and emerged with “an understanding that they will consider our request not to pursue a room tax.”
There’s Moammar In The Middle again.
Mention of the name may not jog your memory, but if you’ve traveled the highways you have no doubt seen his work. The farmworkers and ranchers on highway 68 outside of Salinas, the baseball game on US 101 or the 55 Chevy with the baseball in the window on Del Monte – now you know who.
This real nice looking piece depicts Mack and the other ‘Row legends that Steinbeck wrote about. A small bit of reality in a seashore of phony creations. Check it out – it’s at the foot of Bruce Ariss way, near the preserved cannery workers homes. Right about where the flophouse would be. Too bad it’s on the notorious rec trail – hope the gang members keep their distance with the persistent taggings.
Mack and the boys, the notorious slackers from John Steinbeck’s classic novel, “Cannery Row,” are lounging on the hood and bumper of a Ford Model A truck, grinning sleepily, with any problems clearly relegated to the back burners of their minds.
the full-color mural by Salinas artist John Cerney that is now on permanent display on the back wall of Mackerel Jack’s Trading Co., along the Recreation Trail between Prescott and Irving streets in Monterey.
That was the location of the Del Mar Canning Co. — and Dora’s Bear Flag Restaurant, Doc Ricketts’ lab, Lee Chong’s Grocery and La Ida’s Cafe were just up the street.
A little explanation for Steve Jobs and others who never read:
The scary rec trail. Don’t go there at night.
A Pacific Grove contractor wanted on outstanding warrants slashed his throat with a box cutter after a lengthy police pursuit Thursday morning, the California Highway Patrol said.
Michael T. Kelly, 57, was seriously injured in the apparent suicide attempt and was taken by helicopter to Regional Medical Center in Fresno.
Kelly immediately sped up, the officers said, before losing control and veering off the south side of the road. After traveling some 30 feet, the car came to a stop against a barbed-wire fence, Hall said.
At that point, officers said, Kelly took a box cutter and “began to slash his throat in an apparent suicide attempt.”
Public records show Kelly is a licensed general contractor in good standing with the state and the proprietor of Kelly Home Inspection Services in Pacific Grove.
Court and police records show he has had numerous scrapes with the law, including several warrants in recent years for probation violations.
In one of those cases, in June 2006, Monterey police reported that Kelly’s car had smashed into a residence in the 1300 block of David Avenue. Kelly was arrested for driving under the influence of cocaine, cocaine possession and driving under a suspended license, police records show.
No real new news, but this sentence brings back memories:
Enea was challenged before he built the Lighthouse Cinema in 1986 by a group opposed to the movie house project, and it was the subject of a citywide ballot referendum, which drew a large majority of votes in its favor.
Mayor Dingbat Flo was an opponent. Said that the theater would bring undesirable people from Seaside to PG.
Moe chimes in
“I am really excited,” said Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce president Moe Ammar. “I believe the cinema will do great, since it will be the most modern movie site on the Peninsula with the latest technology in the safest town.”
Pfft. The Imax in the old Edgewater Packing Company is the most modern. Moe just wants to suck more money from the business community and city. The dude is clueless.
For the second time in less than a week, a federal court has found that a Navy anti-submarine training program threatens to subject whales and other sea creatures to harmful blasts of sonar and ordered protective measures in several sensitive zones, including one near Monterey Bay.
The latest ruling, issued Wednesday by U.S. Magistrate Elizabeth Laporte of San Francisco, applies to the Navy’s use of low-frequency sonar in submarine detection exercises conducted in large areas of the world’s oceans. Navy officials agreed to restrictions after Laporte issued a similar ruling in 2002, but she said they failed to take adequate precautions when seeking a five-year renewal of the program last year.
U.S. Magistrate Stops U.S. Navy, Whales And Enemies Can Invade
Now there’s nothing to do at Good Old Days except buy overpriced schwag.
The city’s police chief, Darius Engles, announced today that the Pacific Grove Motorcycle Competition has been canceled this year. Engles cited “the lack of private donations and the city budget restraints.
The competition has been running in Pacific Grove for 20 years in conjunction with the city’s Good Old Days in April. Engles said the event was, when it started in 1987, “the first of its kind” and attracted participants from throughout the western states.
Now before anyone says anything about the view being uglified, the parked Winnebagos will hide all the meters.
Parking meters could dot the coastline in the future along Ocean View Boulevard in Pacific Grove.
Last week’s review of cost-cutting and revenue-raising measures by the Pacific Grove City Council omitted adding more parking meters as a means of making money, but the council instructed its staff to prepare the groundwork for permits from the state’s Coastal Commission.
James Becklenberg, city director of management and budget, suggested in December that Pacific Grove could reap an additional $495,000 by installing parking meters on Central Avenue, Ocean View Boulevard, Lovers Point and city parking lots in the downtown area.
Unavoidable contact or personal grudge?
The incident apparently stemmed from a long and emotional council meeting Wednesday night as city officials reviewed possible budget cuts and heard several hours of public testimony by citizens who spoke against reductions in different city departments — police, fire, library, museum and public works.
The next evening city officials and chamber members gathered at the Fandango restaurant near City Hall to celebrate the city’s joining the Monterey County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
During the event, words were exchanged between Davis and businesswoman Melody Stein, who had spoken at the council meeting against reductions in the police budget, according to several witnesses.
Davis allegedly touched Stein on the arm, then jostled her as he brushed past her to leave the room.