Category Archives: Monterey Herald

City Manager Jim Colangelo Right At Home

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Many Pacific Grove residents tell City Manager Jim Colangelo they don’t want the city to change. But what they don’t realize is the city already has, Colangelo said.

“It’s not the way it was in the 1980s and early ’90s,” said Colangelo. “Pacific Grove was an affordable place to live. It was a place that had a lot of working families; the schools were full of kids. Now, school enrollment is dropping like crazy because young families can’t afford to live here.”

It is that obvious, but no one did anything about it. Schenk brought up creating worker housing at Fort Ord. Oh that’s great, separate the classes. If people wanted to live in C-Side they would move there.

City Manager Jim Colangelo Right At Home

Peak Oil Myth Attracts Crowd In P.G.

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Deborah Lindsay – shilling for the socialists that hate America.

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Spiking energy costs and shrinking oil supplies may take a toll on America’s suburbs, but at least in Pacific Grove, residents will have a chance to advise the city on how to meet a future energy crunch.

The result could be improved mass transit, a self-contained water supply and a smarter use of the city’s resources.

A May 30 workshop is meant to assess the city’s current energy resources. Deborah Lindsay, co-founder of Sustainable Monterey County who speaks nationally on energy topics, will lead it.

Peak Oil Myth Attracts Crowd In P.G.

Politico Pay Prevails

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The Pacific Grove City Council knocked down a proposal on Wednesday that would have eliminated council pay.

On a 5-2 vote, the council rejected a proposal by Councilman Scott Miller that would have eliminated the mayor’s $700 monthly stipend and the $420 each council member receives.

Susan Goldbeck said Miller was motivated by a need to help the city, but that council members needed to be reimbursed for their effort.

Politico Pay Prevails

Chinese Descendants Honor Pioneer Ancestors

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Chinese settlers burned incense and placed votive offerings of food, wine, whiskey and tea to honor their ancestors, who were burned out of their seaside village homes 100 years ago Tuesday.

Sisters Marjorie Walsh of Salinas and Geraldine Low-Sabado of Fremont organized a family reunion in Monterey to visit ancestral graves and reflect on the ordeals their pioneer ancestors faced in an often hostile 19th century California.

The picture-postcard view from Hopkins’ backyard was once a picturesque jumble of wooden shacks on stilts that enthralled landscape painters and offended the white residents of Monterey and Pacific Grove.

The fire that destroyed the village ended a long-standing campaign by the Pacific Improvement Co. to get the Chinese to move elsewhere. Histories of the village indicate that it had burned twice in its 50-year existence before the 1906 fire finished it off.

Chinese Descendants Honor Pioneer Ancestors

Olinger Slaying Suspect Has Criminal Record

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A spokeswoman for the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Tuesday that Jacobo Ruelas, 27, pleaded no contest to carjacking and robbery charges in that county in 1998 and was sentenced to six years in state prison.

Lana Wyant said Ruelas committed the robbery on May 5, 1998, and the carjacking on May 7, 1998. Details of the crimes were not available Tuesday afternoon.

While Ruelas did not enter a plea Tuesday, Martinez said he is denying guilt. The Salinas lawyer said Ruelas was raised by hardworking parents in Soledad and graduated from Gonzalez High School.

Olinger Slaying Suspect Has Criminal Record

Suspect In Olinger Slaying Arrested

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Shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, officers arrested Jacobo Ruelas, a suspect in the nearly nine-year-old slaying of Kristopher Olinger, a 17-year-old who was beaten and stabbed to death on the Pacific Grove Recreation Trail in 1997.

After a three-hour search near Bradley, a small town in south Monterey County, a SWAT team made up of sheriff’s deputies, six Pacific Grove police officers, California Highway Patrol and state parks’ officers arrested Ruelas, of Soledad, on a $3 million arrest warrant issued Friday in connection with the murder.

Suspect In Olinger Slaying Arrested

Olinger Murder Suspect Named

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After eight and a half years of investigating, Pacific Grove police have issued an arrest warrant for a Soledad man for the murder of Kristopher Olinger, a 17-year-old who was stabbed and beaten to death along the Recreation Trail in Pacific Grove.

Police said a “hit” in a new palm-print identification database led them to Jacobo Ruelas, 27, who was named as a “key suspect” in the case Friday. After eluding arrest earlier this week, Ruelas is wanted on a $3 million warrant.

Olinger Murder Suspect Named

Tidepool Police Need A Life

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Letter from the editor – the Hear-old

Am I the only one getting tired of the incessant whining by the Pacific Grove Tidepool Coalition?
The coalition makes it seem like the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Hopkins Marine Station are self-serving bullies bent on turning the P.G. coastline into a watery desert. In fact, no two institutions have done more to promote the stewardship of our oceans in general and our local intertidal eco-system in particular.
If the coalition needs a tide pool project, perhaps it should look into the effects of the fertilizer and herbicide runoff from the P.G. golf course after each rain.

Nope, I am also tired of it. I imagine the tidepool nazis want to fence off the shoreline and not let anyone in from the land or sea. Soon the beaches will be littered with flotsam, stinky and unused.

Tidepool Police Need A Life

Caregiver Runs Up Unauthorized Credit Card Charges

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Talielia Mekemke Naufahu, 45, of San Mateo was booked in lieu of $30,000 on suspicion of grand theft and theft from elders, police said.

Naufahu was hired as a caregiver for the couple in the past year. Police began investigating Naufahu after a member of the couple’s family found “unusual charges” on some of their credit cards.

Caregiver Runs Up Unauthorized Credit Card Charges

Not All Tourists Are In Blissful Love

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What started as a weekend getaway at a Pacific Grove bed and breakfast turned bad for a Dublin couple Sunday.

The couple were staying at a bed and breakfast on the 200 block of Ocean View when Darren Errol Lawson, 28 allegedly assaulted his girlfriend about midnight Sunday. Police said Lawson left the room after the first attack and his girlfriend, a 31-year-old also from Dublin, locked the door and tried to call police.

Maybe the scones were stale that day . .

Not All Tourists Are In Blissful Love