Pacific Grove City Manager Jim Colangelo has hired a high-powered accounting firm to scrutinize the city’s finances after the discovery of what appears to be a $2.3 million accounting error.
The firm will also look into what happened to $1 million that was believed to have been moved from the enterprise fund several years ago and was never accounted for, Colangelo said.
Thanks Morrie & Crew.
State gaming agents raided two Peninsula bars Monday night and cited seven people on gambling-related charges.
Segovia’s owner Laurence Segovia, 62, was cited on charges of using his business as an unlicensed cardroom and conducting an illegal sports betting operation. Two bartenders, Ross Blankenship, 33, and Walter Hayes, 61, were arrested on charges of operating a betting pool. Hayes was also arrested on a charge of possessing an ounce of cocaine for sale.
The shutdown notice on the door of Segovias kept dissapearing. Souvenir hunters or image thing?
More than 100 cats, many sick with respiratory illnesses and fleas, were rescued from a Pacific Grove residence Tuesday afternoon.
Acting on a tip received last week, Pacific Grove police entered the home of an elderly widow in the 1300 block of Miles Street, where they found 136 cats.
Every town has it’s ‘cat lady’ of the year story . .
A trail of auto parts led Monterey police to a young woman and man pushing a cart filled with stolen merchandise early Wednesday morning.
It turned out that the man pushing the cart and loading the items into a van worked as a Kragen Auto Parts manager during the day.
Monterey police arrested Scott Russo, 27, and Elisabeth Roberts, 24, for allegedly burglarizing the Kragen Auto Parts store at 400 Lighthouse Ave.
As they left the store, Russo and Roberts dropped items, leaving a trail that helped police find them, police said.
Scott Russo
I have little sympathy for the land bandits. Sometimes you can’t walk on the sidewalk without navigating the barricades of tacky open house signs. The Keller-Williams sign pictured here is blocking the sidewalk.
Vandals have made the past couple of weeks at Patrick and Vicki Dwyer’s Real Estate Sign Service an extraordinarily busy time.
Some 50 signs have been destroyed throughout the county during the past three weeks, the Dwyers report.
It appears that vandals used a bat to whack the signs, breaking them apart. Other signs that may be too difficult to destroy were ripped out of the ground.
A Seaside man was arrested in Pacific Grove in a sting operation Tuesday evening as he allegedly tried to sell a stolen cellular telephone to an undercover police officer.
Police said the phone had been stolen from Alejandro Ortiz on Saturday night while he was attending the Feast of Lanterns pageant at Lovers Point in Pacific Grove.
When I read the headline, “Man arrested in cell phone sting operation” I thought there was a big ring of stolen or hacked phone criminals. Too high tech for P.G., just another stupid bad guy named Kirby Bruno Jr. trying to extort money from an owner of a lost phone.
The ceremony honors the victims and the survivors of the atomic bombs and is a call for the end of nuclear warfare.
Messages from the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be read as lanterns are assembled and towed to sea by kayaks.
The ceremony is sponsored by Women’s’ International League for Peace & Freedom, Monterey branch.
Also picked up by The Bulletin in the Council meeting minutes:
Peggy Olsen. We would like to have an event on August 9th at Lovers Point Beach. Movement to Peace And Freedom belive that the suffering of Japanese should not be forgotten. We wish to renew the call for elimination of nuclear weapons. We have applied to Recreation Department. We asked for special consideration because we don’t have 30 days.
Peace And Freedom? Where have we heard that before?
Oh, PG’s very own former first homeboy Dan Koffman and his flag of socialism…
“One day, the Flag of Peace and Freedom will fly over all the Nations of the World!” The Flag of Peace and Freedom was designed in 1984 and the Flag of Peace Organization founded in 1988 by artist Dan Koffman.
What really is Peace & Freedom? It’s Communism hiding behind a bunch of hippies..
Check out that web page design, it looks just like David Dilworths web pages . .
Benjamin Munhall
A Pacific Grove High School student was allegedly being stalked by a 43-year-old man who called her home and parked his car outside her house.Benjamin Peter Munhall was arrested on suspicion of stalking, child annoyance and prowling Tuesday, Pacific Grove police reported.Police said the man was living out of his car.
Google Search for the name shows a few movie fansite entries. One that remains only as a google entry:”Benjamin Munhall, 36 Job: Former Pebble Beach caddie.”
Stalker and bad speller.
Also noted on KCBA TV
Monterey Hear-Old November 19, 2005
Update: Munhall pleaded guilty and has been sentenced to one year in county jail.
“I have very high personal integrity,” Bennett told the council. “What you see is what you get.
Bennett has also served on the city’s Architectural Review Board. She has worked for 24 years in her consulting business, The Cornerstone Group, which deals with nonprofit agencies.
What you see is what you get?
Line from Coast Weakly:
“Rumor has it that LISA BENNETT, who will be making a mid-term replacement of the whiny JOHN STIDHAM, can be found in the September 1979 issue of PLAYBOY.
FYI, A capture shot from a recent City Council meeting.
Pacific Grove restaurateur Anthony Favaloro, 65, entered a not guilty plea Wednesday to a misdemeanor battery charge stemming from a Nov. 24 confrontation with his mother-in-law, Marie Ferrante, at Favaloro’s Lighthouse Avenue restaurant.
Ferrante, 70, told police her son-in-law tried to strangle her.
Favaloro is scheduled for another court appearance Feb. 4.