“To settle a lawsuit filed by a disabled resident, the city of Pacific Grove has agreed to spend $250,000 to remove architectural barriers and make other improvements over the next decade.
Mary Marques-Caramico sued the city and eight local businesses in 2003, saying they violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act by not providing adequate access for the disabled. Marques-Caramico has muscular dystrophy and gets around town in a motorized wheelchair.
Category Archives: Monterey Herald
Mountain Lion Sighting – Del Monte Park
Julie Rodewald was just completing her morning run Monday when, two blocks from her Pacific Grove home, she saw something she hoped to never see. Hearing a racket of crows at David Avenue and Clark Lane, she glanced to her right and saw a mountain lion just 20 feet away, headed toward her.
Julie Rodewald
Wife Shoots Husband – Del Monte Park
A Pacific Grove woman shot at her husband in front of their home Saturday, police said. Amy Huse, 29, was arrested and charged with attempted murder.
Police reported that her husband was not hit with any bullets but suffered minor injuries during the scuffle. The gun was recovered and Amy Huse is being held pending $250,000 bail
Restaurateur Favaloro Suspected Of Battery
A Pacific Grove restaurant owner was arrested on suspicion of battery following a Thanksgiving Day fracas at his business, according to police.
Police were called to Favaloro’s Italian-American Restaurant, 542 Lighthouse Ave., at 10:30 p.m. Thursday by two passers-by who told them they heard yelling coming from the restaurant and saw a man holding and choking a woman, said police Lt. Tom Uretsky.
Officers arrived and were told by a 70-year-old woman who works at the restaurant that Anthony Favaloro, 64, choked her after they argued.
Anthony Favaloro
The woman’s name was withheld because the incident is considered a case of domestic violence.
Although she refused medical attention, Uretsky said, officers noted significant redness and bruising on the woman’s neck, consistent with the complaint.
I’d think twice before complaining about the food . .
Sam The Sham Farr’s Uneducated Remark Stirs Letter Writers
In a Nov. 4 Herald article, Rep. Sam Farr, D-Carmel, stated, “I think if the rest of the country had invested in higher education like California, you would have had a more educated electorate and a California outcome in the rest of the country.” What an outrageous statement.
By the way, I hold a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and I’ll hold my education up to Farr’s any day of the week. And guess what. I voted for George Bush. Farr just insulted more than half of the voting public in the United States. What arrogance.
There are probably a number of words to describe a person with his attitude. To me, the word snob comes to mind.
Glenn Gray
Carmel
====Rep. Sam Farr’s comment, “I think if the rest of the country had invested in higher education like California, you would have had a more educated electorate and a California outcome in the rest of the country,” demonstrates just how far out of touch with reality the Democratic Party really is.
As this self-declared savant knows full well, California ranked 44th in “smartness” (see www.morganquitno.com) of the 50 states last year — that must be why the state keeps sending people like Farr back to Congress.
Andrew Allison
Carmel
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Rep. Sam Farr’s blaming President Bush’s victory on the status of the nation-wide education system is an insult to all that live in a red state. There are some pretty good universities in those states. Notre Dame, Duke, Purdue, Wake Forest, LSU and Drake come to mind.This sort of reckless, holier-than-thou statement is the exact reason the Democrats lost this past election. As long as the pretentious, liberal wing of the Democratic Party with these sorts of declarations prevails, the Democrats will continue to be defeated in nationwide elections.
Rod Dresser
Pebble Beach====
In the Nov. 4 Herald, Rep. Sam Farr is quoted as saying, “I think if the rest of the country had invested in higher education like California, you would have had a more educated electorate and a California outcome in the rest of the country.”So I guess he’s saying that most of the states in the union are populated by a bunch of illiterate idiots, unable to make informed decisions because they are so stupid.
On behalf of all my friends and family that are spread out all across the country, thank you, Mr. Farr.
Heather Flatley
Pacific Grove
Sam The Sham Farr Takes Foot Out Of Mouth
In a Nov. 4 Herald article, “Four more years met with joy, ire” I was quoted responding to a question about the difference between how California votes and how the country at large votes. My answer, possibly too flip, was however the result of my frustration over the number of people who cast a vote having been poorly informed or misled about the Bush administration’s failures and deflections, coupled with a feeling of pride about California’s higher education system and our well-informed electorate. I can understand why some readers coming across my quote misunderstood my intentions.
California also chose a Republican Governor. Put the foot back and shut the heck up.
Reaction To Sam Farr Calling U.S. Uneducated And Stupid
Robert A. Quinn writes:
Sam Farr was quoted in The Herald on Nov. 4th as saying, “I think if the rest of the country had invested in higher education like California, you would have had a more educated electorate and a California outcome in the rest of the country.”Does Farr really believe that the majority of voters in the so called “red states” are undereducated and stupid? I wonder how his colleagues on both sides of the aisle would react to such a demeaning remark.
Then again maybe his attitude is reflected in the fact that Farr carries little clout and has no real impact on any major congressional committees.
Ron Russell On Progress
Yet many of our finest homes sit as empty and lifeless as catacombs. So what is really happening to “life” here in our very animated and increasingly moribund Quaintville-by-the-Sea?
So fewer and fewer families reside here on a permanent basis. More and more empty mansions are robotically lit to deter burglars and to imitate signs of life. Gardeners come weekly — like the maids who scurry through the hotel rooms when the guests are out sightseeing — to whisk away the dust and leaves that settle around these spiritless homes. In fact, our last hometown seems to be morphing into a mega-version of a Hyatt for which a 100 percent vacancy rate would be just fine and dandy, as long as the property taxes were paid. Will we become like Lake Tahoe and Carmel where 26 percent of the homes are weekenders or sub rosa short-term rentals?
Former P.G. Teacher Accused Of Running Meth Lab
Frank Abbruzzetti
Frank Abbruzzetti, 34, was taken into custody shortly after 5:30 p.m. Friday at his home at 316 Prescott lane after an anonymous caller reported methamphetamine was being “cooked” at the residence.
Responding officers said they arrived to find Abbruzzetti smoking a meth pipe inside as they walked up to the open front door.
Two women in the house were detained for questioning and released without charge. Abbruzzetti, a graduate of Humboldt State University with a degree in chemistry, had taught at Pacific Grove Middle School and was an unemployed substitute teacher and youth recreation coach.
Fall, 2006. The house sits empty.
Dennis McCormick Supplied Teen Daughter With Alcohol
..the testimony established that the driver was on probation following a previous drunken driving conviction, that she had bragged about her partying habits and that her father, Dennis McCormick, had bought the alcohol that the girl drank that day, before and while driving.
The 17-year-old driver is charged with second-degree murder, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving under the influence, causing bodily injury while driving under the influence, vehicle theft, and driving with a suspended license.
The accused teen sat next to her lawyer, Larry Biegel, as Hardee testified about the girl’s history and the day of the accident.
Dana McCormick was later convicted of second-degree murder for drunken driving and sentenced to the California Youth Authority until she turns 25 years old.
Her father, Dennis Dewayne McCormick, 52, was sentenced in November to two consecutive one-year terms in Monterey County jail after he pleaded guilty to buying his daughter alcohol.