Category Archives: Monterey Herald

$3,000,000 To “Improve Water Quality” At Lovers Point

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Interesting. What is given up in order get bestowed with these tax dollars? No fireworks shot over the water?

Lovers Point Sewer Pipe

On Thursday, the state water board announced it had awarded the city a $3.3 million grant to fund part of a planned $4.8 million project aimed at improving a storm drain and sewer pipelines near the beach. The drain and pipelines are believed to be the source of poor water quality due to human bacteria contamination. The beach is regularly subject to public warnings and closure due to poor water quality.

$3,000,000 To “Improve Water Quality” At Lovers Point

Truck Sweeps Away Garage And Kitchen In New Monterey

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Ever hear of a brake pedal?

The truck driver told police the vehicle lost power as it was headed uphill and began rolling backward, police spokeswoman Cmdr. Leslie Sonne said.

She said it went about 300 feet, including through the intersection at Fillmore Street, before ripping into the garage and part of the kitchen of the damaged home.

Truck Sweeps Away Garage And Kitchen In New Monterey

Dumb Criminals File – Raymond Gutosky

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At least he did not call his lost cell phone in hopes of getting it back like Sean Conners

A Pacific Grove man stabbed by a homeowner who interrupted him during a burglary will be sentenced to 34 years and eight months in prison, prosecutors said Monday.

Raymond Gutosky, 57, pleaded guilty on Friday to burglary charges after having two previous burglary convictions in Los Angeles, officials said.

Around 9 a.m. on July 11, 2013, Gutosky entered a home after he watched the homeowner and his wife drive away.

The owner returned about 10 minutes later and found Gutosky stealing his wife’s jewelry. Armed with a knife, the owner ordered Gutosky to stay until police arrived.

But Gutosky fought back and was “pummeling” his victim, prosecutors said, until the owner stabbed Gutosky, severely wounding him.

Gutosky stumbled outside, got into a car and drove away, leaving behind his cell phone, which he likely lost during the struggle, officials said.

Dumb Criminals File – Raymond Gutosky

Sea Breeze Motel Expansion Approved

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Hope they can expand their dumpster capacity to match.

Sea-Breeze Motel, 2008

Dumpster Sea Breeze Motel 071216

The council, at its Wednesday meeting, rejected an appeal filed against the Sea Breeze Lodge expansion after it had been approved on a divided Planning Commission vote in March.

Appellants Roxanne and Adiba Mahroom contended the proposed addition of six units, on top of three approved in 2002 but never built, should have been reviewed under the state Environmental Quality Act. They also argued the city wrongfully approved water for the project before it was considered by the Planning Commission.

City planners said the addition to the 30-unit Lighthouse Avenue motel was a minor project exempt from the Environmental Quality Act.

Sea Breeze Motel Expansion Approved

Pet Hoarder Discovered On Fountain Ave

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The animals will get first rate care, what about the people living in the house?

A small historic home in Pacific Grove was declared uninhabitable Wednesday after authorities found it crammed with dogs and cats in “shocking” conditions, the SPCA for Monterey County said.

The house was cluttered with piles of clothing, trash and garage, along with feces and urine, the SPCA said.

There were 18 dogs, including four small puppies, locked in three small back rooms. The stench of ammonia from urine was so strong that fire officials recommended that animal rescuers use protective gear.

Two cats were also taken from the home in the 400 block of Fountain Avenue.

Pet Hoarder Discovered On Fountain Ave

Cigarettes Can Be Hazardous To Your Freedom

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Butts In Flower PotHow soon before the butts left on the street will be traced back to the careless fools that drop them?

The smoke break by the burglar came back to haunt a Pacific Grove man this week. He was convicted in Monterey County Superior Court of first-degree burglary and now faces a possible seven-year prison sentence.

“Smoking — it’s kind of bad for your health,” said Deputy District Attorney Sam Nong on Thursday.

Nong prosecuted Daniel Edward Jeske, 33, of Pacific Grove from the March 20, 2012, break-in.

He said police forwarded the cigarette butt to the state DNA database — which includes about 1 million samples collected from felons and persons arrested on a felony charge.

Cigarettes Can Be Hazardous To Your Freedom

Something Went Wrong

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4 people rob a person at their house and steal their car. Not sure of the circumstances.

Police arrested two suspects and were still searching for a third in connection with a an incident Friday that began with an armed robbery in Monterey and included a four-hour standoff in Salinas.

Police were summoned at 4 p.m. to an address in New Monterey, where a homeowner had been robbed at gunpoint. The suspects fled with the victim’s van, police said.

The stolen vehicle was spotted a short time later in Marina, where a female driver was arrested.

A second suspect was located and arrested outside a house on Lupine Drive, and police surrounded the residence, believing the third suspect was inside.

A four-hour standoff ended when SWAT teams from Monterey and Salinas rammed through the front door and tear-gassed the home. They did not find the suspect.

Something Went Wrong

If Dead Rock Stars Get Plaques So Should Dead Computer Pioneers

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About time, eh? Refer to the 2009 article What If Digital Research Had Won IBM’s Love? and another from 2007: Tech Tour Of Pacific Grove.

Digital Research 801Lighthouse

Digital Research Plaque

Gary Kildall, the pioneer digital visionary whose development of the microcomputer operating system in 1974 led to the personal computer, was honored Friday in Pacific Grove, the town where he had lived and worked.

Kildall, who died in 1994, was called “Father of the interconnected universe” at the commemorative event, held at Pacific Grove City Hall

Digital Research CP/M

Good credit where credit is due, but one is left hanging to know what happend to Digital Research. Trip over to The Six Serendipities of Microsoft and read about how close DR came to being the DOS that shipped with every new IBM PC and becoming big as or bigger than Microsoft.

The IBM design team knew immediately which operating system it wanted …They wanted CP/M, a product of .. Digital Research, of Pacific Grove, California. But when IBM first approached Digital Research, the company’s founder Gary Kildall was out of the office for the day. In his absence, Kildall’s wife and business associates were reluctant to sign the stringent IBM nondisclosure agreement…

If Dead Rock Stars Get Plaques So Should Dead Computer Pioneers

Mayor Kampe Has Surgery

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Heart? Might have been better to fix the bypass in his head.

Kampe Xray

Pacific Grove Mayor Bill Kampe is recuperating after undergoing heart-bypass surgery this week and likely will be away from city duties for a few weeks.

“I would say at least three weeks,” said Mayor Pro Tempore Robert Huitt on Friday. He will chair the City Council in Kampe’s absence.

The surgery was done Tuesday. It wasn’t triggered by any symptoms the mayor had been experiencing, but by things that came up during a routine exam, he said.

“All indications was that it was successful, and his recovery is going to be great,” Huitt said.

Mayor Kampe Has Surgery

Jacob Miller Pleads No Contest To Possession Charges

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Son of sheriff and former P.G. police chief.

Jacob Miller pleaded no contest Tuesday in Monterey County Superior Court to possession of stolen property and possession of methadone related to an alleged theft at Asilomar Conference Grounds.

Chapman said the DA agreed to drop a separate weapons charge.

Miller will likely receive probation — which can mean up to a year in jail — and be required to do a minimum six-month drug treatment program.

Jacob Miller was sentenced in February 2012 to three years probation and 90 days in jail for possession of methamphetamine for sale. At the time, he completed a rehabilitation program at Genesis House and was living in a sober-living home.

Jacob Miller Pleads No Contest To Possession Charges