Category Archives: Monterey Herald

Searles Art Supplies Paints A Picture Of Closed

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Held on in tough times for 5 years. Was the foolish MST project a contributor to the final straw?

Searls

The nail in the coffin for Searle, he said, was the construction of Monterey-Salinas Transit’s JAZZ line bus stops last year. He said snarled traffic kept customers away.

MST general manager Carl Sedoryk said Monday afternoon they never heard from Wiseman during construction and noted Searle has its own parking lot and no construction took place in front of it.

He did say, however, that traffic was likely backed up in front of Wiseman’s store.

“I’m sorry to see such a long-standing member of the retail community has not been able to make it,” Sedoryk said. “I’m not certain what role though our project, if any, really had on that decision.”

Sedoryk said no claims against the transit district had been filed by Lighthouse Avenue businesses.

Searles Art Supplies Paints A Picture Of Closed

Substainable Shopping Bags Used In Crime

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Thought it was another shoplifting story? Naw, over in Eco Loving Santa Cruz they are used to cover robbers’ head’s.

Stephen Hill, 26, was arrested by deputies on Wednesday outside Walgreens on Soquel Avenue.

Deputies responded to a report of a robbery at the pharmacy at 8:08 a.m. The suspect was said to be wearing a white bag over his head, a white sweatshirt and jeans. He fled on a skateboard.

Hill, dressed in clothing that matched the suspect and wearing latex gloves, was stopped by deputies. He had a skateboard, 27 bottles of methadone and a bottle of morphine, deputies said.

Hill had a white canvas grocery bag with two holes poked in it.

Substainable Shopping Bags Used In Crime

Monterey Herald Cuts More Jobs, Selling Assets

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Too bad it’s been left to disintegrate into this. Wonder if they could have used the hardware and location to support other print jobs.

A month of Hear-Old home delivery costs more than a DSL Internet line. If you need paper to soak up grease there is always the the Cedar Street Times.

Herald Hear-old

The Monterey County Herald announced Thursday it plans to sell its building at 8 Upper Ragsdale Drive in Monterey and move print operations to a Bay Area commercial printer.

“There is an industry-wide effort to relocate newspaper operations into facilities that better suit our needs, and this is part of our ongoing digital strategy,” said Herald Publisher Gary Omernick. “In 1988, The Herald moved operations from downtown Monterey to Ryan Ranch in Monterey. Our industry has changed since then and now we find ourselves in an oversized facility.”

Stupid Logic – Liberry Manager Position Tough To Fill, So . . .

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Let’s rename the job “Liberry DIRECTOR” and offer more money(that we don’t have enough of) and ask them to fix the computers too. Maybe then the city can attract some young come-here to take the job and commute from Salinas. Then the newcomer will become depressed and leave, likened to the OG PG Cops.

I’d try renaming the job “Senior Liberrian” and offer more $$ to an existing employee.
I feel that to be a Director one would have more than a single dead-tree lending branch to direct, not fix the computers while your at it.

Library Book Drop

In the past six months, the city has twice tried to recruit applicants for the permanent position of a library manager at the annual pay range of $66,564 to $80,904. Those efforts haven’t turned up many qualified applicants.

That prompted leaders of three groups — the Library Advisory Board, Foundation for the Pacific Grove Library and the Friends of the Pacific Grove Library — to ask the City Council this week to put some more polish on the job title and salary.

In a letter to the council, the groups said people who run public libraries are generally called library directors, and the 2010 national mean salary for library directors was $100,106.

Stupid Logic – Liberry Manager Position Tough To Fill, So . . .

Fatal Accident Driver’s Blood Test “not inconsistent with the charges.”

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Plus gleening evidence from computers in both cars.

Chief Assistant District Attorney Terry Spitz said prosecutor Ed Hazel was expected to file charges on Friday or early next week against Pacific Grove builder Stuart Elder, who was arrested on charges of vehiclular manslaughter while under the influence.

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Elder’s attorney, Paul Nathan Puri, said Elder “flatly denies he was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident.”

But Spitz said Thursday that Elder’s final blood toxicology reports are “not inconsistent with the charges.”

Fatal Accident Driver’s Blood Test “not inconsistent with the charges.”

Felony DUI Aaron Corn Granted Appeal

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The media talks about Chelsie all the time, but it was reported that 4 others were injured, Corn took the car without permission AND was on probation. Stay in jail, boy.

Dui Handicap

A Pacific Grove man who paralyzed a friend in a drunken-driving accident will get another chance to get out of prison.

The 6th District Court of Appeals this week reversed the seven-year prison sentence of Aaron Corn and remanded him for a new sentencing hearing before Judge Russell Scott.

The three-judge panel unanimously concurred with Corn that Scott wrongly concluded the then-18-year-old was ineligible for probation after paralyzing Chelsie Hill. In a unanimous ruling written by Justice Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian, the panel voiced no opinion about what Corn’s new sentence should be, only that probation should be on the table.

Felony DUI Aaron Corn Granted Appeal

Fruit Cheese Says The Budget Is Breaking Even

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In his budget message, City Manager Thomas Frutchey said Pacific Grove is in better shape than “numerous other cities” spending down their general funds to pay for basic services. The city will have $4.5 million in reserves as of June 30, up from $800,000 five years ago, he said.

A proposal to add $50,000 to the budget to improve the intersection at Central and Eardley avenues brought pleas from two Monterey Bay Aquarium employees to make the intersection safer for pedestrians.

I offer an affordable solution – make the pedestrians cross at David instead of Eardley. If the ever expanding Fish Jail management team that is converting retail buildings across Central into offices wants a controlled intersection they should foot the bill.

Fruit Cheese Says The Budget Is Breaking Even

Gun Buyback Weapons Are Being Data Mined

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Turn In Your Weapons

Hope that the gun you gave up was not used in a crime, they know where it came from.

The firearms will eventually be test fired to record ballistics details.

Though there is no evidence that buybacks reduce violent crime, that’s not the only goal of the events, Myers said.

“They increase community and public awareness and gun safety,” she said. “They remove the availability of weapons … for potential accidental shootings and thefts or (from) those with mental health problems.”

Gun Buyback Weapons Are Being Data Mined

Ex Tree Posse Turned Seal Posse Responds To Losin’ Susan

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P.G. Newcomer Akeman has a new calling against humans – watching seals and blocking access to the beach.

Acheman Book

I may not know all the definitions of vigilante, but I believe Susan Goldbeck used the term erroneously in a guest commentary in Thursday’s Herald. She was concerned about efforts to protect harbor seals and the babies they have each spring on Pacific Grove beaches.

The city applied its policy this month when the first baby seal in known history was born at Lovers Point. After mom and pup were spotted on Sunday morning, city police asked Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary’s Bay Net docents to provide a human presence at Lovers Point. Public Works brought barricades and yellow tape; the Marine Mammal Center brought signs.

Ex Tree Posse Turned Seal Posse Responds To Losin’ Susan

Humans Or Seals, Who Is Allowed To Block Access To The Beach?

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The opposition is watching Losin’ Susan move the Seal Posse’s signs . .

It is curious the city of Pacific Grove, which appears to have a back door role in all this controversy, must have had a decided change of heart regarding marine mammals.

The city’s solution to keeping all marine mammals off Lovers Point Beach just a few years ago was to bang pots and pans to frighten them away. Now it seems we need to keep the public off the beaches if so much as one mother and pup venture into those areas.

Even Lovers Point Beach was recently closed after one mama seal appeared on the beach with her pup. It was mighty cute, yes, but the public was denied access to the beach and beach-related businesses were adversely affected.

Humans Or Seals, Who Is Allowed To Block Access To The Beach?