Pacific Grove Mayor Bill Kampe confirmed the city has reached out to the three agencies about the future of police services in his city.
“We are exploring a number of options in terms of finding ways to reduce costs for various services,” Kampe said.
Former Pacific Grove police chief Carl Miller, who retired in 2006, likened the ongoing process to a death knell for the city’s 125-year-old police department.
“The police department is going away, and no one is aware of it,” Miller said.
Every spring the seals arrive at Hopkins to have babies and signs get posted informing people to stay away. Looks like Jim Willoughby has awoke from his winter hibernation and is suddenly outraged that someone would post the signs on the railing along the rec trail.
Anyone walking along the trail early this month could not have missed the proliferation of 11 obtrusive and intimidating signs adjacent to the Hopkins Marine Station fence. Some were unusually large red inflammatory signs with a foreboding warning against entry to the coastline beyond that point.
Let’s go back to 2012 when the city erected a green lath fence in this same area, blocking the viewshed and access to the beach. For some unknown reason, the city added a white plastic fence next to the green lath fence, creating an eyesore. Since then, the green lath fence has been removed and replaced with a permanent wooden rail fence, which is now posted with warning signs.
Well, what can we expect? The rec trail is a place where many more signs can be found, some that are downright ugly or tacky. Where is the outrage Willoughby?
Signs to sucker the tourists
Signs for vandals to decorate
More signs to to sucker tourists
Graffiti unchecked
Go back to bed Jim and call when you can do something that really matters.
Tidepool Police Shocked! Shocked! That Signs Are Posted To Warn About Seal Birth Area
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The City Council on Wednesday will take its first look at a proposed ordinance that would ban retailers from giving customers single-use, carry-out plastic bags.
The proposed measure also would require retailers — after six months when the law would take effect — to charge 10 cents for recycled paper bags. The charge would go up to 25 cents after a year.
The report says the crackdown on non-reusable bags would “reduce the amount of litter generated by the use of plastic bags” and keep the city’s land and waterways cleaner.
In addition to loss of convenience and cleanliness there are reports about the increase of theft by users of reusable shopping bags –
“I think we’ve gotten to a place where it’s really going to work for the environment, businesses and the community in general,” Councilman Mike O’Brien said at the time.
But the bag ban is contributing to thousands of dollars in losses for at least one Seattle grocery store, and questions have been raised about the risk of food-borne illness from reusable bags that shoppers don’t often wash.
Mike Duke, who operates the Lake City Grocery Outlet with his wife, said that since the plastic-bag ban started last July, he’s lost at least $5,000 in produce and between $3,000 and $4,000 in frozen food.
Yah, but don’t ruffle the old guard by trying to open provocative lingerie shops or anything that may take customers away from Fandango or Grove Market.
Pacific Grove’s businesses need to be more distinctive, Mayor Bill Kampe told the city’s Chamber of Commerce on Friday.
“The hard evidence is that we are not well identified by those outside of P.G.,” he told 200 people at the chamber’s annual membership luncheon at The Inn at Spanish Bay in Pebble Beach.
He said some ideas for standing out on the Peninsula are changing the mix of businesses downtown, improving its visual appeal, getting better signs or adding public art.
Meanwhile, I’m sure there are more “distinct” art galleries and resale shops ready to move in when other art galleries and resale shops go out of business.
How low can one go?
A neighbor told police she saw a woman enter the church at 148 8th St. at 3:40 p.m. and walk out with miscellaneous items, police said. The woman got into a car with a man at the wheel, and they drove down Lighthouse Avenue toward Monterey.
The car was stopped by Monterey police near Del Monte and Figueroa avenues, police said. Food taken from the church were found in the car, police said.
Arrested were Jessica Galloway, 22, on suspicion of burglary and David Ballard, 24, charged with violating a restraining order to stay away from Galloway, police said.
Odd case. Off duty cop who claims “During the course of a year said he might date 30 to 40 women,” calls 911 claiming he was stabbed by unknown assailants.
Spitz said his investigators were unable to develop any solid leads as to the assailant Gill claimed attacked him July 31, 2012, or to establish enough evidence to convince a jury he fabricated the story.
In essence, he said, prosecutors do not know who is telling the truth.
Gill told police a Latino male stabbed him in the chest for unknown reasons when he responded to banging on his back door. Court documents said investigators believe Gill stabbed himself, was stabbed by one of many girlfriends or by one of their angry spouses.
Heroin being sold at the transit plaza in Monterey
Known as Operation Tar Block, the investigation began when undercover officers bought drugs from street-level dealers, Dias said. Those purchases, made in Monterey and Seaside, led police to alleged suppliers living in several Peninsula cities, he said.
Cody Esquivel, 27, of Seaside was arrested on suspicion of selling heroin. Timothy Murray, 41, of Marina and Castroville was arrested on gun charges and for allegedly possessing heroin and methamphetamine for sale.
Sepehr Makki, 18, of Pacific Grove and Joseph Sampognaro Jr., 24, of Monterey were arrested on a charge of offering to sell heroin.
Morgan Ferguson, 22, of Carmel was arrested on a charge of possessing heroin for sale, and Mike Sobel, 41, of Seaside was arrested and charged with possessing heroin and methamphetamine for sale.
Some of the arrests were made at the alleged dealers’ residences in Seaside, Monterey, Marina and Castroville, Dias said.
Bio article in the Hear-Old
The only thing more constant than fog in Pacific Grove is Moe Ammar.
The 56-year-old has outlasted six city managers, five police chiefs, seven mayors and dozens of other chamber executives in neighboring communities.
“I’ll stay as long as I’m wanted,” he said two weeks ago while eating at Vivolo’s Chowder House. “I want to serve this special community that has embraced me.”
Lets all embrace the stupid things Moe says
October 10, 1998 – Moe comments on the community Christmas Tree “That’s got to be the ugliest tree I’ve ever seen,”
February 4, 2008 – Moe compares the blighted transient serving P.G. of now with the former city of homes and families. “We’re about the same as we were 50 years ago,” Moe says.
April 7, 2006 Moe responds to a tasteless “get naked” weight loss ad and a nude girl on a skateboard ad in the Good Old Days tabloid. “There was nothing about it that jumped out at me at first,”
February 25, 2009 – Lighthouse Avenue closes so AT$T can film a commercial “It was the best thing that happened to P.G. this year”
July 16, 2009 – Moe praises Cal Am Water and proudly states he does not buy American cars Moe Ammar, who praised the German-owned corporation: “Cal Am has been a good neighbor, a good corporate citizen. That is why I drive a Mercedes Benz instead of a GM.”
October 29, 2009 – Moe is shocked that not everyone that visits P.G. can afford to eat at overpriced bistros. “I actually heard some tourists talking one day and they said: ‘Instead of going to Fandango, let’s grab some sandwiches at the farmers market,’”
March 11, 2010 – Moe likens coming to an agreement with the Farmers Market to a sexual experience. “We all had orgasms! It was heavenly,” P.G. Chamber of Commerce Moe Ammar jokes.
April 27, 2010 – Moe discusses anti depression through the pimping the town. “We need it in this economy so many unemployed people and with all the depression.
June 13, 2010 – Seeing a pattern? Every Moe scheme is the “greatest thing evar” Moe Ammar believes the U.S. Open will be “the greatest thing that could happen” to the local economy.
April 10, 2011 – A zoo with no animals, just a pack of hucksters. “We have top-name bands and entertainment. Look at downtown on Lighthouse. It’s a zoo.”
April 29, 2011 – Acknowledges the blight he puts up in the name of attracting tourists. “While the sign is ugly,” Ammar concedes, “it does attract people.”
February 22, 2013 – Totally unnecessary street cosmetics kill businesses – greatest thing evar! Pavels, Grove Market, PG Florist all are losing customers and Moe Ammar says “This is the best thing that’s happened since I’ve been here, period!”.
Are they still nudging people to lie on applications?
Better places can be found for $465,000
A Florida couple has filed a lawsuit alleging two local real estate professionals conspired to enlist them in a fraudulent home loan to secure a house in Pacific Grove.
Seemingly backed up with tape-recorded evidence, the couple claim loan officer Robert Walker and Realtor Deba Christensen tried to persuade them to fabricate a lease agreement and rental income on their Florida residence to qualify for a loan. When they balked, commercial pilot David Hurstfield-Meyer said, he lost more than $13,000 he had placed in deposit.
After That Whole Mortgage Crisis Thing, You’d Think Someone Would Learn
At least it’s not a Roundabout.
The project, which is being done by Nor-Cal Contractor, is supposed to be wrapped up by April 4, possibly sooner, before the city’s April 13-14 Good Old Days celebration.
Unlike many public works endeavors, the $190,000 intersection project is being paid for with a $309,000 bequest made in 2007 by Jeannette McIndoo to help beautify downtown, restore the Point Pinos Lighthouse and plant trees.
Never Mind The Potholes, Let’s Pretty Up Forest & Lighthouse