Category Archives: Monterey Herald

Cops File Charges Against Council

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Cops on break
PG Cops On Break

The Pacific Grove Police Officers Association filed a charge with the state Public Employment Relations Board in Sacramento that the Pacific Grove City Council violated state labor laws by enacting an ordinance that would limit the city’s contribution to retirement benefits.

The measure, initially proposed by residents for the Nov. 2 ballot, caps city contributions to employee pension benefits at 10 percent of workers’ salaries. Employees could pay additional amounts toward their retirement out of their own pocket.

Cops File Charges Against Council

Final Foxtrot, Dance Studio Shuts Down

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Located above Pollaci’s liquor store.

It’s the last dance for Ingrid Tower and Shall We Dance, yet Tower is confronting the studio’s closure with the same grace her dancers have displayed for the past four years. There are no regrets, questions of ‘what if,’ and no finger-pointing. The simple truth is that post-recession, Tower’s studio could not sustain itself financially.

Final Foxtrot, Dance Studio Shuts Down

It’s Not Global Warming, Climate Change, Pollution, Fishermen or G.W. Bush Killing Otters

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Hungry Alien Sharks

Nature did.

The shark-bite attacks on otters are essentially “taste tests” made while hunting, Harris said.

“This would explain why the majority of the otters collected have a single bite mark,” he said. “These bites are more investigative.”

After a shark realizes an otter won’t make a good meal, they let go and move on, Harris said.

Shark attacks on otters are part of nature, Harris said, but they concern researchers who want to preserve healthy populations.

“It becomes complicated,” he said. “They are both protected species.”

It’s Not Global Warming, Climate Change, Pollution, Fishermen or G.W. Bush Killing Otters

City Council Cozies Up With PG$E On Smartmeters

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Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s SmartMeters are a fundamental part of building a smart power grid that will increase energy efficiency, improve service and cut costs, a spokesman for the utility told the Pacific Grove City Council on Wednesday.

The SmartMeter itself isn’t new, PG&E spokesman Andrew Tang said. It dates from the 1980s. What is new is the radio net that will report power usage.

Big Brother watching you. Bankrupt PG&E not willing to improve the energy delivery system but will instead automate it’s power grid to charge you more when the opportunity arises.

Not to mention put meter readers out of a job.

City Council In Bed With PG$E On Smartmeters

PG&E admits to flaws in some smart meters

Botched Smart Meter Roll Outs Provoking Consumer Backlash

City Council Candidates In Lock Step On Issues

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Same old blah blah blah. More taxes, change the tree policy, high cost desalinization, more development.

As the date comes near, I’ll be asking some tougher questions such as where they stand on the chicken control issue.

Four candidates for three four-year terms on the Pacific Grove City Council showed few areas of disagreement at a forum Tuesday at Chautauqua Hall that drew an audience of 50.

Incumbent Councilmen Ken Cuneo and Alan Cohen, and challengers Rudolph Fischer and Richard Ahart Jr., who will face off in the Nov.2 municipal election, answered written questions submitted by the audience on a number of city issues.

City Council Candidates In Lock Step On Issues

Fire Breaks Out At Plaza Hotel On Cannery Row

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Fire damage minimal, but several floors below got everything soaked by the sprinkler systems.
Monterey Plaza Hotel

With the Cannery Row hotel filled to capacity, the Cherry’s Jubilee car show in full swing for the weekend, and a beer fest under way on the hotel’s lower terrace, a fire started in the penthouse of the westernmost building of the hotel complex about 3:21 p.m., and forced the evacuation.

According to Monterey Fire Capt. Barry Perkins, who arrived first on the scene, the fire started in a flue in the mechanical room on the five-story building’s penthouse level.

Who remembers the real fires in old cannery buildings?


Fire Breaks Out At Plaza Hotel On Cannery Row

Pacific Grove Triathlon Ignores Health Department Warnings

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Enjoy the polluted ocean, Pacific Grove triathletes. Recent rain has washed more raccoon poop into the ocean. Please wash your hands before touching anything in town.

Cal Triathlon in Berkeley, sponsor of the event, noted that a swim clinic at Lovers Point was held Thursday and that the most recent water tests showed safe levels of bacteria.

Triathlon planners have said they intend to go ahead with events as planned. Planners told participants that they must make their own decision about swimming in the bay and that Cal Triathlon would not refund entry fees to those who choose not to swim in the event.

Sept Beach Pollutiuon

Pacific Grove Triathlon Ignores Health Department Warnings

P.G. Says No To Pot Sales

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Though they bow down to liquor stores.

Residential Care Facilities, eh? Maybe Canturbury Woods can use the homes on Spazier to grow pot now that people are not allowed to live there.

A Pot Hicary

The ordinance, prepared at the council’s direction by City Attorney David Laredo, prohibits “growing, selling, distributing or operating marijuana dispensaries” medical or otherwise.

There are exclusions, Laredo said, for health care, residential care or hospice facilities to provide marijuana to patients who hold doctors’ prescriptions for cannabis, and residents can grow plants “in strict compliance with the (state) compassionate use act.”

P.G. Says No To Pot