Category Archives: Monterey Herald

Local Pot Pusher Has A Felony Arrest Record?

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A Pot Hicary

The owner is trying to win approval by helping to craft laws to allow marijuana sales. Seems that he needs to try and learn a few laws in existence.

If a pot store opens in P.G., lets find another seller. We don’t need another felon with a business do we?

Maniscalco, 26, is due in court at 9:15 a.m. Friday in Salinas for a preliminary hearing on a felony count of possessing and transporting marijuana for sale, stemming from an arrest in December by Monterey police for allegedly sending or receiving marijuana via UPS.

Maniscalco had proposed opening a medical marijuana dispensary in Sand City in September and one at 115 Central Ave. in Pacific Grove in February.

Local Pot Pusher Has A Felony Arrest Record?

Feast Of Lanterns Fate Is Sealed (hint: it’s 90% canceled)

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Destiny being fulfilled. Bankrupt the events that are the heart & soul of what’s fun about P.G. then turn it into some preachy politically correct show that no one really wants to go to. Finally bring it back all sanitized. About as genuine as a Victorian retreat house torn down, re-constructed with zero original material and awarded a historical artifact sign.

Empty FOL beach

But hey, without the cost of putting on the week long summer festival, we can pay for a new website, city slogan and a tourist trolley, right?

There will still be a Queen Topaz and her court, but no fireworks. The pageant will take place in the middle school auditorium, not at the Lovers Point Pier. The festival will run two days, rather than a full week.

“Some events are being dropped,” said Feast of Lanterns president Sue Renz, “and others restructured.”

Feast Of Lanterns Fate Is Sealed (hint: it’s 90% canceled)

Now That All Problems In P.G. Are Solved, Lets Rewrite All The Laws

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Old law about minorities not allowed to own property within the city. What strikes me is in the light of the pot club trying to open in P.G. is what other laws are being changed in the name of cleansing the town and re-writing history?

Such clauses can’t be enforced by law, but Councilwoman Lisa Bennett proposes that she and her colleagues send a letter to the Monterey County recorder asking that fees to delete such clauses entirely from deeds be waived.

Now That All Problems In P.G. Are Solved, Lets Rewrite All The Laws

New Monterey Marijuana Store Ordered To Close

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“Hemp! Why do you think they call it rope?” Snick Farkas

No Pot Club

A Monterey medical marijuana dispensary has been ordered by the court to close immediately, city officials said Friday.

Superior Court Judge Robert O’Farrell issued a preliminary injunction in favor of the city, requiring MyCaregiver Inc. at 554 Lighthouse Ave. to shut down, said Assistant Monterey City Attorney Christine Davi.

New Monterey Marijuana Store Ordered To Close

Our Taxes At Work, $$ For House Flipping

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Tough to imagine that there are still any unmolested homes in the retreat area that have not been torn down and replaced by re-creations by the likes of Juan The Builder.

Pacific Grove residents living in the town’s aging Victorian and Edwardian treasures who can’t afford to fix leaking plumbing, sparking electric wires and termite damage can get help from City Hall.

Pacific Grove has received federal Community Development Block Grant and state home improvement grant funding that it can draw from to help homeowners who qualify, said Laurel O’Halloran, housing program assistant for the city.

“We have some money to spend,” she said, and it must be used up during the next 18 months.

Juan the Builder’s Victorian House Flipping Before:
Juan The Builder Remodel

After:
Juan The Builder Sunk It

Our Taxes At Work, $$ For House Flipping

Richard Coleman Murder Case Reopens

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Cops to use modern forensics – finally.

Richard Coleman

New technology incorporated in the national forensic database has given renewed hope to Pacific Grove police that they will finally close the murder case.

“We have not forgotten about this,” Police Chief Darius Engles said. “It’s an active and open case.”

He (said investigators collected sufficient evidence, so new forensic techniques for identifying palm prints and DNA will catch up with the killer.

That evidence, he said, was submitted in July to the national DNA database. The process takes months, Engles said, but police expect results.

Richard Coleman Murder Case Reopens

Olga Ospina Gets $87,000 For Dead Dog

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After turning down a settlement of $40,000 she finds that twice that amount is sufficient. But she still does not get what she originally wanted, to kill the other dog. Lighthouseavenue.com post, 11/9/07:

But Olga Ospina wanted a different result. “Please help me, put this dog down” she said at the hearing Aug. 16.

Olga Ospina

A Superior Court jury awarded $87,000 Tuesday to local television anchorwoman Olga Ospina, whose dog was fatally mauled in a Pacific Grove attack three years ago.

Ospina testified the incident was emotionally draining. In 2007, the city determined the Labrador was not vicious and required the dog to undergo behavioral training.

Olga Ospina Gets $87,000 For Dead Dog

Racists Burned Down Chinatown, Celebrate Every Year

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“Historian” says Feast Of Lanterns being multicultural is egg-foo-young in the face. Feast of Lanterns does an about face and plays down the whole multicultural thing.

They fished for squid using lighted boats on moonless nights, Lydon said. The lights of the boats on the bay were a tourist attraction, “like Christmas decorations on the ocean.”

Those lighted boats may well have inspired Pacific Grove’s annual Feast of Lanterns at Lovers Point, where an ersatz Chinese pageant is re-enacted.

Racists Burned Down Chinatown, Celebrate Every Year

Aaron Corn Faces DUI Charges In Accident That Injured 5

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Hear-old fails to mention that persons under 21 are considered impaired with any blood-alcohol level.

Police are seeking the driver, Aaron Corn, 18, of Pacific Grove, to be charged with driving under the influence and driving under the influence resulting in injury while having a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 percent or more. People over the age of 21 are considered impaired with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 or more.

Aaron Corn Faces DUI Charges In Accident That Injured 5

Scott Miller Makes Good Copy

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The Hear-Old article tries to catch Miller up with the other two Sheriff candidates’ tabloid fodder.

Southpark raccoons

While serving as Pacific Grove’s police chief, he says he refused to bow to pressure from City Council members who wanted friends promoted and traffic tickets forgiven, and that he did the right thing in firing parking enforcement officer Rhonda Ramey, whom he suspected of wrongfully ticketing cars so she could obtain title to them.

Scott Miller Makes Good Copy