Category Archives: Monterey Herald

5 P.G. Teens In Stolen Car, Driver Drunk, What Could Go Wrong?

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Aaron needs to never drive a car again. Bus rider for life. Parents, what ARE you teaching your kids?
DUI Sign

Five Pacific Grove teenagers were injured, three of them seriously, after the stolen car they were riding in ran off the road in Skyline Forest early Sunday morning, police reported.

The 1996 Toyota 4 Runner, driven by Aaron Corn, 18, was reported stolen out of Pacific Grove, according to Police Lt. Leslie Sonné, and alcohol is believed to have been involved in the crash.

5 P.G. Teens In Stolen Car, Driver Drunk, What Could Go Wrong?

Marijuana Sellers Making Inroads To A Pacific Grove Location?

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Fat Chance. Could be competition for the Wine Walk (with art). Or Moammar can start a new silly event to draw people to P.G., Friday Night Lite-ups.

Butterfly weed

Retired Pacific Grove Police Chief Carl Miller termed medical marijuana “snake oil.” He said the drug has been a factor in auto accidents and homicides in the city.

Pacific Grove already has “a serious drug problem in our schools,” he said, and opening a dispensary would send young people a message that marijuana use is harmless. He said it would draw customers from all over the county.

He said his experience as a police officer investigating drug use since medical marijuana was legalized showed most patient prescriptions “were self-certifications,” with doctors writing prescriptions based on patients’ demands and claims of health problems.

Marijuana Sellers Making Inroads To A Pacific Grove Location?

Tourist Trolley Funding Approved

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We are in your town, filling your inadequate sewers.

Trolley Riders

The trolley would run between Monterey Bay Aquarium and Asilomar Conference Grounds, following a route that would include Ocean View Boulevard, Sunset Drive and Point Pinos Lighthouse and would return via Lighthouse and Central avenues.

Cost of the bus service is estimated at $60,000, with the city providing $15,000 from its golf fund and $5,000 from the lighthouse fund.

Council members liked the idea but questioned how the city could measure its success.

“We’d need it to generate $3 million worth of business to recover the $60,000 cost,” said Councilman Bill Kampe.

Tourist Trolley Funding Approved

Coastal Commission OKs OBH Remodel

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Plans for a major remodeling of the former Old Bath House Restaurant in Pacific Grove have won approval from the state Coastal Commission.

The 3,775-square-foot restaurant will be operated by Ted and Cindy Walter, owner of Passionfish, also in downtown Pacific Grove.

Cindy Walter said the new restaurant will be casual fine dining and won’t have the seafood emphasis that Passionfish has.

Walter said she and her husband haven’t decided on a name for the restaurant, but it won’t be the Old Bath House.

Here’s my suggestion:
Old Bath House Wienerschnitzel

Or, we can just get Juan The Builder to work on it
Juan The Builder At OBH

Coastal Commission OKs OBH Remodel

Monterey Sues To Stop Pot Shop

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“Dave’s Not Here!”

No Pot Club

Monterey has sued the proprietor of a medical marijuana dispensary alleging that the business violated the city’s zoning codes by setting up shop in town last fall.

City officials filed the complaint against MyCaregiver Inc. and director Jhonrico Carrnshimba on Monday, after the City Council voted 4-1 in closed session Feb. 2 to authorize legal action against the clinic, which has been operating at 554 Lighthouse Ave. since November.

Also Feb. 2, the council finalized a 45-day moratorium on medical marijuana clinics, initiated under an emergency ordinance. Council member Jeff Haferman dissented.

Monterey Sues To Stop Pot Shop

Canterbury Woods Was Wrong Says P.G. Hearing Officer

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Canterbury Woods

Another fact that drives home the point I make that Pacific Grove is no longer a city of homes, but a transient rest stop. Give it up for the tourists and get ready to lose tax dollars on defending another lawsuit.

Maybe Canterbury can make some money by renting out the houses as short term stay vacation homes, recently approved by the city. How would those Spazier Avenue residents like that?

Canterbury Woods retirement community violated zoning laws by adding two houses and a duplex in its neighborhood as residential units, said a hearing officer appointed by the city of Pacific Grove.

David Spradling handed down his final decision Monday after a Jan. 7 hearing at City Hall, finding that Canterbury Woods committed four violations of city zoning ordinances by using the dwellings as residential units.

Canterbury Woods Was Wrong Says P.G. Hearing Officer

Tree Gets Death Sentence For Crime Of Being There

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Lisa “Bare” Bennett sat out on this one.

Wallcot Pine Tree

A stately and apparently healthy Monterey pine towering over a Pacific Grove house will come down, the Pacific Grove City Council ruled 5-1 Wednesday.

Residents Stephen and Michaela Braveman sought removal of the tree that stands on the city right-of-way in front of their house at 239 Walcott St. after several Monterey pines in neighboring George Washington Park toppled during a storm in October.

The 30-year-old tree was examined by two former city foresters and both pronounced it healthy but in need of trimming, said city public works director Celia Perez Martinez.

Tree Gets Death Sentence For Crime Of Being There

Stupid P.G. Criminal Caught In Act

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A Pacific Grove man was arrested on suspicion of burglary Tuesday after a neighbor spotted him climbing into a window of a residence, police said.

Pacific Grove police said they arrested Andrew Scott Middlebrook, 19, about 11:30 a.m. after he ran from the home near Gibson Avenue and Monterey Street. He was caught with stolen property a few blocks away after a short foot chase, police said.

Now look at this picture and ask why the news calls him a ‘man’.

Andrew Scott Middlebrook

That’s no man. Might be some inmates best friend though..

Stupid P.G. Criminal Caught In Act

Mayor Delivers State Of The City Message

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One sentence sums it up:

People are out of work, businesses are closed, and residents have lost their homes to foreclosures, Garcia said.

Nothing earth shattering. Carry on. Write some checks to bring tourists to P.G. and never mind there is nothing for them to do when they get here, they will be mad as heck and go to Carmel. Library cuts hours, police are short staffed, birds poop.

Mayor Delivers State Of The City Message