No rest for late sleepers along the coast both days this weekend.
Saturday’s races will include the Olympic Distance Triathlon, starting at 7:15 a.m.; the Junior Elite race at 11:45 a.m., and the California Elite Series Triathlon at noon.
Sunday the Sprint Distance Triathlon starts at 7:15 a.m. Both days will feature a health fitness expo.
Man unhappy with a neighbor’s cactus? Not getting any response from the police like Richmond Woodson does, he takes it a step further.
A Monterey man who was unhappy with a neighbor’s landscaping is facing a felony charge for allegedly threatening violence against Monterey City Manager Fred Meurer and another city employee.
David White, 57, called the city Planning Department Aug. 28 complaining about a cactus a neighbor had planted, said Monterey police Lt. Leslie Sonné.
(This representation of cactus is not the one in the story)
Monterey Man Outdoes Richmond Woodson With Threats To City Hall
Judge Russell Scott set a Dec. 7 trial date for Thomas Pollacci, saying he wanted to finish the trial before the end of the year. Prosecutor Cristina Johnson and defense attorney Andy Liu estimated it would last three weeks.
Pollacci, 50, was arrested March 3 for allegedly raping a woman on April 20, 2008, at his family’s Pacific Grove business, Ron’s Liquors. Prosecutors say the woman was unconscious and suffering from an inflicted traumatic brain injury at the time.
Remember, please do not spend your money at Pacific Grove businesses that employ sex offenders or domestic abusers.
Teachers Union no doubt will be asking for a raise to monitor signs of flu symptoms.
The student became sick over the weekend and the doctor faxed the school Wednesday the confirmation of a Type A influenza diagnosis. Type A influenza can be caused by different viruses, but in recent months most cases have been traced to the H1N1 virus.
Administrators at Pacific Grove Unified School District are reviewing precautions normally taken during the flu season with an increased level of awareness, said Cindy Gallo, director of student services. But despite apparent heightened concerns, only two people contacted her after she put out a statement announcing the possible case of swine flu.
Cort declared he would resign early last month after activist David Dilworth and former Councilman Terrance Zito threatened a recall campaign against him if he didn’t resign immediately. Cort said at the time that the threat wasn’t his reason for leaving office.
Dilworth declined to comment on Cort’s resignation or recall plans, and Zito was unavailable.
The appointment of the city manager, which began after previous manager Jim Colangelo resigned in January — is still unresolved.
Now can the town somehow get some leadership? Leadership that has no kooky sustainable agendas, no personal gains, nothing but serious plans to serve the city’s residents first?
Four of the arrested juveniles have been charged with misdemeanor battery and fighting in public. The fifth, a teen girl, faces a charge of felony assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly hitting another girl in the face with a full beer can. The victim needed stitches. The altercation between the girls happened while they were waiting for an organized fight to begin, Nyunt said.
Another recent fight, which was not one of the organized skirmishes, left one of the combatants with a cracked spine, which was nonparalyzing, and a broken hand, police said.
The investigated fights, including one that was video-recorded and put on YouTube, have taken place at Arnett Park, George Washington Park and Pacific Grove High’s parking lot.
Kids getting bored in P.G., or did one’s wind chime irritate another?
Are we really getting the best for our money paid to the P.G.P.D?
Remember that police commander John Nyunt dismissing fears of gangs living in P.G. saying they just wanted to get away from places like Salinas and Watsonville to have a safer place to live & work? Didn’t mention that ‘work’ to them means stealing people’s stuff.
Cmdr. John Nyunt said there have been 123 thefts and break-ins reported so far this year — about 30 since June.
Last year, from January to August, there were 76 reported thefts and burglaries, he said. Nyunt said officers are doing all they can to keep up, but the department’s staffing level is down.
But they have enough staff to ticket people for having a wind chime .
When you have a so called artist living across the street.
“It’s a shock,” Phil Allen said. “I’ll certainly fight this. With all the things the courts have to worry about today, I wouldn’t think this would even be worth mentioning.”
But Richmond Woodson, who lives across the street from the offending chime, said the constant ringing is like living across the street from an ice cream truck. Woodson, a 54-year-old art teacher who has lived in his house since 2000, signed a complaint about the noise, which forced police to cite the Allens.
Weeks later, about 4 a.m., Woodson decided he was fed up with the wind chime. He walked across the street and taped the chimes together.
“I apologized for the tape,” Woodson said.
Woodson admits to trespass and vandalism. Should be arrested for same. Kook also admits to patrolling the block to find other noises and turning them in.
This is not ‘the’ wind chime from the article
Just like poachers after abalone, them signs pry right off.
“We don’t know,” Adams said about the thieves “if they are collectors or malicious vandals.”
The Business Improvement District, in partnership with the city, the Cannery Row Business Association, Monterey Bay Aquarium and InterContinental The Clement Monterey hotel, has put up informational plaques, murals and ceramic recreations of the row’s cannery labels of fish that were important to Monterey Bay’s seafood industry. A series of banners depicts historic row figures and selected quotes from Steinbeck’s works.
The Clement hotel built a walkway that gives pedestrians free access to the ocean side of the hotel and the rear of the Pacific Biological Laboratory, where Ed Ricketts plied his trade as a collector of marine specimens. Tiles showing each of the canneries’ labels have been placed in sidewalks where the canneries once operated.
Ask for more taxes!!
Wonder if they have a backup plan?
A campaign committee in favor of Measure J, a parcel tax to support the Pacific Grove Public Library, was formed late Wednesday after a meeting at the Pacific Grove First United Methodist Church.
Measure J, which would levy a flat $96 tax on each parcel and $75 for each unit of a multi-family residential building, is expected to raise an estimated $630,000 annually from the city’s 6,000 parcels plus apartment units, said city Management and Budget Director Jim Becklenberg.
That alone wouldn’t be enough for 40 hours a week, Headly said.
Think that this added tax will benefit the library only? Wrong. The city will be able to draw money away from the library to fund other things. Say forinstance, sustainable seagull repellent for the roof of city hall.
Monterey Hear-Old, 8/25
“It is a way to set the library up with a base outside of the city’s general fund,” Becklenberg said.
Passage of the measure, he said, could secure the future of the library and provide general fund savings of approximately $400,000 toward the $2 million city budget deficit, since Measure J funding would allow the city to use its regular library budget for other purposes until the budget can be balanced.