Category Archives: Monterey Herald

City Suing Aliottis

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Are all Aliottis this dishonest?

The city of Monterey is suing a local couple for allegedly trying to make a big profit on their subsidized affordable housing.

According to the lawsuit, Gaspare and Rose Ann Aliotti lied to the city and rented out the Yerba Buena Court condominium they purchased in 1985 so they could wait out deed restrictions and sell it at market rates.

Gaspare Aliotti referred questions to his wife. Rose Ann Aliotti referred inquiries to her attorney, whom she declined to identify, saying she’d deliver a message. No one responded.

City Suing Aliottis

Nader Agha Breaks Promise To Give Up

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Just when you thought Nader Agha would take his phony antiques, coins and sell the Holman Building he comes back again with another hotel pitch.

Armed with architects’ drawings of concepts for the property, Agha said he has reconsidered his idea of abandoning the project in the face of overwhelming support expressed to him for the project.

In December, Agha listed the 84-year-old, 120,000-square-foot Holman Building and the 1.35-acre lot it sits on, as well as four other lots on Fountain Avenue being used for parking and a building across the street at 549 Lighthouse Ave., on the real estate market.

At the time he said he was fed up with nearly 14 years of delays in his attempt to build a luxury hotel on the site.

Holman Hotel

Hundreds more showerheads, flushing toilets, traffic and tourists.
How About No Bear

Nader Agha Breaks Promise To Give Up

BK? Maybe If We Ignore It . .

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Let’s talk about out elite socialistic agenda disguised as sustainability instead, people will think it’s environmental and cute..

It’s the elephant in the room and a potential “hand grenade” that could blast apart Pacific Grove’s chances of recruiting employees, selling municipal bonds or closing contracts with vendors.

That was the message from Mayor Dan Cort about bankruptcy — otherwise known as “the B-word” — in Butterfly Town, U.S.A.

It has been lurking on the fiscal horizon as Pacific Grove struggles with falling revenues and increasing costs, exacerbated by the city’s liability under the California Public Employment Retirement System.

On Wednesday, the City Council agreed to take talk of bankruptcy off the table while discussing how to balance next year’s and future budgets.

Create a disaster, bail it out, take it over.
Sustainable Elelephant

BK? Maybe If We Ignore It . .

Just When You Think . .

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. . that the Hear-Old can’t get enough Letters From The Editor making P.G. look like a majority of Sustainable Vegetarian Eco-freaks . . .

 

Vegetarians Eat Free

In his quest to clamp down on fossil fuel companies and the auto giants, Gore shamelessly avoids talking about something we all could and should do something about as individuals: Eat less or no meat.

Bob Lucius
Pacific Grove

A more sensible citizen replies with a letter

Hmmmm? Remaining unconvinced by this vast generalization I commenced to grilling up a second tasty burger, still quite guilt-free, and was amusingly reminded of a bumper sticker I’d recently seen in Taos, N.M. : “Eating red meat isn’t bad for you. Eating fuzzy, green meat is.”

How true! Bon appetit.

Robb Thomas Karman
Pacific Grove

Thanks, Robb!

Just When You Think . .

Sexology Experts Come To P.G.

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Downtown was very busy last night. Most people were smiling.

“We won’t be doing what some people probably think sexologists do when we get together: There won’t be any crazy orgies or anything like that,” said Monterey’s Stephen Braveman, a certified diplomat of sex therapy and co-chairman of the four-day event. “I’m told that plumbers, lawyers and politicians have much more fun at their conferences.”

Sexology Experts Come To P.G.

Pebble Beach Pink Slip Toll At 76

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Pink Slip

The Pebble Beach Co. announced Wednesday it is laying off 47 employees, including 14 management employees. The company had eliminated 29 jobs in November, including 24 management positions.

In a prepared statement, company Chief Executive Officer Bill Perocchi cited the economic recession as the reason for the company’s reorganization. He said the drop in business is a trend that operators of luxury resorts nationwide are contending with.

Pebble Beach Pink Slip Toll At 76

Sadness

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David And Bunky

My uncle & me.

September 28, 1946 ~ May 2, 2009
SEASIDE – “Bunky” Earl Eckstine Jr., 62, passed away May 2, 2009 from a lengthy illness.

Bunky was a life-long resident of Seaside. He joined the U.S. Marines, serving in the Vietnam War, and was awarded two purple hearts and the Medal of Honor.

He was known for custom car painting, and owned Bunky’s Paint & Body Shop. He was the president of the Slow Pokes, who organized the Karkapades Car Show. He enjoyed riding his Harley, and photography.
He is survived by his wife, Beverly; two daughters, Tracy and Cindy; son, Bunky; and five grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Lil Bev, and his mother and father.

A military honors ceremony will be on Friday, May 15, 2009 at 12:00 p.m. at Mission Memorial Park, Seaside.

A Celebration of Bunky’s Life will be on Saturday, May 16, 2009, 3:00 p.m. at American Legion, Seaside.

Sadness

Ron Russell Vs. Property Rights

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This isn’t Del Rey Oaks or (shudders) Carmel. As long as it is safe, my RV, woodpile or ‘forest’ landscaping is my business..

 

The folks involved in the beautification hubbub in Pacific Grove are barking up the wrong tree.

I concede the expensive homes around the golf course and many homes around the middle school are well cared for, but walk along the streets that intersect Pine or Lighthouse avenues, or go into the Del Monte Park area. Walk along the sidewalks and see how often you are forced into the street because of branches, bushes, ivy or broken fences. You can’t even get many of these free-spirited, iconoclastic, willy-nilly residents to park legally.

Aren’t the homes near the middle school owned by Canterbury Woods?

Ron Russell Vs. Property Rights

Council Turns Mvsevm Over To Packards

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Giving away our Mvsevm. Worst. Leaders. Ever.

Mvsevm Speakeasy

A letter of intent to transfer operation of the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History to a nonprofit foundation was approved 5-2 Wednesday by the City Council.

The letter was endorsed unanimously April 21 by the Pacific Grove Museum Advisory Board and calls for transferring operation of the museum to the nonprofit Museum Foundation of Pacific Grove Inc.

The foundation has proposed a public-private partnership with the city in which the museum building, collection and grounds would be leased to the foundation for a 15-year period starting July 1.

The letter came with a list of add-on proposals, which dissenting council members Carmelita Garcia and Alan Cohan said were too one-sided.

Council Turns Mvsevm Over To Packards

The Truth Is Way Out There

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I Want To Believe Moss Landing

According to the sheriff’s log, a deputy took a report Monday from an Elkhorn resident who was upset that someone entered his unlocked spaceship and ransacked the vehicle.

Fortunately, the log noted dryly, “Nothing was missing, and there was no damage to the laser gun.”

But the truth about the unusual crime was neither “out there” nor inside the troubled mind of a deluded spaceship owner.

Cmdr. Mike Richards said he discovered the prank after a reporter requested more information about the spaceship burglary.

The Truth Is Way Out There