Category Archives: Monterey Herald

Gateway Center Budget – 3.8 Million

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www.pacificgrove.com points out – that’s $92,000 per person.

While demand for its services remains steady, the Gateway Center of Monterey County’s funding has gone down in recent months. Now, it has to fix an elevator that won’t go up.

State funding for the Pacific Grove facility for the developmentally disabled was cut by 3 percent in February . . .

. . . The Pacific Grove Gateway is home to 41 developmentally disabled people.

The center started the fiscal year with a $3.8 million budget, but with the February cut and declining donations, the center’s income for the year is projected at $3.3 million, Gateway President and CEO Kathleen Adamson said.

Gateway Center Budget – 3.8 Million

Letters From The Editor – Self Righteous Bicyclists

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I had Tam O’Shanter holler at my kids on the trail for straying to far from the dirt path.Bicycle Crash

My neighbor then told me a male cyclist actually hit her friend on the back of her head during one of their walks. One of the problems with only allowing cyclists on the paved portion is some think they are entitled to enforce the rule with extremely rude and dangerous behavior.

Hmmm. Spokes + walking stick . . .

Letters From The Editor – Self Righteous Bicyclists

Mayor Cort DID Call Resident “Moron”

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Dan Cort Hs

On March 19, Mayor Cort sent an e-mail to his wife, Beth Cort — the organizer of Trees for PG, a volunteer effort founded and initially funded by the Cort family — referring to Booth’s letter, and asking her to “Please set this moron straight.”

Beth Cort forwarded Booth’s letter and one of her own in rebuttal to all six other members of the City Council, as well as interim City Manager Charlene Wiseman, in a message she said inadvertently included the “moron” remark.

Beth Cort said she didn’t notice the remark was in the forwarded e-mail when she sent it, adding that her husband has since apologized personally to Booth.

And add Beth Cort to the roster of offenders.

Mayor Cort DID Call Resident “Moron”.

Don’t Forget David Stamm – New Trial Begins

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David Stamm

Jury selection begins Monday in the second trial of accused child molester David Stamm, the former owner of indoor batting and miniature golf facilities on the Peninsula.

Stamm testified at his first trial that the relationship with his accuser, now 24, was consensual and did not begin until after the boy turned 18.

Don’t Forget David Stamm – New Trial Begins

More Evidence Revealed In Pollacci Rape Cast

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Was the victim bleeding in the store’s office? Who puts a bed in an office? Now an employee of Ron’s Liquor is making damaging statements.

Police investigating the alleged rape of a woman at Ron’s Liquors in Pacific Grove found evidence of blood at the base of stairs leading to what the victim described as a “bachelor pad” above the store.

A liquor store employee told detectives he saw his boss, suspect Tom Pollacci, scrubbing the same area of the floor the morning after the alleged assault, according to court documents.

The worker said he peeked through the crack and saw Pollacci scrubbing the floor beneath the stairs. He said he heard his boss going up and down the stairs and said Pollacci told him not to talk to anybody about what he was doing.

More Evidence Revealed In Pollacci Rape Cast

Free Speech Still Free . . . For Now

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They will be back, probably with a different approach. Mayor Cort says so, ya morons.

“I don’t think stifling the public is the thing to do,” said former Councilman Daniel Miller.

Former Councilman Bob Davis said the purpose of the policy allowing the public to pull consent items “was the right of the public to be informed on every item on the agenda.”

Speaking in favor of the two measures was resident Joy Colangelo, who said that whether residents pull agenda items early in the meeting or wait until the end, “somebody has to wait” because subsequent hearing items on the council agenda are pushed back.

“I guess we’re going back to the drawing board,” Cort said, after council members declined to offer a motion to vote for either item.

Free Speech Still Free . . . For Now

Substainable Pacific Grove: Restricting Your Right To Speak, Unless It Fits Their Agenda Is A Good Thing

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Joy Colonjello and her Sustainable P.G. ‘Agenda 21′ group’s mission to strip people of their rights & property. She whined at a council meeting that other peoples’ agendas were interfering with hers.

Colangelo Shrug Ani

The council will consider today whether to require those who want to address them to fill out speaker cards with their names and addresses beforehand,

As for speaker cards, many public agencies require them, Laredo said, including the Monterey County Board of Supervisors and the cities of Salinas and Santa Cruz. The cards, he said, aid in preparing an accurate record of speakers and the organizations they represent, without interfering with a speaker’s right to engage in anonymous speech.

So they want people to fill out cards before being allowed to speak. So they can visit you o “follow up on matters”, eh?

Substainable Pacific Grove: Restricting Your Right To Speak, Unless It Fits Their Agenda Is A Good Thing

Letters From The Editor – Tom Pollacci

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Herald Hear-old

3/31/09

The Herald’s depiction of Pollacci is more of a crime than anything else, because it creates hype and scares people who may not know him.

I knew him, wish I didn’t.

3/30/09

Let not the sins of the son reflect on the goodness of the family.

I have lived in Pacific Grove all my life. I have gone to school with the Pollacci family and attended social events with them. They are a fine, upstanding family.

A fine upstanding family that employed a registered sex offender. Oxymoron.

Sustainable Pacific Grove: Restricting Your Right To Travel Is A Good Thing

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It’s a war between the remaining stores on the fast-becoming-a-ghost-town streets and the creepy-hidden-agenda new world order groups.

Two things are right – downtown merchants are not selling much that residents want, and the farmers market is fairly dull.

While merchants generally spoke in favor of moving the market venue, representatives of Sustainable Pacific Grove spoke in favor of keeping it at its current location.

“We want it on Lighthouse, and we want Lighthouse closed as often as possible,” said Joy Colangelo of Sustainable Pacific Grove, which claims 430 members.

“Foot traffic will increase downtown profitability,” she said. “Downtown businesses are not selling things we want to buy. They’re unwilling to adapt. That’s why they’re going under.”

If Lighthouse is closed to motor vehicle traffic and becomes a pedestrian mall, Colangelo said, “we’d be the jewel of the county — a quaint, walkable city.”

Substainable Development

Sustainable Pacific Grove: Restricting Your Right To Travel Is A Good Thing