Category Archives: New Monterey

Car Haters Planning To Rip Out Wharf Parking

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They say parking lots are not useful. Sorry fishermen and pleasure boaters, you’ll need to hike over to Franklin street to get your parked truck & trailer.

And Festival Space? There’s this huge plaza right next to the Customs house. Is it too not “useful”?

The purpose of the plan is to guide improvements of Monterey’s waterfront. The plan’s draft, according to the city’s principal planner Elizabeth Caraker, emphasizes more usable space and makes it easier for pedestrians to navigate the area. It includes regulations for both the Fisherman’s Wharf and municipal wharf businesses and makes parking changes. It has been embraced by the Planning, Parks and Recreation, and Historic Preservation commissions.

“Overall, participants said they wanted more useable space where the parking lots are,” said Caraker. “So the re-design would serve to include more temporary event or festival space. There would be better circulation for pedestrians and bicycles and better access to parking in the downtown garages when the waterfronts are full.”

Car Haters Planning To Rip Out Wharf Parking

Divers Find It Deeper

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Challenge accepted and met.

Recently the couple was leaving a restaurant at Wharf 2 in Monterey, when Susan accidentally knocked her purse into the water.

“When it first went over the railing, to be honest with you, I wanted to go in after it,” Susan said. “I never expected to see it again. I just went to work and thought, ‘Well, that’s it.’ ”

But Ron wasn’t about to give up. After all, the purse contained $200 in cash, the keys to their car, worth about $250, house keys, a pair of prescription sunglasses worth $400, plus credit cards and personal identification.

About a week later, Glaze went to the end of the pier to buy salmon at the seafood market. Right next to the market is Monterey Abalone Co., which raises abalone in cages under the wharf.

“There was this guy in a wetsuit,” Glaze said. “I asked him … does he know this harbor pretty well?

“‘Oh yeah,’ the man said. ‘I’m down in the water here a lot.’ ”

The man was Andrew Kim, manager of Monterey Abalone Co. He took down Glaze’s name, address and phone number and agreed to try to keep an eye out for the purse while diving.

The next evening the Glazes were in Los Altos when Ron received a call from Kim. “He said, ‘Ron, I found your wife’s purse and it doesn’t look too bad. It’s still zipped up.’ ”

Divers Find It Deeper

Don’t Be Stealing Hearts

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Burglars tried to leaf, but were pickled up by cops.

Four suspects in the burglary of The Giant Artichoke restaurant on Cannery Row were arrested Wednesday.

At about 3 a.m., Monterey officers responded to a report of suspicious persons outside the restaurant. They discovered the restaurant had been burglarized and observed four subjects fleeing the area. Officers created a perimeter and conducted a search.

The four suspects — Michael Lopez, 26, Juan O’Brien, 23 and Melissa Canales, 20, all of San Jose and Adina Jimenez, 18, from Morgan Hill — were found hiding nearby and were arrested and booked into the Monterey jail police said.

Don’t Be Stealing Hearts

Limits On Roach Coaches

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Become a destination. Enjoy food trucks, sidewalk vendors, street artists, etc.

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Debate about food trucks on Cannery Row has been ongoing. In October, the Monterey city council and members of the public voiced their ongoing concerns over increased traffic hazards and the impact of the trucks on the city’s limited on-street parking. Restaurant owners also squawked at the potential of the mobile vendors taking their business away.

“This ordinance was very intensely discussed late last year and early this year in front of council several times,” Assistant City Manager Hans Uslar said.

Limits On Roach Coaches

Like An Envelope Of White Powder

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You never know what you’re gonna get.

Forrest Gump

An employee of the restaurant at 720 Cannery Row opened an envelope, which was hand addressed to her and delivered to the restaurant, while standing at the podium on the patio in front of the building, Monterey Fire Chief Gaudenz Panholzer said.

“When the employee opened it, some white powdery substance came out of the envelope, and it got on three of the employees,” he said.

A hazardous materials team came to the restaurant and tested the substance on site, determining it was powdered sugar.

Like An Envelope Of White Powder

Stars & Bars WILL Fly At Civil Ware Reenactment

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History does not need to be hidden or rewritten.

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Event coordinator, Tim Reese, with the local chapter of
the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, told The Pine
Cone this week that the confusion originated from a series of email messages from the Presidio pertaining to the flag and this year’s event. Subsequently, Reese said he mistakenly posted on the event Facebook page that the Confederate Battle Flag would be “banned” from the encampment. “In the end,” Reese told The Pine Cone, the Presidio was referring to a ban on the “waving of the Confederate Battle Flag in a political fashion.” The event “has never engaged in such an activity of political rhetoric since [the event] was founded in 2007.”

Stars & Bars WILL Fly At Civil Ware Reenactment

Cannery Row Road Rage Results in Reckless Ruling

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Goofy Road Rage

On October 6, 2014, two vehicles were racing on Cannery Row.

The driver of the second vehicle, the defendant, was driving in the wrong lane on a two-way street and nearly collided with a patrol vehicle.

Officer Richardson initiated a traffic stop on both vehicles and determined the incident was motivated by road rage. Carlo Aiken, 55, was found guilty for reckless driving.

Cannery Row Road Rage Results in Reckless Ruling

Elder Abuse On Top Of Animal Abuse

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CVS clerk that had a cat in the car trunk.

Ilagene “Jeanie” Quaglia is accused of stealing from a 82-year-old Pacific Grove man who she cared for and managed his rental properties.

It was a neighbor and close friend who noticed money missing and alerted police earlier this year.

“A reverse mortgage, lots and lots of checks that were written out to herself by her with George’s name forged on them, and a bunch of rental money never deposited,” Kristin Houde said.

After a six month investigation, prosecutors charged Quaglia with three felony counts of elder theft, forgery, and identity theft. The neighbor believes the 61-year-old woman may have stolen more than $100,000.

“It did make me wonder from day one, how does somebody who’s a clerk at CVS, drive a BMW SUV that’s probably worth 70 grand?” Houde said.

Elder Abuse On Top Of Animal Abuse

Convicted Cat Abuser Steals From Elderly P.G. Man

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No one wondered back then how the cat lady could afford to feed 50 animals. The BMW SUV raised questions though.

Ilagene “Jeanie” Quaglia is accused of stealing from a 82-year-old Pacific Grove man who she cared for and managed his rental properties.

After a six month investigation, prosecutors charged Quaglia with three felony counts of elder theft, forgery, and identity theft. The neighbor believes the 61-year-old woman may have stolen more than $100,000.

Quaglia is on probation after pleading guilty to animal cruelty charges two years ago. Humane officers found 48 dogs and cats living in filth inside her Monterey home. When they arrested her at work, she had a cat locked in the trunk of her car. The Monterey house was condemned.

Convicted Cat Abuser Steals From Elderly P.G. Man

El Torito Sewage Spill Closes Beach

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Go easy on the frijoles, ok?

The bureau closed access to McAbee Beach around 10:35 a.m., after the Monterey Fire Department reported a sewage spill coming from El Torito Mexican Restaurant, located at 600 Cannery Row, according to the county officials.
The restaurant sits adjacent to the beach and right on the water’s edge.
The fire department learned of the spill sometime between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. when a person passing through the area called to report sewage spilling into the ocean, according to Monterey Fire Captain Barry Perkins.
The amount of sewage released into the Monterey Bay is unknown at this time, Supervising Environmental Health Specialist with Monterey County Marni Flagg said.

El Torito Sewage Spill Closes Beach
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