A diver who encountered problems during a training exercise at San Carlos Beach in Monterey over the weekend has died, coroner’s office officials confirmed Thursday.
Exactly when she died is unclear, but on Saturday afternoon when she was taken to the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula for treatment, paramedics said she was unresponsive and had a pulse.
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4,000 Year Old Skeleton Unearthed On Lighthouse Avenue
Newest Outzenville apartments being built over native burial site. Nothing to be afraid of, right?
The mysterious male skeleton found on a Monterey job site last month is 4,080 years old, testing has revealed.
The age solidifies early assumptions he was Native American, significantly predating European contact.The skeleton’s age did not surprise the local Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation.
“What can we say? These are our ancestors and we know they’ve been here for longer than the 4,000 years,” chairwoman Louise Miranda Ramirez said.
Bears Vacationing In P.G.
Careful, Yogi. Carmel shoots them out of trees.
The black bear was caught in Monterey Sunday morning by California Department of Fish and Wildlife officers. Officers used tranquilizer guns, and the bear was not injured.
Shortly after, wildlife officials released the male bear back into the wild, deep in Los Padres National Forest.
Don Kelly of the Dept. of Fish and Wildlife said the bear most likely wandered into residential areas looking for food.
Ocean View Plaza On Cannery Row For Sale
One company buys the land, hammers out the details to get permits then sells it to someone else who may or may not build what was approved.

The property — which includes both 484 Cannery Row, which is Oceanside; and 501 Cannery Row, which is on the other side of the street — is just over 3 acres of land. On May 4, 2015, Altman Brothers, a luxury real estate agency based in Beverly Hills, put a listing online. Brittany Clark, with Altman Brothers, said the $20 million buy is already generating $400,000 annually for a parking lot on the 501 Cannery Row side of the street.
Unwelcome Downtown Businesses
Moe hates the resale shops that proliferate the city. As the town struggles to attract businesses to downtown, there is a moratorium of certain types of commerce.
Art galleries that are open maybe 14 hours a week are welcome. All the rest of you stay in New Monterey:
The Community Development Department received a letter from the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce (Attachment 3) requesting a moratorium on the allowance of future benefit/consignment and resale shops. This is but one example of incompatible (but currently allowed) uses allowed in the Commercial Downtown (C-D) Zoning District
- Pawn Shops
- Electronic Cigarette (Vapor/Vape) Shops
- Check Cashing Stores
- Bail Bonds
- Storefront Churches (religious assembly)
- Gold and Silver Exchange Stores
- Auction Houses (existing may remain)
- Automobile Rental
- Recreational Vehicle Sales (including boats)
- Tire Sales and Repair
- Blood, Plasma Sale Centers
- Kennels or Pet Boarding (when not associated with an animal hospital)
- Body Piercing and Tattoo Shops (on Ground Floor, only)
Classical Is Out, Crooners Are In At KNRY
Bring back the rock and roll of the sixties/seventies. That’s when 1240 AM was great.

Saul Levine, owner and president of Mount Wilson FM Broadcasters Inc., said the new format, which debuts Monday, will blend standards recorded by legends such as Doris Day, Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis and Dean Martin with modern interpretations of the classics by contemporary performers like Diana Krall, Harry Connick Jr., Michael Bublé and Steve Tyrell.
Too Many Chiefs Trying To Solve Traffic Jams On Lighthouse
Common sense solutions go by the wayside as planners think up more ways to win the war on cars.
Are there improvements we can look forward too? Yes there are, but the stakeholders have to come together and agree what’s best for the community of Monterey in this mecca of tourism.
Planners with the City of Monterey have been working on this issue for over 10 years. 9-11 was the beginning of the mega traffic issues after access across the Presidio was cut off. That left Lighthouse Avenue and the Holman Highway as the only funnel points off the peninsula.
Progress is slow on the Lighthouse avenue corridor. Since 2010, planners have been presenting ideas in workshops to make Lighthouse Avenue one way and Foam Street one way in the opposite direction. Planners have also proposed more plans for mass transit, bicycles and pedestrians and down played vehicles.
Walking The Streets Of New Monterey Are Unsafe At Night
Guns and knives. Eeek.
About 10:30 p.m., the suspects approached a man and a woman walking on Spencer Street, between Irving and Prescott avenues, and demanded money.
One of the victims was robbed of his wallet, police say. Neither one of the victims was injured.
After being robbed, the victims said they last saw the suspects run toward David Avenue.
Both assailants were described as being in their early 20s, wearing dark hooded sweatshirts. The suspect armed with the revolver had his face covered with a bandana.
Roof Jumping Stabber Had Restraining Order Against Victim
Looks scared. So why was he at her house?

Police say Tara Desousa, 50, and Matthew Kyle Huntington, 44, were dating, but according to a restraining order Huntington filed against her in November 2014, he claims she stalked and abused him.
“She is obsessed with me. She is mentally ill. She has others threaten me,” Huntington wrote in the order. “Tara is not (in) her right mind and is a threat to myself and my family.”
Monterey detectives believe Desousa, a petite blonde woman who worked as a server in Monterey, was stabbed to death in the bedroom of her Laine Street home by Huntington, a golf caddie at one of the country’s best golf courses, Wednesday night.
Relationship Ends In Stabbing Death Then Jumping Off A Roof
With a bar owner intervening and a woman waiting for a bus.
Late Wednesday night Monterey officers responded to a report of a stabbing in the 200 Block of Laine Street.
It happened at 10:21pm, and the initial report indicated the woman was stabbed by a man she knew at a home. Officers located a woman suffering from multiple stab wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The suspect had fled the scene before officers arrived.
Shortly after, the suspect was found just blocks away near the intersection of Lighthouse and Reeside. Police say the suspect was unconscious and had significant injuries resulting from a fall from the rooftop of Oya Inc hair salon.
Carbone took pictures with his cell phone of Huntington lying on the ground, as officers arrested him and took him to the hospital. Carbone said initially he thought a cab driver may have hit Huntington, but another woman waiting for a bus was (said) what happened.
“I said, did that car just hit him? And she looked in the air and said he just jumped off that roof,” Carbone said.
Relationship Ends In Stabbing Death Then Jumping Off A Roof

