Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Stuart Elder Will Be Vindicated

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Says lawyer. The two ladies that died in the accident were former owners of Stone’s Pet Shop, a P.G. institution.

Witnesses said Elder was speeding and weaving between lanes while he was driving southbound on Sloat Road away from the Inn at Spanish Bay.

But Elder’s San Francisco-based defense attorney, Paul Nathan Puri, said Elder was not intoxicated and was not on his way home from the posh Pebble Beach Food & Wine festival or any related after-parties.

Puri also accused KSBW, other local media and law enforcement of “colluding in sensationalist yellow journalism and debased character assassination for their mutual profit and gain.”

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“Stuart Elder will be vindicated in a court of law,” Puri said.

Stuart Elder Will Be Vindicated

Edit 2/6/15

Eating Crow

P.G. Police, This Bad?

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PG Cop Car 1980s

P.G. can afford a kooky environmental manager but not a ‘substainable’ police force?

PGPD is in trouble

In my 24 years as a police officer with the Pacific Grove Police Department, I have never seen the staffing levels and employee morale so low. It all starts at the top.

Most able-bodied officers are looking for employment elsewhere. The officers are on a leaderless group exercise and the city is exploring ways to contract out the department.

Look at what eight months of contracting a police chief has resulted in: five officers and one civilian have left and more may go.

If the residents of Pacific Grove want to keep their officers on the street and keep their station open to the public, they have to be heard by city officials and the City Council, or it won’t be America’s last hometown for long.

Richard Sinclair Jr.
Carmel

P.G. Police, This Bad?

Elder Not DUI In Fatal Accident – Says Attorney

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Lawyer tells about Stuart Elder’s heroics for his passenger.

An attorney for a Pacific Grove luxury home builder involved in an April 7 collision that left two Pebble Beach women dead and another woman seriously injured issued a statement Monday saying his client was not under the influence of alcohol when the accident occurred.

The statement, emailed to reporters from the office of San Francisco Bay Area defense attorney Paul Nathan Puri, said Stuart Elder, 30, expressed condolences for the deaths of Linda La Rone, 65, and Sharon Daly, 72. They formerly owned a local pet store.

Puri described his law firm as a boutique practice that specializes in “defense against serious accusations and restoring the reputations of good people in their communities.

Elder Not DUI In Fatal Accident – Says Attorney

Former Owners Of Stones Pet Shop Killed In Accident

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Stones Pet Shop story – I would go there for Frontline to keep the cats flea free (living in PG with the forest wildlife all about even cats kept indoors would be host to fleas) I went to the counter where one of the ladies were and asked for Frontline. She would reply “for ???” and I would say “mountain lion”. Got a good chuckle since lions were being seen in in P.G. After that, every time I went for more pet flea control the running gag would come up.

A grisly collision in Pebble Beach on Sloat Road killed two Pebble Beach women Sunday night.

Stuart Elder, 30, of Pacific Grove, was heavily intoxicated when he crossed into oncoming traffic near Bird Rock Road, California Highway Patrol officers said. His 2009 black Cadillac sport utility vehicle crashed head-on into a Ford SUV.

On Thursday, the CHP released the identity of one woman killed in the wreck. Linda Larone, 65, of Pebble Beach, was a passenger in the Ford and died at the scene.

Friends identified the second woman who was driving the Ford as Sharon Daly, 72, of Pebble Beach. Larone and Daly were longtime partners and owned a pet shop together in Pacific Grove.

Former Owners Of Stones Pet Shop Killed In Accident

Annual Springtime News – Beaches Polluted

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Lovers Point Beach Sand

Six beaches in Carmel, Pebble Beach, Pacific Grove, and Monterey were placed under water hazard advisories Tuesday afternoon due to high bacteria levels found in samples taken from the ocean.

The public is urged to not have ocean water contact at the following six beaches:

Monterey Municipal Beach, Monterey
San Carlos Beach, Monterey
Lovers Point, Pacific Grove
Asilomar Beach at Sunset Drive, Pacific Grove
Spanish Bay, Pebble Beach
Carmel Beach at Ocean Avenue, Carmel

Annual Springtime News – Beaches Polluted

97 Year Old Dies Crossing Pine

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Pine Avenue

A 97-year-old Pacific Grove man died at a hospital after being hit by a car in an intersection early Wednesday, police said.

Police called to Pine Avenue and 19th Street about 7:45 a.m. found the man semi-conscious with apparent head injuries.

The driver, a 55-year-old Pacific Grove resident, told police at the scene that he was driving east on Pine, looking directly into the rising sun and couldn’t see the pedestrian.

97 Year Old Dies Crossing Pine

Environmental Programs Manager Is Shocked SHOCKED That Residents Don’t Want A Swamp On Their Street

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Save the city more money – Fire Sarah Hardgrave. And it’s pretty stupid to call it’s tracking system a “Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program” when people are living next to it.

Bridge Over Swamp

The city of Pacific Grove is dropping a wetland-based, clean-water project fiercely opposed by neighbors who said it would create a smelly swamp in a friendly neighborhood park.

“We’re going to take the neighbors’ suggestions … and look to make repairs to the storm drain upstream,” said Sarah Hardgrave, the city’s environmental programs manager, on Wednesday.

Hardgrave, who still sounded shaken by the reception some project opponents gave her at the March 28 meeting, said, “The vehemence of the opponents made it clear the city wasn’t going to successfully” pursue the project.


Environmental Programs Manager Is Shocked SHOCKED That Residents Don’t Want A Swamp On Their Street

Driver In Pebble Beach Crash Has A Record

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13 tickets in 9 years.

Luls that his social networking accounts vanished after the news hit.

Elder was booked into Monterey County Jail early Monday on charges of felony drunken driving and vehicular manslaughter.

He was released from custody about noon after posting $430,000 in bail, a Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman said.

A computer index of Monterey County court records show Elder received 13 traffic citations between 2003 and 2012. Records from a single criminal case dating to November 2000 were no longer available after December 2007, the index said.

Messages touting two after-parties following the Pebble Beach Food & Wine festival, including photos of the crowds in attendance, were posted from ECI Building’s Twitter account several days before the collision.

One dated Thursday, the event’s opening night, read, “After party crazy!!!”

Another was dated shortly after midnight early Saturday.

The festival ended early Sunday afternoon, several hours before the fatal crash, and it is not known if Elder attended that day.

His LinkedIn and Twitter pages were taken down Monday.

Driver In Pebble Beach Crash Has A Record

2 Dead In Pebble Beach Crash

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P.G. man charged with DUI.

A Pacific Grove man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after a traffic collision Sunday in Pebble Beach killed two people in the other car.

They were in a 2005 Ford that collided head-on with a 2009 Cadillac driven by Stuart Elder, 30, of Pacific Grove, the CHP said.

The Cadillac was headed south on Sloat Road just north of Bird Rock Road about 7:30 p.m. when, for an unknown reason, it crossed over into the opposing lane and into the path of the Ford, the CHP said.

The victims in the Ford were dead at the scene, the CHP said.

2 Dead In Pebble Beach Crash