Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Pollacci Plea Bargains In Rape Trial

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Surprised?

Pollacci made his plea the same day his trial was set to begin. Nine women were scheduled to testify that they were raped by the Pebble Beach man over the past three decades.

In 2008, a woman went into a Pacific Grove liquor store where Pollacci worked to buy water, prosecutor Michael Breeden said. Pollacci asked the woman to go on a lunch date with him and she agreed.

“They went to lunch a second time, and he took her to the travel trailer,” Breeden said. “She did not want to go in. He raped her once they were inside.”

In April 2007, he went on a dinner date with another woman and also forced her into his parent’s travel trailer and raped her, Breeden said. The trailer was parked at the Monterey airport at the time.

Pollacci Plea Bargains In Rape Trial

Tom Pollacci’s Next Rape Trial Starting

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Or is it?

There is still a chance the trial will not go forward. On Friday, the attorneys indicated there were ongoing settlement discussions

He was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison for that crime last year. The victim in that case will join his current accusers and six other women who will testify they had been raped by Pollacci since the 1980s.

All of the victims claim they were attacked by Pollacci on dates or in some other consensual social setting. The current charges allege he raped both victims in his parent’s travel trailer. The third rape allegedly occurred in the loft at his father’s former Pacific Grove liquor store, Ron’s Liquors.

That business, which was recently sold, was also the location of the 2008 rape for which he was convicted last year.

Tom Pollacci’s Next Rape Trial Starting

Runaway Mayor Reappears To Save Us

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Save us from water shortages as he turns cheek and runs away from the desalination supporters. What about a new dam on the Carmel river? Voters supported that way before any other money wasting projects.

Dan Cort Bailn Like Palin

Option 1, pipeline:

For $25 million, we could build a pipeline from the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency plant back to the communities on the Peninsula, where this water originates. MRWPCA treats all the sewage that comes from the cities of Pacific Grove and Monterey. Once the water is treated, it is used to irrigate about 12,000 acres of Salinas farmland, then approximately 10,000 acre-feet is emptied into Monterey Bay.

A pipeline can deliver that wasted water back to the golf courses, parks and public areas of the Peninsula.

Option 2, gray water:

Our communities have the option to mandate that all residents make use of gray water. Our county Health Department and most of our Peninsula cities support the use of gray water, which uses recycled water from showers and sinks to flush toilets and irrigate our gardens. A residential retrofit costs less than $2,000 per household and can save upward of 30 percent of water use in a normal home.

Option 3, David Avenue Reservoir:
A huge untapped asset is the David Avenue Reservoir. This phenomenal resource, built in 1897 by Chinese immigrants, served Pacific Grove and New Monterey for decades.

Runaway Mayor Reappears To Save Us

Contractor Fraud In P.G.

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Your taxes and SDI witholding at work. An injured chef caught doing concrete work. Maybe that’s why the biscuits were rock hard.

On Nov. 10, the District Attorney’s Office said, Jose Cruz was found installing a concrete driveway without a contractor’s license and didn’t possess workers’ compensation insurance for his employees who were working at a site in Pacific Grove.

They said Cruz told a Contractors State Licensing Board investigator that he injured his back while on the job the previous day. The District Attorney’s Office said Cruz had required a deposit of half of the $3,050 contract prior to starting the project – a down payment amount considered excessive by law.

Contractor Fraud In P.G.

Moe Says Things Are Looking Up

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Baghdad Moe

Sure, America’s Last Hometown still struggles with out-of-control CalPERS costs and bickering political camps, but real estate values have held relatively steady. And the downtown commercial vacancy rate has dropped from about 25 percent last year to half of that, according to P.G. Chamber of Commerce President Moe Ammar.

Rabobank recently filled the former World Savings Bank space on Lighthouse Avenue, he says. And The Alliance on Aging just signed a lease to run a high-end consignment shop in the old Hallmark building, which sat empty for almost five years. Other new retailers include a doll shop, a teen clothing store and two art galleries.

Nothing for locals to see, move along.

Happy Hour In PG – Saturday July 9

Empty street

Moe Says Things Are Looking Up

Presidio May Build New Gate On Highway 68

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Pending congressional approval. Since we know how much Sam the Sham Farr cares about our national defense, it won’t happen.

68 Bw1985

The plan offers two alternatives: a centralized campus at the Presidio, consolidating instruction and troop housing there, with two new barracks buildings, three instructional buildings and four multi-level parking garages, or construction of the new barracks and instructional buildings at Ord Military Community, with parking garages at the Presidio.

It also calls for a future access gate to the installation at Holman Highway.

Most of those projects, including the new gate, are scheduled for fiscal 2017 or later and have not been approved by Congress, Elliott said.

Presidio May Build New Gate On Highway 68

Trolley Bus Stops In P.G.

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We are in your town, filling your inadequate sewers.

Trolley Riders

“I think there are a lot of people who don’t know about Pacific Grove at all. And any instrument that brings people into the town, once they see it, once they’re acquainted with the charm of it, they return and that’s always a good thing,” said Terry Clemens, Pacific Grove Business Owner.

Trolley Bus Stops In P.G.

Sustainable Pacific Grove Unconstitutional?

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Scheme sounds vaguely familiar.

Agenda 21

Agenda 21 is a UN initiative that 178 governments at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) adopted in 1992 under the auspices of saving the environment. It bills itself as a coordinated plan of action to help nations and local government ensure “sustainability.”

Agenda 21 usurps sovereignty, property rights, economic liberty, and basically hands over power, resources and land to unelected elitists … to control the populations of every country in the world. Agenda 21 purports to address environmental issues, but calls for wealth redistribution, resource redistribution, food redistribution, energy restrictions, supposed social justice, and more. It is NOT about the environment, though it pretends to be.”

Sustainable Pacific Grove Unconstitutional?