Category Archives: Pacific Grove

P.G. Fires Cops In Schools

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Afraid of guns? Or give the student one less resource to go to when being abused by teachers?

PGhs Speling

The board’s decision not to continue the program comes after an incident in September 2024 in which a transient who trespassed on the P.G. High threatened to shoot a school employee. In November 2023, another man vowed to kill P.G. High’s former principal after wandering around
inside the city’s middle school.
School board member Jennifer McNary pointed to numerous reasons she didn’t want a police presence at P.G. schools.’ ‘I’m not in favor of guns on campuses,” McNary said.

P.G. Fires Cops In Schools

Wild Fish Manager Getting Deported

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Add to the list of legal fails at Liz Jacobs’ P.G. restaurant.

Wildfish menu

Juan Carlos Contreras, 43, was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement officials June 4, according to the owners of Wild Fish on Lighthouse Avenue, where he’s worked for five years. While Contreras has lived in the United States for about 25 years, immigration officials have started efforts to deport him.

according to Monterey County Superior Court documents, he was arrested Feb. 4, 2018, and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, excessive blood alcohol content of nearly twice the legal limit, DUI with a previous conviction within IO years, and hit-and-run. In October 2022, Contreras again pleaded guilty to DUI and enhancements of excessive blood alcohol and multiple DUIs in exchange for prosecutors dropping the other charges.
A plea agreement reviewed by The Pine Cone shows that, in exchange for the deal,  Contreras signed a form that stated, “I understand that if I am not a United States citizen, that my plea of guilty or no contest may result in Immigration consequences such as deportation, exclusion from  admission into the United States, and denial of naturalization or amnesty”

Wild Fish Manager Getting Deported

Cal Am HQ Leaving P.G.

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Country Club Gate becoming a ghost town?

The relocation will centralize Cal Am’s field operations employees and office staff, including customer service. A listing for the building by commercial real estate firm Mahoney & Associates, said “the property is conveniently situated along the Highway 68 corridor between Monterey and Salinas.” The building is located between Upper and Lower Ragsdale drives. California American Water has been located on Forest Lodge Road in Pacific Grove since 2007.

Cal Am HQ Leaving P.G.

Chinesium Battery Starts Fire At Forest Grove School

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Add this to the list of hazards we are warned about at Forest Grove.

fire inside a Pacific Grove classroom Thursday morning caused by a lithium-ion-powered battery was prevented from spreading after a quick-thinking teacher used sand her students play with to put it out, the Monterey Fire Department said.
Firefighters were dispatched to Forest Grove Elementary School just before 10 a.m., while summer school was in session. Division Chief Justin Cooper said the origin of the fire was a portable voice amplifier, a device teachers use to boost their voices in the classroom

Chinesium Battery Starts Fire At Forest Grove School

Knock! Knock! Land Shark? Mormons?

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Fire inspectors out door knocking for fire prevention but there is no door to knock on for the fuel infested Washington Park.

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It’s a change many residents didn’t anticipate, coastal neighborhoods, long thought to be relatively safe, are now officially in the wildfire danger zone.”We presume in Carmel that we’re fairly safe,” Michael Spicer said.

However, the new Cal Fire hazard maps show otherwise. One Monterey resident said he wasn’t surprised by the updated risk designation.

“It doesn’t surprise me that it’s, on a high, fire zone. Yes. Because, as you know, we live in a forest,” Leonard Levenson said.

In response, Cal Fire has deployed six inspectors to visit homeowners, educating them about vegetation management, structure hardening, and defensible space, the key factors that can reduce wildfire damage.

Knock! Knock! Land Shark? Mormons?

Most Popular New Attraction: A Flame Broiled Burger Joint

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Whatever brings ’em in. Too bad the last fast-food place this side of the tunnel is gone.Carl's Jr flames

The burned-out husk of the Carl’s Jr. building on the corner of Lighthouse and David avenues draws passersby with their phones out, snapping photos of the pile of rubble that neighbors the Pacific Grove Tourist Information Center and is a stone’s throw from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Monterey Fire Division Chief Justin Cooper says insurance investigators are still combing the property to try to determine the cause of the fire, which remains unknown. Due to the severity of the damage, the cause may never be discovered, but Cooper says it doesn’t appear the fire was set intentionally.

Most Popular New Attraction: A Flame Broiled Burger Joint

New Cinema Owner Gets Charges, Pays Over $200,000

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Same doctor that bought 301 Grand Ave

Lighthouse Cinema

 

Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine M. Pacioni announced today that three law enforcement cases against Dr. Ayman Adeeb have been resolved. The allegations against Dr. Adeeb include billing insurance companies for procedures never performed on patients, contracting without a license, and failing to pay required worker’s compensation insurance.

In resolving these cases, Dr. Adeeb has pled to two misdemeanors counts of Penal Code 372 (Public Nuisance), and will additionally pay a civil penalty in the amount of $200,000 for violating Business and Professions Code section 17200, as well as a $10,000 penalty for violating the worker’s compensation insurance mandate for employers. Additionally, Dr. Adeeb will pay restitution to insurance companies in the amount of $23,000 to Anthem and $5,830 to Humana.

New Cinema Owner Gets Charges, Pays Over $200,000

All Those Opposed To The Self-Awarded Pay Hike, Sign The Referendum

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City Hall

A group of residents opposed to the Pacific Grove City Council’s decision last week to give itself an immediate 130 percent pay raise is hoping to overturn the idea by putting it to a vote of the people. The council on May 21 passed an ordinance to increase their monthly pay from $420 to $966, and from $700 to $1,610 for the mayor. Councilmembers Lori McDonnell and Paul Walkingstick voted against the pay hike.
In response, a group calling itself Transparent Pacific Grove filed referendum paperwork with the city clerk May 23. Former city councilman Luke Coletti filed the documents for the group.

All Those Opposed To The Self-Awarded Pay Hike, Sign The Referendum

Water Main Breakers

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School Spirt, eh.

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The California American Water break occurred after noon in the bus parking zone which parents also use to drop off and pick-up their kids on Sunset Avenue. Former P.G. City Councilman Dan Miller said that about two years ago — before Mogensen was city manager — he complained to city officials about a significant bulge in the pavement in front of the high school, but nothing was done about it. The pavement bulge turned out to be where the water main-break occurred.

Water Main Breakers