Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Colossus Of Gold House Repairs Start

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Wot, you mean the Nobel prize winning author’s grandmother’s house? OK.
Then:
Cog House

Now:

Cog House Remodel

There is, she said, a legitimate connection between Steinbeck and the house, and he likely visited his grandmother there in the summertime as a child, and noted that Elizabeth Hamilton appears as a character in Steinbeck’s novel “East of Eden.”

It’s even possible Steinbeck did some writing there, Trosow said, but that hasn’t been documented.

Steinbeck lived in a Pacific Grove house nearby at 147 11th St. that was built by his father, she said, moving there with his first wife, Carol Brown.

Colossus Of Gold House Repairs Start

Mental Evaluation For P.G. Woman Accused Of Killing Elderly Mother

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Danvers

 

The trial of a Pacific Grove woman accused of killing her mother was again delayed Monday to give her defense attorney time to have the defendant’s mental capacity evaluated.

Danvers, 65, is suspected of beating and kicking her mother to death on Sept. 24, 2009. Police found 96-year-old Charlotte Danvers on the floor of her Forest Hill Boulevard home after Jean Danvers called 911. She died hours later at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.

Mental Evaluation For P.G. Woman Accused Of Killing Elderly Mother

Good Old Days 2011 – Moe Said WHAT?

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Thai Stick?

“It’s the largest arts and crafts show in the tri-county area,” Ammar said. “We have top-name bands and entertainment. Look at downtown on Lighthouse. It’s a zoo.”

A throng of people walked along the noisy, smoky Lighthouse Avenue surrounded by the smells of cooking corn dogs, bratwurst, garlic fries, Thai sticks and calamari. The food vendors shared space with arts and crafts booths, children’s face painting, bounce houses and rides.

Some Good Old Days vendors’ wares show real class:
GOD No Skinny Bitches

Good Old Days 2011 – Moe Said WHAT?

More Hearings For Deborah King

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Give it up and take what you get.

For the fifth time since she drove into a Pacific Grove father killing him in front of his son, a judge has appointed a psychiatrist to evaluate the mental competency of Deborah King.

Defense attorney Heather Rogers told Judge Russell Scott this morning she can’t move forward with a motion for a new trial because she doubts her client’s ability to assist in her own defense.

A jury convicted King in February of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in the death of 35-year-old Joel Woods, who was struck and killed outside Pacific Grove Middle School on Sept. 2, 2008. Because she has five prior drunken-driving convictions, one resulting in a prison term, the former correctional officer faces a sentence of 25 years to life in prison.

More Hearings For Deborah King (Contra Costa Times)

Canterbury Woods Wins In Property Use Dispute

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NIMBYs on Spazier lose that one.

Canterbury Woods

Citing common sense, a judge Thursday settled a long-running dispute between the city of Pacific Grove and Canterbury Woods, ruling three off-site cottages owned by the retirement community did not violate residential zoning laws.

Judge Tom Wills said residents who lived in the homes did not use them in a manner that differed from their neighbors on Spazier Avenue and 19th Street.

“I really think it turns on whether it’s a commercial use,” he said after listening to lengthy arguments from both sides, “and based on the way the ordinance is drafted and to some extent the historical treatment of these properties, and just common sense, I don’t consider these to be commercial uses.”

Canterbury Woods Wins In Property Use Dispute

Man Trapping Cats In P.G.

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He thought they were feral strays. Right.

The man trapping cats and turning them in may have run afoul of a Pacific Grove ordinance prohibiting the trapping of domestic cats, said Elizabeth Yeo, city animal control officer. His case has been referred to City Attorney David Laredo for review.

The law does not allow domestic cats to be trapped, but does allow trapping of feral cats by the city if authorities are notified first, Yeo said.

She said the trapper in this case did not appear to be acting maliciously, thought he was trapping feral cats, and was unaware of the municipal ordinance.

Man Trapping Cats In P.G.

Nader Agha And Dave Potter Settle

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Loan or campaign contribution. Either way it’s money given to politicians to do what for the giver?

Attorneys for both men announced a quiet settlement Friday of a lawsuit Agha filed in April 2010 that accused Potter of misusing a $10,000 campaign contribution Agha said Potter solicited from him in January 2004.

In a one-sentence statement, the attorneys said the dispute “has been resolved to the satisfaction” of Potter, Agha and Russ Carter, a business associate of Potter, who Agha claimed was the intermediary for the alleged campaign contribution.

Nader Agha And Dave Potter Settle

Where Monarchs Die

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Last month, local filmmakers Cristiana DiPietro and husband Matthew Kalamane used P.G. as the setting for their 50-minute short movie “Where Monarchs Die.”

The movie also touches on the disconnect that can occur between young people and those who come to Pacific Grove to live out their golden years. “They have a difficult time trying to find their place in a town where most people go to retire,”

That story repeats itself over and over. “Newlyweds and Nearly Deads” is P.G.

Where Monarchs Die

More Love For Eucalyptus Trees

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Non native flora can be good. No need to dance around the name calling them “Blue Gum” or what ever. Always green and fragrant.

It used to be that planting nonnative plants or trees in Pacific Grove — and elsewhere in California — was considered an environmental taboo.

But there’s a new respect in Pacific Grove for eucalyptus, a towering nonnative tree that often gets a bad rap in the state for shedding bark, competing with native plants and not supporting native animal species.

In Pacific Grove, however, the monarch butterflies that overwinter in the city every
year are the eucalyptus’ biggest fan. For the last century or so, the insects have preferred clustering in eucalyptus beginning in the fall until late February, when they leave. The dense, nonnative trees provide wind shelter for the insect.

More Love For Eucalyptus Trees

Broken Brokaw Hall May Be Demolished

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Not enough room on the lot for a P.G. Remodel?

Brokaw Hall

A historic building that was once part of a military school in Pacific Grove has been tagged for demolition.

Brokaw Hall is “in a dilapidated condition and is now considered unsafe and a danger to the public,” said city building official John Kuehl. The building is at 363 Grove Acre Ave.

After a March 21 inspection, Kuehl issued an order requiring that the property be fenced off immediately and demolished by April 29.

Broken Brokaw Hall May Be Demolished