Category Archives: Pacific Grove

$42,000 Down The (Historically Reviewed) Sewer

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Reviews that come in to play when a property is sold or remolded or torn down? Make the property owner foot the bill.

The City of Pacific Grove is going to pay a consultant more than $40,000 to get a better handle on the city’s historic buildings. The P.G. City Council voted Wednesday night to spend $42,400 to prepare an “historic context statement,” which will include describing how the city’s architecture evolved.

While spending $40,000 on a report in a city that is having severe financial troubles may seem superfluous, Burgess said in the long run, the report could save money for the city and residents, who must fork over from $200 to $1,000 for a historic evaluation.

$42,000 Down The (Historically Reviewed) Sewer

Grenades Do Not Make Good Knickknacks

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Two World War II hand grenades were found inside a Pacific Grove garage on Grove (Acre) Avenue Wednesday morning.

Relatives of the former tenant were cleaning out the house when the found the grenades. They say that the WWII vet that used to live in the house probably got the grenades as “mementos” and then must have forgotten that he even had them.

Grenades Do Not Make Good Knickknacks

Mystery Giver Leaves Money In P.G.

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In some cities there are kind people that give out money to the poor or homeless so that they might enjoy a bit of comfort that many take for granted. In P.G. they ask you to buy a $20 plate of noodles or an eight dollar jar of pickles.

Free Money

A total of 11 people have reported receiving cards filled with anywhere from $10 to $50. The cards included a list of suggestions of what to do with the money.

The suggestions include donating the money, spending it as a Pacific Grove restaurant or adding more money and blessing someone else.

Mystery Giver Leaves Money In P.G.

Letters From The Editor: PG Pothole Patching Poorly Performed

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There’s a real jolting one on the S/E corner of Forest & Sinex. Try going around a left-turning car and BAM you are out of alignment.
Spruce Pot Hole

Ron Russell writes:

Grrrrr! Yes, Pacific Grove has me growling again. Not long ago, I facetiously wrote that P.G.’s road workers must do their shoddy repairs with a butter knife and a ladle. Now it seems they’ve even lost those tools.

What I find incomprehensible is that when a pothole is patched, the workmanship is so substandard that within a month it returns, often worse than before.

Perhaps the city should consider a volunteer brigade of retired contractors or citizens to help out. I’d gladly donate some time to fix some of the potholes in my neighborhood if the materials were provided.

Letters From The Editor: Pothole Patching Poorly Performed

Pollacci Pleads Innocent In New Rape Charges

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Tommy needs lifer status.

Tom Pollacci

Convicted rapist Thomas Pollacci of Pebble Beach pleaded not guilty Wednesday to three counts of forcible rape, Monterey County prosecutor Michael Breeden said.

The new charges relate to alleged rapes that took place in 2007 and 2008, according to testimony at Pollacci’s preliminary hearing in November. He faces a possible life sentence in the new case.

Trial is scheduled for April 11, Breeden said.

Pollacci Pleads Innocent In New Rape Charges

Decriminalizing Tree Removal – Thom’s Tree Posse Loses Their Badges

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Killer Tree

A revised tree ordinance that would do away with criminal penalties could come before the Pacific Grove City Council for approval next spring.

The ordinance would offer incentives for property owners to plant and maintain trees and would allow private property owners to pay to trim city trees.

Decriminalizing Tree Removal – Thom’s Tree Posse Loses Their Badges