Category Archives: Pacific Grove

How To Prepare For AT&T UVerse Install

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Frequently asked question, how do I get ready for that new Internet and TV service from AT$T? As a public service, here you go:

Holding The ATT Banner

Prepare to have your sidewalks blocked while they tear up the place:
Att Uverse Blocking Sidewalk

Then get ready to have your landscaping scalped:
Att Uverse Kills Shrubs
And prepare to have some big graffiti attracting humming cabinets plopped down on every corner:
Att Uverse More Pedestals

Prepare to have your actions monitored

Att Spies Nsa

And prepare to be underwhelmed by DSL that is faster than Red Shift but still way slower than cable. Currently only the subscribers that are within a certain distance of those cabinets can get 2 high definition channels at the same time, and if you do watch or record your 2 concurrent HD channels, your internet slows down.

Prepare to be flooded with ads, and be told that Uverse is “fiber”. It’s fiber to the humming box, then it’s passed on to the old copper lines to your home.

Prepare to pay for 16 meg down and only get 6, because you live farther from the humming box. Guess what? Both pay the same no matter what speed of service you get.

You’re welcome!

How To Prepare For AT&T UVerse Install

Moe Predicts A Bad US Open Windfall

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Moe blathers from his butt about this month’s “greatest thin that could happen”. Pacific Grove could have more revenues if they’d bring in what people want when they are visiting.

Moe Ammar believes the U.S. Open will be “the greatest thing that could happen” to the local economy.

But Ammar, president of the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce, is the first to admit that this year’s U.S. Open won’t be as lucrative as 2000, the last time the tournament came to Pebble Beach.

While many hotel rooms on the Peninsula were reserved long ago for U.S. Open week, there are rooms to be had with tournament play just four days away.

Ammar’s survey last week showed Pacific Grove’s 28 hotels and motels are 81 percent booked for the U.S. Open — down from 96 percent a week before the 2000 tournament.

Moe Predicts A Bad US Open Windfall

Another Chapter In “What The Heck Is Moe Ammar Talking About?

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Article from KSBW about cities preparing for the rush of U.S. Open tourists.

In Pacific Grove, Moe Ammar said that businesses will stay open longer because of the U.S. Open.

“Typically, a lot of the stores in Pacific Grove would close at 5 to 5:30 p.m.,” Ammar said. “For the Open, they will stay open until 9 p.m., which is really great.”

Speak for yourself you clueless fool. Maybe the wine galleries, second hand clothing and rusty garden decor shops close at 5, but there is more to P.G. than them.

Another Chapter In “What The Heck Is Moe Ammar Talking About?

Rons Liquors Rapist Says He Is Innocent Of New Charges

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Pollacci Parking Sex Offenders

Same as he said about the one he was convicted of. Notice he’s now got a public defender – wha’ happened?

Convicted rapist Thomas Pollacci entered not-guilty pleas Friday to three new charges that he sexually assaulted two other women in 2007 and 2008.

Pollacci hasn’t been sentenced on the original conviction. He faces up to eight years in prison in that case and an additional 24 years if convicted of all charges in the new case.

Rons Liquors Rapist Says He Is Innocent Of New Charges

Moe’s Bike Race Closes Street, Attracts Few

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Street was shut down all day. Aside from the bicycle riders, I’ve seen more people at a foggy farmers’ market.

Perfect weather, an easy viewing venue and upward of 300 racing entries still didn’t make the 2010 Pacific Grove Butterfly Criterium a big draw for spectators.

The race, sponsored by the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce with the cooperation of the city, was organized by Central Coast cycling clubs Ghost Tree Racing and VOS Racing.

Moe’s Bike Race Closes Street, Attracts Few

Pollacci Rape Trial Sequel

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Attorney Liu is out, now has a public defender. What happend?

His arraignment in the courtroom of Superior Court Judge Timothy Roberts was bumped to June 11 after Andrew Liu withdrew as Pollacci’s attorney for that case, and public defender J.B. Robert was appointed in his place.

J.B. Robert immediately asked for a continuation for the arraignment to familiarize himself with the case.

Liu, who defended Pollacci in a rape trial that ended in April with a conviction, will continue to represent the 50-year-old Pebble Beach resident in the original case.

Pollacci Rape Trial Sequel

Agha vs. Potter

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Agha contends he was asked by Potter for a $10,000 contribution in January 2004 to Potter’s re-election campaign, and Potter asked him to make the check out to Russ Carter, who Agha contends Potter said was his campaign manager.

Agha goes on to claim that his comptroller gave the check to Potter and wrote the word “loan” on it at Potter’s instruction.

Got a copy of that canceled check, Nadir?

Agha vs. Potter

Looks Like No Trolley Buses From P.G. For US Open

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Take the Cannery Row shuttle bus. $20 per person, free parking in the parking garage a block from Cannery Row.

One of these would have been cool:

Mini Monarch Ani

Pacific Grove officials hoped to see a Monterey-Salinas Transit trolley bus rolling through downtown in time for the U.S. Open.

The trolley was meant to showcase the town’s history and to tourist attractions.

But the plan will have to be on hold, said City Manager Thomas Frutchey, due to a shortage of the trolleys.

Looks Like No Trolley Buses From P.G. For US Open

Mvsevm As We Knew It Officially Gone For Good

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The transformation from a resource to catalog and display real history of the area to some kind of art gallery and substainable re-education camp is complete. The quickly fading current city council team approved it. Only Dan Miller opposed the giveaway.

Mvsevm Speakeasy

Doubling the length of the Museum Foundation of Pacific Grove’s lease from 15 to 30 years, and changes allowing it more control over museum funds, facilities and administration, were approved 6-1 Wednesday by the Pacific Grove City Council.

The changes were part of an agreement hashed out in February by City Manager Thomas Frutchey, Mayor Carmelita Garcia and museum foundation board president Jason Burnett as part of a six-month review of the original lease agreement approved by the council a year ago.

Ignored in the process was the Pacific Grove Museum Advisory Board, the original oversight body established by the city charter.

Former museum director Vern Yadon told the council that the charter requires review of policies affecting the museum by the museum board, particularly those involving major fund transfers, but Frutchey said he didn’t believe an advisory body — the museum board — should have oversight over a governing body — the foundation board.

Frutchey said the museum foundation faced deadlines in its application for major grant funding from the National Endowment of the Arts and needed to move ahead.


Mvsevm As We Knew It Officially Gone For Good

Dan Miller Chosen To Replace Bankrupt Deb Lindsay

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Miller Time

Four of the six council members voted for Miller during Tuesday’s special meeting, just beating the 30-day deadline to replace Lindsay, who said she was stepping down for family reasons.

Miller will serve out the rest of Lindsay’s term, which is up for election in November.

Councilman Bill Kampe voted for planning commissioner and retired businessman Bill Frederickson. Councilman Robert Huitt voted for Defense Language Institute employee Rudy Fischer.

Dan Miller Chosen To Replace Bankrupt Deb