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.
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.
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?
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tommy could get another 24 years in the slammer.
Thomas Pollacci, 50, will be arraigned Thursday on three new counts of forcible rape involving two victims.
Pollacci was found guilty April 26 of raping a woman in a loft above his father’s Pacific Grove liquor store, Ron’s Liquors, two years ago.
Prosecutors said that the two alleged victims Pollacci is now being charged with raping are not the same women who testified during Pollacci’s trial in April.
Here’s the list of hopefuls that applied to replace quitter Deborah “Bankrupt” Lindsay, and some comments from their statements.
Richard Ahart – Uses the word “sustainable”. Thinks that allowing more fast food franchises can help bring revenue and then touts several fast food corporations as clients. Says he “has earned the confidence of voters during the last election”. He was dead last, getting fewer votes than David Dilworth, LOL.
Laura Dadiw – “Dadiw Associates . . Headquartered in Pacific Grove” Consultant that works from home. Prioritizes “health and welfare of Pacific Grove youth”. Sounding good until I notice she puts down 93953 as her ZIP Code. That’s Pebble Beach, dummy.
Eric Chad Fonferek – wants to “stimulate business growth” and “raise Pacific Grove’s tourism profile. Thinks that Holman building is a city asset. I thought Nadir owned it.
William Fredrickson – Mechanical Engineer. Wants to work with Moe to bring more tourists to P.G. Might know how to fix the sewers that fill up from said tourists.
Khalil Ibrahim – Arabic teacher. Long list of experiences, none that have to do with being on city council. Offers up nothing to give to the city.
Daniel Miller – 54 year resident. Came in 4th place in last election that put Bankrupt Deb in office at 3rd place.
Rudy Fischer – another misguided person that thinks Moe is “doing a lot to bring new business” and repairing sidewalks will make us walk instead of drive.
All from those nice people at AT&T.
Anyone have the luck of getting one of these big honking structures in their front yard, sidewalk or have the landscaping ripped out to make room for one?
A nationwide service outage continues to impact customers of AT&T’s VoIP-based U-Verse Voice service — users of its fiber-to-the-home TV and broadband network for phone service as well. Now home-based VoIP phone users are waiting in Internet chat queues numbering hundreds of users long seeking solutions, and at least a few customers are reporting they’re waiting on hold from their (working) Verizon Wireless phones.
Though there has been no official explanation, customers who have gotten through to support personnel have been advised that the cause is some sort of server outage. That diagnosis would appear to be contradicted by evidence that service has been restored to some areas while still down in others; and also that the outage does not appear to affect TV or broadband service.
Faster Slow Internet, Limited HD TV And Buggy Phone Service Coming Soon
Saw fish gets revenge?
A 30-year-old Pacific Grove man suffering from hypothermia was rescued Tuesday after his fishing kayak began taking on water in the middle of Monterey Bay, officials said.
The unidentified man called 911 about 6:20 p.m. to report a leaky hull and that he had rolled three times, officials said. The man was unable to describe where he was, but after 20 minutes realized he could determine his location by reading coordinates from his iPhone’s GPS system.