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Category Archives: Pacific Grove
Kris Olinger Murder Case Finally Going To Trial
Kristopher Olinger was murdered in 1997 at the turnout by the foghorn.
Jacobo Ruelas, who was 18 when Olinger was stabbed to death and dumped on the Pacific Grove Recreation Trail, faces a potential death penalty if convicted.
Despite years of prodding by Olinger’s mother, Shell Phillips, there were no arrests until 2006, when Pacific Grove police got a “hit” between the state’s new palm print database and a print lifted from the car.
Dukes Ducks Out
Second hand men’s clothing store. Prices were insane, I swore that this was really some kind of speakeasy or card room in the back with the old clothes and umbrellas as a front.
What, No Orgasms In Farmers Market Move This Time?
Anyone for a hot dog stand in front of the Mvsevm?
Next the poor sellers of “Stuff No One Wants But Would Buy To Give To Someone Else” will complain that the market is taking away their customers or not leaving any spaces on Lighthouse Avenue to park their carpet cleaner vans.
Pacific Grove’s farmers market will move a block downhill from its downtown location on Lighthouse Avenue, pending approval by the city Planning Commission.
The move was undertaken to satisfy complaints by merchants on Lighthouse that the market was taking away business each Monday.
“The complainers,” Bennett said, “have won.”
Another Tax With Every Election
Constant fail, tax for more Library services. Need to pay for more non-reading events.
The City Council voted unanimously late Wednesday to place a parcel tax measure on the November ballot that would provide money for the city library.
The tax would need approval by two-thirds of voters to pass. A similar measure for a $95 parcel tax failed in November 2009 because only 65.91 percent of voters supported it.
Tree Posse Told To Back Off
Resident that was once called a “moron” by the runaway mayor Dan Cort is authoring the revision in the city’s policy on tree removal.
“I want to be safe in my own yard,” said Del Monte Park-area resident Georgia Booth, who was a founder of Residents for Responsible Change and co-author of a proposed revision of the tree ordinance — which got a lot of votes from workshop participants. “Large canopy trees don’t belong in small Pacific Grove yards.”
Eliminating the two-for-one replacement requirement was a top vote-getter, as were proposals that property owners, not the city, decide when a hazardous tree should be removed, that no permit fee for it should be charged, and that property owners who plant a tree may remove it
without a permit.
Stabbing On Forest Ave
Hear-Old Reports the fight was about a woman.
Alexander R. Lyon, 20, was arrested and booked on suspicion of stabbing a 20-year-old on Sunday at a home in the 1100 block of Forest Avenue.
Police said they were called to the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula at 4 a.m. on Sunday where a 20-year-old male victim said he was stabbed several times during a fight.
P.G. Resident Runs Over Campers In DUI
Timothy needs to be banished from driving for life.
Pacific Grove resident Timothy Petrick, 25, was jailed for felony drunken driving early last Sunday morning after allegedly driving over Carmel High School student Ryan Marden with his pickup truck while trying to get up a hill. The teen, who is the son of Carmel River School principal Jay Marden, and a friend had been sleeping under the stars at a Corral de Tierra property when the accident occurred, according to California Highway Patrol public information officer Bob Lehman.
One World Order Fire Protection Approved
Retired attorney John Moore of Pacific Grove said the joint powers agency would lock the city into the state Public Employees’ Retirement System — CalPERS — and into a continually mounting liability for pension costs.
Longtime Pacific Grove firefighter Richard Stilwell said he hasn’t been impressed by the consolidated Monterey and Pacific Grove fire department, but firefighter representatives said their unions support the joint powers agency and that service, training and equipment have improved.
“We should not have demonization of groups simply because they got good labor contracts,”
Councilman Ken Cuneo said on moving to approve the joint powers agency. “We should not look at police and firefighters as the enemy.”
Pacific Grove Library’s 102nd Anniversary
Celebrate the library’s birthday with events that have nothing to do with books. Books, ehhhh who needs ’em, right?
While the library may open fewer hours than before, it’s still open more than 3 Art Galleries combined.
Folksinger Nancy Raven and musician Ann Downs play at 1 p.m. Children of all ages are invited to Mr. Horsefeathers’ Magic Show at 2 p.m., and birthday cake will be served at 3 p.m.