Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Tourist Trolley Funding Approved

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We are in your town, filling your inadequate sewers.

Trolley Riders

The trolley would run between Monterey Bay Aquarium and Asilomar Conference Grounds, following a route that would include Ocean View Boulevard, Sunset Drive and Point Pinos Lighthouse and would return via Lighthouse and Central avenues.

Cost of the bus service is estimated at $60,000, with the city providing $15,000 from its golf fund and $5,000 from the lighthouse fund.

Council members liked the idea but questioned how the city could measure its success.

“We’d need it to generate $3 million worth of business to recover the $60,000 cost,” said Councilman Bill Kampe.

Tourist Trolley Funding Approved

Loser Trifecta – Jesse Crow In Jail After P.G. Traffic Stop

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Arrested for growing pot
Arrested for murder of wife
Traffic violation in Pacific Grove

Jesse Crow

KSBW reports that Jesse Crow was arrested in a traffic stop in P.G. He’d been seeing Summer Donovan of P.G. He carries a medical marijuana card – a response given when popped for growing over 300 pot plants in a house in Prunetucky.

Crow’s first husband, Cody May, revealed new details to Central Coast News about the days leading up to his ex-wife’s disappearance. “She said she was trying to sever the ties,” explained May when questioned about the last time he spoke to Crow.

May said he spoke to her about a month ago. She told him she was going through a messy split with her husband Jesse Crow. “She had left him and was calling me again because every time she was with him I wouldn’t get a call, and when she wasn’t with him I would,” he added.

Jesse Crow has avoided all organized searches for his wife, as well as the media spotlight. Police, however, said he is cooperating with investigators.

Loser Trifecta – Jesse Crow In Jail After P.G. Traffic Stop

Coastal Commission OKs OBH Remodel

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Plans for a major remodeling of the former Old Bath House Restaurant in Pacific Grove have won approval from the state Coastal Commission.

The 3,775-square-foot restaurant will be operated by Ted and Cindy Walter, owner of Passionfish, also in downtown Pacific Grove.

Cindy Walter said the new restaurant will be casual fine dining and won’t have the seafood emphasis that Passionfish has.

Walter said she and her husband haven’t decided on a name for the restaurant, but it won’t be the Old Bath House.

Here’s my suggestion:
Old Bath House Wienerschnitzel

Or, we can just get Juan The Builder to work on it
Juan The Builder At OBH

Coastal Commission OKs OBH Remodel

P.G. Teacher Arrested On Child Molesting Charges

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Teaches at that charter school at the old David Avenue school.

Patrick Lilley
Patrick C. Lilley

Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies said Patrick Lilley, 52, of Monterey, was arrested on a warrant for three counts of child molestation and booked into Monterey County Jail. An investigation by Sonoma County detectives revealed that Lilley allegedly sexually abused two students, who were under the age of 13, about two years ago, authorities said.

Lilley has worked at Monterey Bay Charter School since August, school director Cassandra Gallup Bridge said Friday.

P.G. Teacher Arrested On Child Molesting Charges

Giving It All Up For Tourists – Residential Area Weekend Rentals Approved

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Hey – there’s a solution for the homes that Canterbury Woods owns on Spazier Avenue but cannot occupy, rent them out to transients. How’s that for a keen idea for the NIMBYs that opposed CW from letting employees and guests stay in them?

The tune is different in P.G., where the City Council recently changed a 1993 law prohibiting short-term rentals. Under the new deal, vacation rentals are legit if landlords collect a 10 percent TOT and pay a $200-per-year licensing fee. The cash-strapped city expects about $200,000 annually out of the deal.

Giving It All Up For Tourists – Residential Area Weekend Rentals Approved

Canterbury Woods Was Wrong Says P.G. Hearing Officer

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Canterbury Woods

Another fact that drives home the point I make that Pacific Grove is no longer a city of homes, but a transient rest stop. Give it up for the tourists and get ready to lose tax dollars on defending another lawsuit.

Maybe Canterbury can make some money by renting out the houses as short term stay vacation homes, recently approved by the city. How would those Spazier Avenue residents like that?

Canterbury Woods retirement community violated zoning laws by adding two houses and a duplex in its neighborhood as residential units, said a hearing officer appointed by the city of Pacific Grove.

David Spradling handed down his final decision Monday after a Jan. 7 hearing at City Hall, finding that Canterbury Woods committed four violations of city zoning ordinances by using the dwellings as residential units.

Canterbury Woods Was Wrong Says P.G. Hearing Officer

Pebble Beach Golf Shuttle Shuffle

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Welcome To The Crosby
Used to be you could drive into Pebble and park on the polo grounds or brave the soggy lots to park, or reward the young capitalists that ran private parking lots in their parents’ driveways. These days they keep most of the spectators’ cars out of the forest and make you ride buses into the event.

The best bus ride looks to be the Cannery Row shuttle. $10 for rides from Cannery Row parking garages to and from Pebble. $7 to park the car in the garage right next to the bus stop.

Keep driving past the CSUMB/Fort Ord 12th Street exit by Kohls & Best Buy. Exit on Aquajito Road. Keep going after MPC, land in Monterey or Cannery Row. If you are staying in P.G. head over to Cannery Row. You will be closer to some welcome services when you get back from crawling the course.

Next is the same deal in Downtown Monterey. Park in the garages on Tyler street and ride to Pebble.

Bad deal is the Pacific Grove Chamber Of Commerce. $15 to board a bus at the Mvsevm. There is no parking near the stop, you have to compete with locals to park in their neighborhood. When you return, you will be in the ghost town that is Pacific Grove.

Dreadful is the Fort Ord CSUMB route. Sure, it’s the first sign you see coming into town and it an easy on/off the freeway. But it’s out in the middle of nowhere (Marina).

Kmby 1240 Crosby 1975

Pebble Beach Golf Shuttle Shuffle

Le Normandie Restaurant Special Of The Day: Frauduleux?

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Normandie

Wonder why they kept on opening & closing restaurants and didn’t just get jobs? The collective food talent looks great. Management skills look pathétique.

After the news began to question the the Richards’ stories of woe the whole thing goes aigre The news rack for the Pine Cone in front of the post office was vandalized the day the paper came out.

But to dispel doubt among skeptics who believe the Richards have feigned cancer to gain sympathy, Christine said she would provide medical records right away to prove that her husband and son had genuine illnesses.

On Tuesday, however, she said she needed another week to come up with the documents. And on Thursday, restaurant owner Nancy Lewis left a stern voicemail message:

“I want this whole harassment to stop,” Lewis said. “We are not going to give anymore interviews or information, and if anything more of this comes of this harassment and this National Enquirer point of view, then I’ll get my lawyer involved. This is it, Kelly. Stop it.”.

Le Normandie Restaurant Special Of The Day: Frauduleux?

Tree Gets Death Sentence For Crime Of Being There

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Lisa “Bare” Bennett sat out on this one.

Wallcot Pine Tree

A stately and apparently healthy Monterey pine towering over a Pacific Grove house will come down, the Pacific Grove City Council ruled 5-1 Wednesday.

Residents Stephen and Michaela Braveman sought removal of the tree that stands on the city right-of-way in front of their house at 239 Walcott St. after several Monterey pines in neighboring George Washington Park toppled during a storm in October.

The 30-year-old tree was examined by two former city foresters and both pronounced it healthy but in need of trimming, said city public works director Celia Perez Martinez.

Tree Gets Death Sentence For Crime Of Being There

Stupid P.G. Criminal Caught In Act

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A Pacific Grove man was arrested on suspicion of burglary Tuesday after a neighbor spotted him climbing into a window of a residence, police said.

Pacific Grove police said they arrested Andrew Scott Middlebrook, 19, about 11:30 a.m. after he ran from the home near Gibson Avenue and Monterey Street. He was caught with stolen property a few blocks away after a short foot chase, police said.

Now look at this picture and ask why the news calls him a ‘man’.

Andrew Scott Middlebrook

That’s no man. Might be some inmates best friend though..

Stupid P.G. Criminal Caught In Act