Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Developer Agha Inches Ahead Toward Monstrous Hotel

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Holman Hotel

Bennett, Garcia, Huitt – yay. The rest of the elected officials, tar & feathers.

Kampe thinks the new agreement on the marketing feasibility study will spell out the specifics of Agha’s proposal and allow both parties to move forward. “We need some way to fundamentally break an impasse in terms of action on the site,” he says.

But the vote was a tight 4-3. Councilwoman Lisa Bennett, who joined Mayor Carmelita Garcia and Councilman Robert Huitt in opposition, says the agreement is premature.

While the city’s tentative support encouraged Agha to take the building off the market, he’s disappointed the agreement didn’t get unanimous backing. “Anyone who has the best interests of Pacific Grove in mind will go out of his way to support any healthy project,” he says. “Economically, this project is going to be the best thing ever to happen to Pacific Grove.”

He really means the best thing ever to happen to Nader Agha.

Developer Agha Inches Ahead Toward Monstrous Hotel

Ride The Bus For Life – Stupid Teen DUI

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DUI, Underage drinking, property damage, hit and run, injury to others, yes – This stupid kid should NEVER be allowed behind the wheel for the rest of his life. Barely legal age and starting out with a bang.

The CHP said the crash occurred about 2:50 a.m. when Yant, for unknown reasons, drove a 2009 Hyundai Sonata off a small cliff, coming to rest on the rocks at the water line. . .

The driver, 18-year-old Richard Yant IV, was found at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula about an hour later. He was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, officials said.

“Officers had enough indicators, when they contacted them, to see signs of him being impaired,” CHP Officer Robert Lehman said.

Lehman said Yant’s father had taken him for treatment for a small cut to his hand.

Ride The Bus For Life – Stupid Teen DUI

P.G. Man Arrested After Break In, Assault & Chase

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Police have arrested 20 year-old Gregory Telles for attempted sexual assault, burglary, and assault with a deadly weapon.

Police say that on Monday morning around 1:40 am Telles broke into a home on the 200 block of 17th Street and assaulted the occupants of the home with a knife. The police were called and Telles fled the scene.

Telles is also wanted for an alleged attempted sexual assault in Monterey.

P.G. Man Arrested After Break In, Assault, & Chase

Deborah King Was Driving Reckless Says Witnesses

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Please, never let this inconsiderate druggie behind the wheel again.

Deborah King
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Deborah King will stand trial in the death of Joel Woods, who died after he was struck by King’s SUV as he picked up his son at Pacific Grove Middle School.

Toxicology reports described at the hearing showed that King, 52, had traces of eight different drugs in her system at the time of the accident on Sept. 2, 2008.

She had prescriptions for seven of them, and most were at “therapeutic levels.” The other drug was a small quantity of THC, a chemical found in marijuana, which could have entered her system weeks earlier.

Officer John Purdam, the first to respond to the accident, said he was told by a witness that King nearly rear-ended her at the Highway 1 exit onto Monterey-Salinas Highway moments before she crashed into Woods’ truck, which was parked at the curb outside the school at 835 Forest Ave.

A second witness told Purdam that she saw King’s vehicle drifting out of its lane and weaving through traffic as it approached the school.

Deborah King Was Driving Reckless Says Witnesses

Short Term Rentals Approved, Taxes On The Way

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Tax the realtors – I like it.

The council unanimously voted to approve an ordinance reversing the ban on short-term rentals, which the city hopes will generate at least $200,000 in revenue each year.

The new ordinance requires landlords to obtain a license from the city and pay a 10 percent transient occupancy tax in order to rent out their units for less than 30 days at a time. The ordinance puts homeowners in line with the city’s hotels and inns.

“The revenue generated from the license fees and [transient occupancy tax] will help pay for a code enforcement officer,” Pacific Grove city manager Tom Frutchey said.

Short Term Rentals Approved, Taxes On The Way

P.G. Man Arrested In Seaside Hillbilly Heroin Bust

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Same drug taken in an armed robbery in Pacific Grove in September.

Local narcotics officers have seen a major increase in the illicit use of Oxycontin, a synthetic opiate that produces a heroin-like high, police said.

Police conducted the operation Dec. 1 but didn’t announce the arrests until Thursday.

The one-day narcotics operation took place at several locations and involved “probation searches and an undercover officer,” he said.

Individuals arrested on drug charges were identified as Cristopher Balaban, 21, of Monterey; Charles Clifton, 22, of Monterey; Johnny Magallanez, 23, of Seaside; Michael Castaldo, 22, of Monterey; and Blake Davis, 22, of Pacific Grove, police said.

P.G. Man Arrested In Seaside Hillbilly Heroin Bust

Lynne Nicole Feurer Sentenced To Six Years

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Teacher gets half of the expected 11 years detention at most.
Nicole Fuere Court

After listening to more than a dozen people speak on Feurer’s behalf, Judge Larry Hayes said her positive contributions to society outweighed the aggravated circumstances of the crime that would have called for the maximum sentence of 11 years in prison.

Feurer, 66, was charged with murder in the death of 80-year-old Joseph Francis Cupita and could have been sentenced to life in prison had she been convicted at trial. She pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in October.

Lynne Nicole Feurer Sentenced To Six Years

Survey Says There’s Nothing In P.G.For Tourists To Do

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(Obvious)

A perception that “there is nothing more to see or do” limits repeat tourism to Monterey County, said a survey of 9,000 people compiled for the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Those surveyed cited a lack of activities, more than the weak economy, for limiting their visits. The survey was compiled by Ohio-based IMPACTS Research.

More than 40 percent of those who visited the county hadn’t returned within two years, the survey found.

The survey found the aquarium is by far the biggest draw for tourists, and that people generally don’t differentiate one city or community from another, except for Carmel, Pebble Beach and Big Sur.

Took an Ohio research firm to figure out that people don’t visit for everyday life, they visit for events like Laguna Seca or the Crosby. Shopping for ‘art’ or dining on $22 plates of noodles is not an attraction.

Survey Says There’s Nothing In P.G.For Tourists To Do