For the second time, the jury deadlocked on several charges that David Stamm molested a 14-year-old boy and showed him pornography. Stamm’s defense has said the alleged victim was 18-years-old at the time, and that the sexual encounters were consenual.
Stamm then said his life was like, “A broken bottle. There are many pieces I can pick up, but there are also many slivers that will still be missing.”
Maybe those slivers are in the victim . .
Charge rent for businesses obstructing the sidewalks for commercial gain – here’s over 100 square feet of prime property – public property going for free.
36 sq. ft. from the bakery and one sidewalk spam sign for Chocolate 9 sq. ft.
Next block, the crumbling red house another 20 sq. ft.
And the ghetto news racks, 25 sq. ft.
From news to noodles 16 sq. ft.
And garbage storage for Lighthouse Cafe, 20 sq. ft.
Dyke Park
Downtown was very busy last night. Most people were smiling.
“We won’t be doing what some people probably think sexologists do when we get together: There won’t be any crazy orgies or anything like that,” said Monterey’s Stephen Braveman, a certified diplomat of sex therapy and co-chairman of the four-day event. “I’m told that plumbers, lawyers and politicians have much more fun at their conferences.”
Not quite what I had in mind when the bond measures said renovate the schools – there may be no heat and the bathrooms are locked, but hey, we can play football on artificial grass.
. . . in two weeks, the school will have a new $7 million athletic stadium to replace the dilapidated one in use since the 1960s.
The stadium features upgraded aluminum bleachers, synthetic grass field, snack bar, scoreboard, field house and wheelchair access. It also features an upgraded parking lot and walkway to the field.
This isn’t Del Rey Oaks or (shudders) Carmel. As long as it is safe, my RV, woodpile or ‘forest’ landscaping is my business..
The folks involved in the beautification hubbub in Pacific Grove are barking up the wrong tree.
I concede the expensive homes around the golf course and many homes around the middle school are well cared for, but walk along the streets that intersect Pine or Lighthouse avenues, or go into the Del Monte Park area. Walk along the sidewalks and see how often you are forced into the street because of branches, bushes, ivy or broken fences. You can’t even get many of these free-spirited, iconoclastic, willy-nilly residents to park legally.
Aren’t the homes near the middle school owned by Canterbury Woods?
Social conditions, however, were changing. Radio entered the scene and could be listened to at home, never mind static on the station. Community events were giving ground to the flapper era. Attendance at the Chautauqua events dwindled. After the 1926 season, the doors closed. . .
. . In 1921, the Boy Scouts of Pacific Grove were assured a home in perpetuity. Chautauqua Hall’s title, however, was signed over to the City of Pacific Grove with instructions to make the building available for purposes other than scouting
Has it become politically incorrect to proudly display the presence of BSA Troop 90? There used to be a Boy Scouts Fleur de Lis symbol on the door.
Giving away our Mvsevm. Worst. Leaders. Ever.
A letter of intent to transfer operation of the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History to a nonprofit foundation was approved 5-2 Wednesday by the City Council.
The letter was endorsed unanimously April 21 by the Pacific Grove Museum Advisory Board and calls for transferring operation of the museum to the nonprofit Museum Foundation of Pacific Grove Inc.
The foundation has proposed a public-private partnership with the city in which the museum building, collection and grounds would be leased to the foundation for a 15-year period starting July 1.
The letter came with a list of add-on proposals, which dissenting council members Carmelita Garcia and Alan Cohan said were too one-sided.
The Handmaiden is sew gone.
Gone To Paris is Gone Too
Over in New Monterey, Nevada Bob packed up and went back to Winnemucca.
One Perpetual Going Out Of Business store maintains is presence for the last two years. Only 26 days left. Do they really mean it?
The other Perpetual Going Out Of Business has not put up any signs stating it yet, but it appears that the landlord knows it already.
Admin was recently sent a postcard about a missing tree or two. But it’s missing the target like so many other things the city aims at. The letter is addressed to “Homeowner” at the intended address. Nice gesture, but the homeowner does not live there.
The ordinance was last reviewed 4½ years ago, said committee Vice Chairman Thom Akeman, and the current version was adopted by the City Council in September 2007.
Resident Georgia Booth, who was issued a tree removal permit and crossed swords with Akeman during his compliance inspection of her property last fall, said she has found two versions of the ordinance online, with strikeouts and additions. Others who attended the committee meeting said they didn’t have computers in their homes and needed printed copies.