Category Archives: Pacific Grove

$7,000,000 High School Football Field Almost Done

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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.

Breaker Stadium 6 Million

. . . 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.

$7,000,000 High School Football Field Almost Done

Ron Russell Vs. Property Rights

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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?

Ron Russell Vs. Property Rights

Chautauqua Hall History

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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.

Chautauqua Hall

Chautauqua Hall History

Council Turns Mvsevm Over To Packards

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Giving away our Mvsevm. Worst. Leaders. Ever.

Mvsevm Speakeasy

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.

Council Turns Mvsevm Over To Packards

April Out Of Business Round Up

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The Handmaiden is sew gone.
Hand Maiden Oob

Gone To Paris is Gone Too
Gone Too

Over in New Monterey, Nevada Bob packed up and went back to Winnemucca.
Nevada Bobs Oob

One Perpetual Going Out Of Business store maintains is presence for the last two years. Only 26 days left. Do they really mean it?
Lane Furniture Still Oob

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.
842 Lighthouse Ave Almost Oob

April Out Of Business Round Up

Tree Ordinance Sent Back To Morons

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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.

Stump Lighthouse Congress

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.

Tree Ordinance Sent Back To Morons

Judge Rules Against Forest Hill Manor

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Forest Hill Manor Matches

Remember when 6 people sued to move into the same cottage? The city won. Must be crowded in that cottage..

The trial court ruled in support of the city on all counts, stating there was “no evidence” the city “fabricated or otherwise arbitrarily imposed conditions on Forest Hill Manor. The use permit provided for the completion of the project as a whole and a requirement that all conditions be satisfied before the issuance of an occupancy permit.”

Judge Rules Against Forest Hill Manor

Sea Lions Take Over Beaches

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Attracting more sharks, no doubt.

As long as the beaches get fenced off to protect them, more and more will keep coming here to give birth. Not unlike dare I say, illegal immigrants.

“As population has grown, they’ve spread out and taken and started using more and more locations around the Monterey Bay Peninsula,” said Jim Watanabe, with Hopkins Marine Station.

Pupping season not only brings more than 300 harbor seals to a 3-mile stretch of shoreline. It brings eager onlookers too.

“I’ve been standing here maybe 20-30 minutes. They’re really fascinating to watch. They’re really cute and their little sounds sound like ‘mom,'” said Sarah Knox, a visitor from Mass.

Sea Lions Take Over Beaches

Giving Away The Mvsevm

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15 years until we get it back as a mvsevum,

Mvsevm Speakeasy

The letter to interim city manager Charlene Wiseman from Jason Burnett, president of the Museum Foundation of Pacific Grove Inc., proposes a public-private partnership between the city and the foundation in which the museum building, collection and grounds would be leased to the foundation for a 15-year period beginning July 1.

Burnett said the foundation believes that the museum “should continue to be a major cultural, educational and productive asset for the citizens of our area and our business community”

Giving Away The Mvsevm