The Herald’s depiction of Pollacci is more of a crime than anything else, because it creates hype and scares people who may not know him.
I knew him, wish I didn’t.
Let not the sins of the son reflect on the goodness of the family.
I have lived in Pacific Grove all my life. I have gone to school with the Pollacci family and attended social events with them. They are a fine, upstanding family.
A fine upstanding family that employed a registered sex offender. Oxymoron.
I remember getting scolded by the cyclist in the Tam O’Shanter hat when I would stray onto the blacktop to shield my kids from the speeding bikes.
This was not passed.
The city council on Wednesday could pass the first reading of an ordinance to make the bike path and trail and multi-use area.
According to the city, members of the Traffic Commission have observed conflicts between pedestrians and bicyclists over who belongs where. The city’s staff reports says there is an “expectation on the part of the bicyclists that the paved portion is exclusive to bicycles when in fact, by custom and practice, this has been a shared use trail.”
With All Of P.G.’s Problems Solved, Council Considers Allowing Walkers On Bike Path
Obama lied.
In two days, sales tax goes up one percent in California to help bring more money to the state. That means depending on the city, taxes will range from 8.25% to 10.25%.
Basically, the tax increases one cent on every dollar you spend. For example, if you want to buy a car that costs $20,000, after April 1, you will have to pay an additional $200 in sales tax.
Most cities in Monterey County will have an 8.25% sales tax. Some exceptions include Salinas where the sales tax will be higher at 8.75% and Pacific Grove at 9.25%. In Santa Cruz County, the city of Santa Cruz has the highest sales tax in the area at 9.5%. In San Benito County, Hollister has a 9.25%, same as nearby Gilroy.
Sales Taxes in the vicinity:
Pacific Grove 9.25%
Pebble Beach8 8.25%
Carmel 8.25%
Monterey 8.25%
Seaside 9.25
Sand City 8.75
Marina 8.25%
Salinas 8.75%
Prundale 8.25%
Normally very vocal and visible, Ron’s Liquor owner David Pollacci, a chairman on the Pacific Grove Chamber Of Commerce is oddly silent in this round of Farmers Market debates.
Known as America’s Last Hometown, Pacific Grove was one of the only towns on the Central Coast without a farmers market until nine months ago. It took the city a lengthy year and a half to open the market because of upset business owners wanting the city to consider another location and some didn’t want the market at all in fear that it would drive customers away. Some local businesses are closing their doors for good saying that the 55 days a year that the street is closed is causing them to lose a significant amount of business and they can no longer afford to keep their doors open.
The farmers market on Lighthouse Avenue really has not grown since it’s beginning. There’s only so much demand for tomatoes or the sparse offerings of P.G. residents. Maybe if we had more chickens in town there would be an egg booth. Solid Fact: There are not many farmers in P.G. It’s a town of vacant vacation homes and people too busy to walk to town every week in search of carrots.
Change the location & change the format and it might take off. Then the cranky downtown store owners would complain that the market is taking away all the shoppers from downtown.
“Pacific Grove on a Monday afternoon before the Farmers Market was empty: parking everywhere, no people on the street, totally dead,” she says. “With the Farmers Market, there are definitely more cars around.”
The subcommittee will meet over the next few months to explore alternative market locations, including the parking lot behind the Holman building (on Lighthouse and Grand Avenue) and the lot below Pepper’s (on Forest Avenue at Lighthouse), Valuch says.
Meanwhile, in an effort to draw more traffic in the typically sluggish chilly season, Peppard wants to invite vendors from all of Monterey County to participate in the “non-certified” (prepared foods and crafts) section of the market.
The new owners of the Steinbeck home presented Snick with the inspiration of the comic. The pedestal where the statue stood for many years is now bare.
“I used to make fun of it because it’s the ugliest piece of crap I’ve ever seen,” Farkas says. “Now it’s something of an icon, and I want to save it.”
In 1994 Farkas, a pop artist who works at a P.G. vacuum store, debuted a comic strip in which the statue is hit by lightning and grows to “hideous proportions” to become the “Colossus of Gold,” who rambles through the coastal town of “Specific Groove” lampooning its public figures. Farkas posts the cartoon at Gene’s Barbershop and www.93950.com/cog, and occasionally performs it at P.G. City Council meetings.
Before
It’s a war between the remaining stores on the fast-becoming-a-ghost-town streets and the creepy-hidden-agenda new world order groups.
Two things are right – downtown merchants are not selling much that residents want, and the farmers market is fairly dull.
While merchants generally spoke in favor of moving the market venue, representatives of Sustainable Pacific Grove spoke in favor of keeping it at its current location.
“We want it on Lighthouse, and we want Lighthouse closed as often as possible,” said Joy Colangelo of Sustainable Pacific Grove, which claims 430 members.
“Foot traffic will increase downtown profitability,” she said. “Downtown businesses are not selling things we want to buy. They’re unwilling to adapt. That’s why they’re going under.”
If Lighthouse is closed to motor vehicle traffic and becomes a pedestrian mall, Colangelo said, “we’d be the jewel of the county — a quaint, walkable city.”
Sustainable Pacific Grove: Restricting Your Right To Travel Is A Good Thing
Let’s all feel sorry..
Pollacci was accompanied to his arraignment Tuesday by defense investigator Richard Lee, who wrote a presentence report in the 1993 case describing Pollacci as a spoiled, self-centered man who was guilty of being presumptuous and using poor judgment, but who did not realize he was having sex without consent. According to the report, Pollacci told Lee that he had come to realize through therapy that he never learned any “boundaries” in his life.
“He says, quite frankly, that he was ‘spoiled’ and has long conducted himself as able to do pretty much whatever he pleases.”
Sexual battery. Sees judge today.
The affidavits list Pollacci’s prior convictions, which include battery in 1985, loitering on private property in 1990 and the two counts of sexual battery in 1993.
That case involved alleged separate rapes of two women, one of whom said she was possibly drugged and awoke to find Pollacci assaulting her.
The woman said Pollacci had brought her home from a first date at Rocky Point Restaurant. She was angry that he’d consumed a considerable amount of alcohol and suggested that he should go home, but he walked her into her apartment.
She told police she got a glass of water and went to her bedroom to change. When she came out she drank some of the water. She awoke the next morning thinking she was having a dream, only to realize it was real.
The second case involved a woman who said Pollacci sexually assaulted her in the parking lot of the Highlands Inn after the two had lunch, also on their first date.
In the butterfly position, no doubt.
The Western Region of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality will hold its annual Western Regional Conference at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove on May 7-10. The conference theme is Sexual Ontogeny: the development of sexuality throughout the lifespan.