(KTVU TV News)
State officials say they’ve found no conclusive link between the hundreds of illnesses reported by Central Coast residents and the pesticide sprayed on their communities last year to combat a crop-eating moth.
Residents of Santa Cruz and Monterey counties complained of feeling sick after agricultural authorities sprayed residential areas last fall to combat the invasive light brown apple moth.
Score one for the lions. Writer never saw one.
Last month, a Pacific Grove police officer on patrol spotted a lion just after midnight on Sunset Avenue near Congress Avenue, said Animal Control Officer Elizabeth Yeo of the city’s police department.
The animal was crossing Sunset, “stopped and looked and took off,” she said.
Hence my stakeout. It was part of my research to find out if the reports meant more mountain lions were wandering onto the Peninsula. Might the sight of the stealthy carnivores that are at the top of their food chain become more routine near our urban homes?
The noisy runners will be slogging along Ocean View at 7am, November 9. It’s not in Big Sur, its not an entire marathon – it’s over quick, so it’s the Not Big Sur Half Fast Marathon..
The sixth annual presentation of the Big Sur Half Marathon will take place on Sunday, Nov. 9, drawing both elite runners and recreational enthusiasts to compete in a variety of running and walking events.
Set along the scenic Monterey Bay coastline, the 13.1 mile race travels a gently rolling loop course from historic downtown Monterey through Cannery Row, along the Pacific Grove coastline and back to the start.
Don’t Count On Sleeping In Sunday – Time For The Not Big Sur Half-Fast Marathon
Vinther is suing for $36,000, plus unspecified losses due to his expending “significant time and funds to determine the clock is a reproduction, not a genuine antique,” according to the suit.
Though the clock appeared new, Vinther’s lawsuit claims Agha told him it looked that way because it had been refinished. “Defendant’s clock was not a genuine antique, but was a contemporary reproduction,” according to the suit. “The clock appeared new because it was newly made, and was not an antique.”
Must have been the battery that gave it away..
IN A lawsuit that seeks to set a new precedent for damages, a local news anchorwoman is suing the owner of a Labrador for emotional distress after the dog mauled her Maltese last year in front of the Pacific Grove post office.
. . Ospina is also seeking something California courts haven’t awarded before. She wants money for “severe emotional distress” she claims she suffered as a result of her dog being attacked.
Heretofore, “the law limits emotional distress damages to being in the presence of a close human relative who gets injured,” said Ospina’s Monterey attorney, Chuck Warner. “This is unique.”
Courts in most states, including California, view pets as personal property and limit compensation to the fair market value of the pet — including the pedigree of the animal, the purchase price and other criteria.
Noted a year ago – she want’s the other dog dead AND money, money, money
What, no chili dogs?
The 60-year-old Bath House perches on some of Pacific Grove’s best oceanside real estate– but the building has been vacant since 2005, when the previous tenant folded under financial troubles.
On Oct. 23, the P.G. Planning Commission approved a permit to improve the landmark and its surroundings at Lovers Point Park. Enea Properties LLC and the city of P.G. plan to remodel and build additions to the Bath House, bring the building into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and demolish the shabby restrooms next door.
Those shabby restrooms were repaired for thousands of dollars after a fire in the cinderblock building. Money well spent. The building never was a bath house. It’s always been a restaurant.
According to his campaign finance disclosure form filed Oct. 18, Hollister, a retired veterinarian, has received $3,432 in contributions from 19 supporters and made himself a $500 campaign loan. He has spent $1,861.
Cort, the only mayoral candidate listed on the municipal ballot, reported no expenditures and has financed his campaign through a $14,500 self-loan.
· Richard Ahart, $1,355 in cash donated by seven contributors ranging from $20 to $100 each, and a $5,200 self-loan, with expenditures of $5,204.
· Deborah Lindsey, $3,137 in cash, $1,084 in nonmonetary contributions, and expenditures of $5,963.
· Susan Goldbeck, $3,300, including a loan to herself of $925, and expenditures of $2,537.
· Carmelita Garcia, $4,893, including a $200 loan to herself, and $82 in nonmonetary contributions, and expenditures of $5,237.
· Bill Kampe reported $6,578 in contributions, including a $2,000 loan to himself, and expenditures of $3,940.
· Daniel Miller reported a self-loan of $5,753 and contributions of $730 for a total of $6,582, and expenditures of $2,738.
· Ken Cuneo and David Dilworth reported no contributions. Cuneo stated his campaign is entirely self-funded.
No one contributed to Dilworth. ha ha.
Of special concern in the Monterey Bay area is humans and domestic animals coming in close contact with raccoons. Besides the fact that raccoons in urban or suburban areas tend to be aggressive and can attack pets and people, they are also carriers of the roundworm parasite called Baylisascaris procyonis.
Raccoons become infected with this roundworm either by ingesting infective eggs from contaminated feces of other raccoons, or by eating infected small animals (rabbits, rodents and birds). Raccoons are asymptomatic carriers, which means that the parasite typically doesn’t cause them any problems, but they shed eggs in their feces which become infective to other animals three to four weeks after they are excreted.
Cover your garbage!
Sea-Breeze Motel
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“My client would like an independent evaluator,” she said. “She sees Dr. Fithian and Dr. Finnberg fairly often, and with a split decision, I’m uncomfortable with Dr. Fithian going back again.” (When ordered by the court, the $325 to $500 experts receive for the evaluations is provided by taxpayers.)
She sees both of the these “doctors” often and they do not agree on the woman’s mental health?
Have that third doctor examine the first two doctors while we are at it. Are they fit to prescribe drugs?
