Before that sales tax increase goes into effect. Is there any place in P.G. to buy something (that’s not ‘art’ or rusty garden decor)?
The sales tax rate in Pacifier Grove will increase by a full percent to 8.25 percent effective Oct. 1, according to the state Board of Equalization. City voters approved the sales tax hike in the June primary election.
According to assistant fire chief Dave Brown, emergency crews were dispatched to the home on Balboa Avenue shortly before 6 p.m. Sept. 18.
“He was doing some painting or plastering,” Brown said. “He was working on top of a ladder and fell off,” landing on a plywood floor.
20 feet high on a ladder? That’s unsafe, next time use a scaffold.
Grasping..
A Soledad man charged in the 1997 slaying of a Peninsula youth told a judge Thursday that his defense has been hampered by the release of evidence by the Pacific Grove Police Department.
(Angel) Ruelas objected Thursday that there was no remedy for him to pursue sanctions against the police department for his inability to have the car tested for his defense.He alleged that the police department and FBI missed some “basic tire impressions” at the scene of the crime.
“What else did they miss?” he said.
J. Worthington going out of business.
The voters passed a sales tax hike. For that to work you need sales.
at 7:20 p.m., an employee at the Save Mart Supermarket, 200 Country Club Center, tried to stop a man who was suspected of taking items without paying for them. The man discharged Mace at the employee, causing irritation to eyes and nose, and got away.
While Salinas beautifies, over here in “historic downtown on the way to 17 Mile Drive”, they pile them on.
According to Salinas senior code enforcement officer Irma Gowin, the crackdown on illegal signs and advertising displays is intended to ensure that businesses comply with the city ban on setting up folding, A-frame signs on sidewalks and public rights-of-way, or hanging advertising displays, such as banners, streamers or balloons. She said the purpose of what she called the “first-ever aggressive enforcement action in city history” targeting illegal advertising was twofold — public safety and removal of blight.
Gowin pointed out that the city was threatened with a lawsuit earlier this year after someone’s car was damaged by a temporary A-frame sign that blew off a median. And, she said businesses are at risk for litigation themselves.
“People are understanding it’s a hazard,” she said.
In addition, she said, the copious advertising has become an eyesore.
Pacific Grove police said a boy reported that a man tried to lure him into a car Wednesday by offering him candy.
The incident happened about 4:30 p.m. near Robert Down School when a man in a blue two-door Honda Civic pulled up alongside the child. The boy ran to the school office and police were called.
Officers said they searched the area but were unable to find the car or the man. The man is described as about 40 years old with black spiked hair and a goatee.
In the guise of being “green,” “modern” and “forward-thinking,” Pacific Grove’s government seems to be promulgating some of the same ideas used in the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. Everything old is “bad,” everything new is “good.” Throw out everything that has been done in the past, ignore long-standing committees and organizations, fire knowledgeable city employees, or force them to leave, and then try to totally remake Pacific Grove’s institutions. The Cultural Revolution was a complete disaster. I hope Pacific Grove doesn’t follow in China’s footsteps.
Sharon Kirsch
Pacific Grove
It’s Sunday. Don’t tick off shoppers that see all the “Open” signs and stop by when you are CLOSED.
Might have been a good Sunday to be open. I found a better store anyway.
