Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Ah, So She Wants The Other Dog Dead. And $$

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Olga

Ospina’s suit contends she was denied due process because of the switch from city to state law. It also alleges the hearing officer ignored witnesses’ accounts about which dog attacked. Ospina is seeking attorney’s fees, court costs and unspecified damages.

Her complaint was reviewed in closed session Tuesday by the Pacific Grove City Council. Assistant city attorney Heidi Quinn reported no council action was taken.

Let’s kill every potentially vicious dog that comes to P.G. Keep your mutts at home.

Ah, So She Wants The Other Dog Dead. And $$

Psst! Morrie’s Free Golf Deal Is Off

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Old Grumpy Golfers

A settlement that would have given former Pacific Grove Mayor Morrie Fisher a lifetime discount on playing fees at the city’s municipal golf course has been unanimously rejected by the Pacific Grove City Council.

City Attorney David Laredo brought the settlement, reached through mediation out of court, to the council Nov. 5 and the council appeared receptive at the time. Laredo said both parties agreed that pursuing Fisher’s lawsuit to recover his free golf wasn’t worth the potential expense, and that settlement would allow city officials to concentrate on more pressing business.

Psst! Morrie’s Free Golf Deal Is Off

CheckMate Not Likely Cause Of Illness

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(Santa Cruz Sentinel)

Mothra

Illnesses reported by Monterey Peninsula residents after September’s spraying to combat the light brown apple moth likely weren’t caused by CheckMate products, according to a study released Friday.

Findings released Friday by the Department of Pesticide Regulation suggest that exposure to a high dose of airborne CheckMate microcapsule particles could cause eye, skin or respiratory irritation. But the report said that the application of the product over Monterey County was extremely low, and it is unlikely the low levels could result in health problems.

The application of pheromones that took place was done at rates that fell below the proposed rate of 20 grams of active ingredient per acre, the report states.

CheckMate Not Likely Cause Of Illness

Ruelas Brothers Update – Separate Trials For Alleged Killers

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A memorial bench is at the crime scene.
Olinger Bench Offerings

A judge Thursday ruled there will be separate trials for Soledad brothers charged with the 1997 murder of Monterey High School student Kristopher Olinger, in part because one of the brothers allegedly confessed to the crime.

A jogger found Olinger’s body on the Pacific Grove Recreation Trail on Sept. 19, 1997, the morning after the 17-year-old set out to complete a late-night school photo assignment.

He was beaten and stabbed more than 24 times, and thrown over a cliff along the trail, before he dragged himself back to a turnout where he was found.

Ruelas Brothers Update – Separate Trials For Alleged Killers

Jeffrey Flathers – Legend In His Own Mind

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“Press Release” sent to the Hear-Old:

“The Citizens of Pacific Grove have spoken with a thunderous roar,” thundered the roaring Flathers, a former member of the city’s budget and finance committee. “The people’s demand for a return to common sense in local government spending couldn’t be clearer, and I offer my congratulations to residents for securing this seminal victory for Democracy.”

Each tax measure had about 2000 no votes. Not too thunderous with a population of 15,000.

Kook. Was his own losing bid for PG City Council a “thunderous roar” too?

Jeffrey Flathers – Legend In His Own Mind

Dead Dog Owner Files Lawsuit To Kill Another Dog

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Olga

A TV news anchorwoman has filed a lawsuit against the City of Pacific Grove seeking to overturn a ruling that spared a black Labrador believed to have mauled her Maltese to death in front of the Pacific Grove Post Office in July.

In August, a city-appointed hearing officer decided the Labrador, owned by a Southern California woman, should be permanently banished from the city but not euthanized. The dog was returned to its family. But Olga Ospina wanted a different result. “Please help me, put this dog down” she said at the hearing Aug. 16.

Dogs and their owners, sheeshe.

Dead Dog Owner Files Lawsuit To Kill Another Dog

Colangelo Vows To Punish In Case Of Gay Cop’s Lawsiut

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Pacific Grove’s city manager vowed this week to punish any city employee who harassed, intimidated or discriminated against a gay police officer who has filed a claim with the city alleging such mistreatment.

Police Sgt. Darrin Smolinski filed the claim in August saying fellow officers made jokes and ridiculed him because he is gay. Smolinski also says he was repeatedly turned down for promotions and was retaliated against by a former police chief.

“I want to get the facts,” city manager Jim Colangelo said Monday. “I want to know if these allegations are true. If they are true, there will be consequences for the people involved. We don’t tolerate this type of behavior.”

Colangelo Vows To Punish In Case Of Gay Cop’s Lawsiut

Ex P.G. Mayor Flo Schaefer Dies

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Dingbat Flo, I called her. An outsider that moved in, helped mess things up and moved out. Famous for saying things like “the movie theater will attract undesirable people from Seaside”

Former Pacific Grove Mayor Florence Beckman Schaefer, 81, died Tuesday at her home in Issaquah, Wash., of cancer.

Born Sept. 7, 1926, in Brooklyn, N.Y., she was raised in Buffalo, N.Y., and lived in Whittier from 1960 until she and her husband Jack moved to Pacific Grove in 1986.

Mrs. Schaefer was appointed to the Pacific Grove Architectural Review Board in 1987 by then-Mayor Morris Fisher.

She ran successfully for a two-year City Council term in 1988, and then ran for mayor in 1990, defeating longtime resident and former fire chief Don Gasperson. She again ran for City Council in 1992 and served until she resigned in 1995, pleading health reasons.

Ex P.G. Mayor Flo Schaefer Dies

Tourist Trades Prepare For P.G. Tax Plans

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The cities of Monterey and Pacific Grove are considering an additional room tax to pay for hospitality improvement districts to promote tourism.

Pacific Grove is considering becoming a bureau member in the tourism improvement district formed in January by the county and the Monterey County Convention and Visitors Bureau, and levying an assessment on its visitor accommodation businesses. Those include bed-and-breakfast inns, motels, hotels and conference lodging establishments.

A protest hearing on forming the district has been set for Dec. 5 by the Pacific Grove City Council. A majority protest of businesses that be included in the district would stop its formation.

Wednesday, several business owners told the council that they were willing to join the proposed improvement district if the city did not raise its transient occupancy tax, or room tax.

Check some of the comments left by visitors to P.G. and see what the motels offer . .

Tourist Trades Prepare For P.G. Tax Plans