A Danville developer has submitted plans and a lease to the city for the Old Bathhouse property at Lovers Point, City Manager Jim Colangelo said Wednesday.
The City Council will consider Robert Enea’s proposal in closed session during its Aug. 1 meeting. Enea said he wants to remodel the building and bring in a new restaurant.
Think Chili Dogs (3/2/07). . .
Investigators with the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control helped Pacific Grove police nab two people for selling alcohol to minors on Thursday.
Underage decoys attempted to buy alcohol at 11 separate retail licensees in Pacific Grove that day.
Our founding fathers would be spinning in their grave . .
“Justin William Linn was last seen on Tuesday morning by a family member and has not been heard from since,” said police Sgt. D.C White. “Linn is extremely depressed and has expressed the intention to end his life.”
Police said Linn is about 5-feet 9-inches tall, weighs 155 pounds, with short blond hair and blue eyes.
He drives a Silver 2003 Subaru Legacy with tinted windows and a surfboard inside the vehicle.
He is an avid surfer and often travels up and down the coast to surf.
Police are asking the public for help in finding Linn. Anyone with information should call their local police department, the California Highway Patrol or the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office.
Opinions of Pacific Grove residents and business owners were all over the map at a standing-room-only meeting late Wednesday, as the City Council considered whether to put a tax increase measure on the November ballot.
City Manager Jim Colangelo recommended that the council support a 1 percent sales tax increase that would generate $1.3 million annually and would end after five years. The increase would raise the city’s sales tax to 8.25 percent, the highest in Monterey County.
Several hoteliers who spoke are part of Citizens for Responsible Government, a group that opposes tax increases.
Citizens for Responsible Government? These are the motel owners that inflate the room rates to the maximum and require 3 night stays. Not that I’m saying they can’t be citizens too.
Tourists are stupid – they wouldn’t know the difference and just keep paying more for the phony charm.
A caller apparently called the victim and identified himself as a merchant banker for First Caribbean Bank. He told the victim he had won a Publisher Clearinghouse-type sweepstakes, according to police commander Thomas Uretsky.
The solicitor advised the victim to send $2,900 to an address in Texas to pay for the excise taxes on the winnings.
victims are asked to call a phone number with a three-digit area code to collect a prize and the victim assumes they are making a domestic long-distance call. But when making the call, they are connected to a number outside the United States and are charged international call rates.
Uh huh. Send $2900 and call an overseas toll number. Don’t ever believe anyone saying you will win money if you send them yours . . .
On Monday, the phones at Monterey Peninsula Reservations were busy with visitors seeking last-minute rooms. The few rooms available were mostly because of cancellations, said owner Donna Ibens.
Two-night minimums are pretty standard, he said, and rates climb as demand increases. So while the county’s average room rate in December and January was $129, the July and August rate average last year reached $180.
“The prices are scaring people a bit,” said Ibens. “I’ve had a lot of calls and they don’t want to pay $300 a night.”
The least expensive rooms were $250 a night in Pacific Grove and Carmel, said Ibens.
These are the hotels opposing a tax hike? $500 to stay in PG for two nights? Ow!
Vanessa writes to the Hear-Old:
“Why would I shop at a Pacific Grove farmers market when I can find fresh produce at Grove Market
Why would I shop at a cavernous hardware store when I can walk into P.G. Hardware
Why would I shop at an enormous office supply chain when Alpha Stationery
There are so many reasons to live and shop in Pacific Grove, many of them that feed my soul and reassure me of the decision we made 32 years ago to make this our home forever.”
Well Vanessa, some people have to work and don’t have a lot of time to dodge the tourists or find parking downtown. Biggest factor is that the streets once again roll up at 7:00PM and none of those stores are open when working people come home to PG.
At midnight today, Albertsons in Pacific Grove, Sand City, Capitola and Salinas on South Main Street will close for conversion. They will reopen at 6 a.m. Wednesday.
Save Mart, which opened its first store in 1952 in Modesto, has 252 stores today, including Food Maxx, Albertsons and S-Mart Foods outlets. So far, it has converted 34 Albertsons to Save Mart stores, most recently in the Sacramento area.
Alpha-Beta, Lucky, Albertsons and now Save Mart.
Was there today – the are getting ready for the rebranding. Lots of SM logos on the walls. The checkers should wear leather aprons.
Since they are closing for 2 days, lots of stuff was on sale – meats in particular. Other stuff was scarce, like breads. Dare I say that the bread aisle looked like Safeway, empty on Sundays.
Hope they don’t lose the Groove in the receipt
UPDATE! They lost the Groove. Awww nuts! Not even a ‘Grove’.
An investigation started when Pacific Grove police arrested Stamm after the victim — now an adult — came forward.
Neighbors said they were not surprised when they learned that Stamm was arrested on suspicion of felony child molestation.
Eight of the counts allege lewd or lascivious acts; one count involves oral copulation with a minor.
Another count charges Stamm with dissuading a witness.
The Pacific Grove group that saved one of the monarch butterfly’s favorite West Coast haunts is undergoing a metamorphosis of its own.
Friends of the Monarchs may soon dissolve, because it has become a challenge to attract board members and keep volunteer levels up, group leaders said.
If you can’t collect enough people to be on the board of the symbolic butterfly, how would we ever amass enough people to collect enough compost to be sustainable?