Category Archives: Pacific Grove

No Bail Reduction For Lynne Nicole Feurer

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A judge refused Wednesday to lower the bail for a Seaside High School teacher accused of murdering her elderly male companion.

Visiting Judge Arjuna Saraydarian rejected a bail-reduction motion by the attorney for Lynne Nicole Feurer, 65, who was arrested by Pacific Grove police late last month.

Feurer is accused of killing Joseph Cupita, 81, at the couple’s home May 29. She has been held in jail on $1 million bail since being charged with Cupita’s death.

Defense attorney Frank Dice argued that her bail be lowered, citing her background in the community. He presented several letters from community members who said she is a good person.

Nicole Fuere Court

No Bail Reduction For Lynne Nicole Feurer

Substainable P.G. Will Not Solve #1 Problem

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Letters From The Editor:

Calling P.G. a green town is admirable, but this will not build up businesses. Most people simply don’t care, and are shopping for a bargain or an exceptional piece of art. Don’t wish for a tourist town. Wish for a town tourists enjoy visiting, a place that reminds them of a place long forgotten.

Say it louder. Cater to and take care of the locals and the tourists will want to be part of it. Take care of just the tourists and you lose the locals that may carry you through off season times.

Substainable PG Will Not Solve #1 Problem

A Beauty College Downtown?

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Lighthouse Cinema

Developer Robert Enea is now considering bringing a Paul Mitchell School to the old Lighthouse Cinema, where projectors were shut off in September.

City Manager Colangelo said he’d prefer to see the spot go to a retailer that will generate sales tax for the city. The only revenue the city would get from a cosmetology school would be from “students spending money here and patrons coming in to get beautified,” he said.

What happened to the discount liquor store idea? What about an Outback Steakhouse? Bring some REAL revenue. Or are there too many mediocre PG merchants that cannot even match the service of a formula chain establishment brown nosing the council these days?

A Beauty College Downtown?

Empty Headed Eco-Nuts – Sustainable P.G.

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I’m all for common sense to reduce waste, but this crap is ridiculous. This sounds like hippies that sold to the man out are back, and now they are broke and looking for handouts, or at least a reason to not find real work. “Dude, lets grow organic herbs and sell them, like, to the hardware store for some nails”. “Yah, man – we can also have a fashion show with garbage. We can get a far out grant from the city and score some bud, man.”

Hippies

From the website.

Are you having a gathering where you want to use biodegradable food service items? Want to spread the word on how to help organizations become more sustainable?
Click here to see a page of sources for biodegradable goods.
http://www.sustainablepg.org/green/bio_goods.php

That source contains NOTHING LOCAL. Links to buy stuff from sustainable Cleveland. Aint that stupid?

Got a lot of time on your hands and don’t want to use modern disinfectants or cleaners? They recommend solving world problems with vinegar. Does not work.

Then lets change some more. After a few tokes they come up with this fantasy:

Residents walk throughout town finding the goods they need and new stores open to showcase locally manufactured products. A local bike store houses a bike-lending library, and citizens ride scooters and bikes down our roads. A tool-lending library and a fix-it shop opens to allow residents to share tools and knowledge.

Problem is, the town does not cater to residents. This stuff is useless to tourists and generates little to no tax revenue. To really sustain, you need money. Unless we move toward living in communes . . .

Waco Utopia

More Fantasies:

Rail, transit expansion, bicycle and walking,
Speed limit reduction, self limitation of non-essential driving

Hah! “limitation of non-essential driving” They want to take away your driving privileges.

Telecommuting, compressed work week, worker relocation closer to job sites.

Workers in PG cannot afford to live here. Will they set up tents in the “open spaces” like street medians?

More . . some of the group’s ideas include

A green job corps, in which high school students could learn skills such as converting businesses or houses to solar energy

Solar in PG? Named the foggiest town in America.

Growing community gardens and selling the produce at a weekly farmers market now in the works

Let’s not pay income or sales taxes.

Creating a local mutual fund with money going to community projects.

Where does they money come from? Compost Sales?

Widening bike lanes and bringing electric bikes to town

Electric bikes. Ooh, more wasteful energy. Streets in PG are too narrow to share – so see the part about taking our cars away.

Reclaiming common spaces, such as traffic medians, for community art projects and gardens.

Or tents for the people that have to live closer to their minimum wage jobs.

Holding community-building events such as a soup night or projecting movies against a building

Ooo boy. Yah, let’s all gather for showings of “Loose Change” and other leftist propaganda. Don’t drink the kool aide.

Jim Jones Kool Aid

Someone tell me this is all a joke.

Empty Headed Eco-Nuts – Sustainable PG

Business Group Wants To Sell Town’s Soul

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When people near and far imagine Pacific Grove, there isn’t necessarily one image that comes to mind. And that’s a concern to business owners who want to draw more visitors and boost sales in America’s Last Hometown.

Another issue that came up repeatedly was the fact that the Monterey County Convention and Visitors Bureau no longer promotes Pacific Grove.

Nancy Holland, owner of Reincarnation Vintage Clothing in Pacific Grove, said she went to the bureau’s kiosk at El Estero on Sunday to investigate because she hadn’t heard a single foreign accent in her shop this summer.

She asked the person behind the counter whether there were any “cute little antique shops in Pacific Grove.”

“She goes, ‘I’m sorry. They don’t want to participate. I can’t tell you anything. I’ll tell you how to get to the border (of Pacific Grove),'” Holland said, adding, “Talking about these idea are all well and good, but if people don’t come here, we’re going to die.”

It these businesses sold something people wanted in the first place, they would be found.

When I tell business associates that I live in Pacific Grove, the image is one of beaches and hotels, not antique stores or even restaurants. Tourists come to P.G. for a quiet hotel room, and then go to Carmel or Monterey to vacation. Give P.G. back to the locals. Or pimp the town and build a casino or music hall.

Business Group Wants To Sell Town’s Soul

Budget In Downward Spiral, Here Comes Tax Hikes

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Results of the city-commissioned telephone survey, presented at Wednesday’s meeting, found that 35 percent of those polled opposed a tax increase, 47 percent would support a tax increase for essential city services and 13 percent wanted more information.

Under consideration for increases are the city’s transient occupancy tax, business licenses, property transfer fees and sales taxes. The council is considering implementing a parcel tax. Such measures would need a simple majority — or 50 percent of votes cast plus one — to pass.

Someone called this a majority favored a tax increase.

47% for
48% not for

Tell me the pollsters are not current or former city employees in charge of the budget.

Budget In Downward Spiral, Here Comes Tax Hikes

Oceans 18 Mini Golf Owner Arrested for Child Molesting

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UPDATE
Stamm allegedly molested a 14 year old boy. From the Hear-Old on 6/21.

Prosecutors are charging a Pacific Grove youth baseball manager with 10 felony counts involving alleged sexual acts against a 14-year-old boy about seven years ago.

Original story, from the Clownafornian on the 19th.

Police said they arrested David Russell Stamm, 45, who is charged with four counts of lewd acts with a minor, stemming from a recent complaint from an undisclosed person.

Stamm was arrested Monday following a sting operation conducted by Pacific Grove police detectives.

Stamm is the owner of Oceans 18 Mini Golf in the American Tin Cannery building, and Cages in Monterey.

Mini Golf Oceans18

Is this related in any way to another recent PG child molester arrest? See article on Sunny Kavil from 5/25, also arrested for child molesting, he was reported as working “at the American Tin Cannery”.

Also reported in the Hear-Old:

David Russell Stamm, 45, of Pacific Grove was arrested Monday with four counts of lewd acts with a minor that police say took place in 2000 and 2001.

David Stamm

Oceans 18 Mini Golf Owner Arrested for Child Molesting

Mysterious Beings Vandalize Golf Course

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“It’s generally a cart or a truck doing donuts. This is pretty weird because it’s obviously not a vehicle,” police Cmdr. Tom Uretzky said. “It’s just a bunch of holes.”

Golf course Superintendent Mike Leach called it the worst vandalism he’s seen.

“Someone has physically just beaten the heck out of a $30,000 green,” he said. “It was as if someone took a roto-tiller to (it).”

Pacific Grove’s golf course and several others, including the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, were also the target of pranksters six weeks ago, but those capers weren’t nearly as damaging as Monday night’s big dig, Leach said.

Just a bunch of holes? Three words, Punk Mutant Gophers

Punk Gophers

Mysterious Beings Vandalize Golf Course

AOPs Sue Over Occupancy Permits at Forest Hill Manor

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An attorney with Forest Hill Manor said she is preparing to sue the City of Pacific Grove over its refusal to issue a permit that would allow senior residents to move into newly constructed cottages.

The litigation would raise the stakes in Forest Hill’s ongoing battle with the city, which won’t issue an occupancy permit for the cottages at Fountain and Gibson until another project at Forest Hill, which includes new apartments, is completed.

“Construction of the entire project, and compliance with the use permit and all conditions of approval must be completed before the project can be deemed final and occupancy granted,” wrote assistant city attorney Heidi Quinn in an April 30 letter to Forest Hill’s attorney.

Allowing the cottages to be occupied before the rest of the project is finished would violate terms of the city’s use permit, Quinn contends.

Forest Hill Manor

Well, if they read the fine print as detailed as they write the claims for damages, the problem is obvious. Or is there some big love-in over at apartment B11?

We got 6 people here suing to live in apartment B11. (pointed out by Scott Miller)

Claim 2E

Forest Hill Manor 2e

Claim 2F

Forest Hill Manor 2f

Claim 2G

Forest Hill Manor 2g

Claim 2H

Forest Hill Manor 2h

Claim 2I

Forest Hill Manor 2i

Claim 2J

Forest Hill Manor 2j

They have 2 homes and cannot move into one, and it is causing mental stress. Oh how my heart bleeds (NOT).

AOPs Sue Over Occupancy Permits at Forest Hill Manor

Pet Chickens In P.G?

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I’m pro-chicken and I VOTE.

Put it to the test, I asked several candidates where they stood on chickens, after a teen’s pet chickens were suspiciously killed after an AOP (angry old person) protested the kid’s pets.

The Pacific Grove City Council is scheduled to decide at its 6 p.m. meeting today whether to allow a resident to keep two chickens in his yard.

Retired biologist John Pearse of 183 Ocean View Blvd. would like to have the chickens for their eggs and their ability to produce fertilizer, recycle kitchen scraps and eliminate insects from his garden, he wrote in a letter to the city.

Update – The chickens were approved.

Pet Chickens In P.G?