Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Fire Department Merger Being Considered

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Three cities on the Monterey Peninsula are one step closer to a merger that could save them a collective $1.3 million a year.

The cities of Pacific Grove, Carmel and Monterey are all considering consolidating their fire departments into one.

The cities combined currently spend more than $3.5 million each year on firefighting. But if the three departments merged, the cost for fire protection would drop to around $2.2 million total, the company reviewing the plan said.

About time. Just put more resource at the worker level and eliminate some administration.

Fire Department Merger Being Considered

Farmers Market? With All These Empty Storefronts?

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Letter From The Editor in the Hear-Old:

Why would Pacific Grove want to have a farmers market when it has Grove Market?

In an easy walk around a few blocks, shoppers can find fresh produce, a butcher shop, farmer’s bread, clothing shops, antiques, art galleries, card shops, stationery, cleaners, paints, banks, health food and the best hardware store and post office on the Central Coast.

I bet Monterey residents would love to take a short bus ride with their shopping bags to shop in a town that provides the basic necessities for locals.

It’s obvious that Barbara bAss Evans rides the short bus. None of those businesses are open in the early evening when working people shop.

Farmers Market? With All These Empty Storefronts?

The Dilworth Phenomenon

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The San Francisco Chronicle printed side-by-side pictures this week of two prominent Monterey Peninsula residents.

On the right was Clint Eastwood, an international movie star, Oscar-winning director, conservationist, philanthropist, former Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, land owner, developer, partner in the Pebble Beach Co., and one of the driving forces behind that company’s plan to eliminate potential homesites in Del Monte Forest while building a new golf course and hotel rooms.

On the left was David Dilworth, a high school graduate whose personal accomplishments wouldn’t fill a postage stamp.

Last weekend, the Herald even bestowed an advanced education on Dilworth, calling him an “environmental biologist.” Never mind that he doesn’t actually have so much as a bachelor’s degree in any scientific field.

What Dilworth does have is a lot of opinions and a lot of free time on his hands.

Attention Whore.

The Dilworth Phenomenon

P.G. Making Plans For A Farmers Market

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Before the City Council proceeds, a June 21 meeting will be held to hash out details, including the location and schedule for a market, said City Manager Jim Colangelo.

Colangelo said if merchants’ concerns can be resolved, a farmers market would be a positive note for downtown, where sales tax revenues have been flat in recent months.

“It’s not a crisis situation,” Colangelo said. “But we’re just concerned that we’re not seeing the type of business that we used to.”

You hit the nail on the head, Jimmy. Locals have quit shopping in downtown P.G. ever since the Carmel crowd moved in. Farmer’s Markets tend to be local centric. And none of the shops that oppose one are ever open when they take place anyway.

P.G. Making Plans For A Farmers Market

Lynn Nicole Feurer Claims Domestic Abuse

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A Seaside High School teacher arrested on suspicion of murdering her longtime partner said she was the victim of constant domestic abuse and was defending herself at the time of his death, a police report says.

Lynn Nicole Feurer said she recalled wrestling with Cupita and being on top of him on a bed on the second floor of their apartment on the 300 block of Eighth Street in Pacific Grove, the report says.

At one point during the fight, Feurer told Uretsky, Cupita stopped fighting — or moving at all, the document states.

Lynn Nicole Feurer Claims Domestic Abuse

P.G. Woman Accused Of Slaying Spouse

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Pacific Grove police arrested a longtime Seaside High School teacher Tuesday in connection with the city’s first homicide since 2002.

Lynne Nicole Feurer, 65, known to friends and neighbors as Nicole, was arrested on homicide charges about 10:30 a.m. after officers found 81-year-old Joseph Francis Cupita dead in a duplex shared by the two in the 300 block of Eighth Street.

Feurer was first picked up by Monterey police at the London Bridge Pub near Wharf No. 2, after she reportedly told a visiting newlywed she killed her husband, said bartender Jason Wallace, who was on duty that night.

P.G. Woman Accused Of Slaying Spouse

P.G. Woman Arrested in Carmel Fraud

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A Pacific Grove resident was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of using a stolen credit card to purchase almost $300 of goods from the Long’s Drugs in Carmel.

Police said Lorien Lee Weaver, 30, of Pacific Grove, bought $292.89 worth of a digital camera, miscellaneous cosmetics, clothing and other items at the store in the Crossroads Shopping Center.

Odd is that this was only reported in the Salinas Clownifornian.

P.G. Woman Arrested in Carmel Fraud

Visitors Get Tagged To Learn About Their Migration

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The Ventana Wildlife Society is petitioning the city of Pacific Grove to help it learn more about monarch butterflies.

The group is asking the City Council for a letter of support that would help it get grant money to start a monarch habitat restoration project.

Aw, you thought they were studying the migration habits of tourists, huh?

Visitors Get Tagged To Learn About Their Migration

P.G. Fees To Rise

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Plan to spend more money to play golf, remove a tree or park at Lovers Point in Pacific Grove this coming year.

Along with increasing fees, the city will not fill open vacancies in the police and recreation departments in an effort to help balance the 2007-08 budget.

Cost reductions|
· Eliminate a fire chief position and contract with Monterey for incident command services instead.

· Keep the museum director position open for half of the year and hire a part-time employee at a quarter of the director’s annual salary. The current director, Paul Finnegan, has said he will retire in December.

· Keep vacant two police officer and one recreation department office assistant positions.

· Eliminate a $10,000 contract to check remodeling/building permits.

New revenue|

· Contract to provide additional fire management services for Carmel.

· Implement a new $200 tree removal/trimming permit application fee.

· Increase golf course fees.

· Modify the golf clubhouse use permit to allow for private parties and meetings.

· Increase rents from recreation facilities and parks.

· Raise $60,000 through the museum, potentially by charging admission.

· Install parking meters at Lovers Point and Central and Eardley avenues.

P.G. Fees To Rise