Category Archives: Pacific Grove

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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Nicole Feurer Joseph Cupita

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

Marine Mammals, Birds Affected by Algae Bloom

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Large blooms of algae in Monterey Bay are releasing a toxin that has apparently been poisoning large numbers of marine mammals and birds.

Blooms of the algae produce a neurotoxin called domoic acid, said Tim Stephens of the University of California-Santa Cruz, whose scientists report that the blooms which first appeared in Southern California earlier this spring are now occurring along the Central Coast.

Researchers have detected high levels of the toxin in the bay, he said, and large numbers of dead seabirds, as well as sea lions with symptoms of domoic acid poisoning, have been turning up on Monterey Bay beaches.

“The impact on marine life depends on how much of the toxin gets into the food web,” said Raphael Kudela, associate professor of ocean sciences at UC-Santa Cruz. “But in terms of toxin production and the size of the bloom, this event is similar to the large blooms we saw in Monterey Bay in 2000 and 2002.”

Serious – nature does things that appear cruel.
Silly – maybe Round-Up herbicide in the ocean would kill the algae.

Marine Mammals, Birds Affected by Algae Bloom

Willoughby Whines Over Property Use

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First the tidepools, now the streets where we live

From the Council Agenda

B. Consider Claim for Damages No. L2007-05 ~ J. W. Willoughby

Council will consider a claim from an injured party and determine whether to approve the claim or deny and refer the matter back to staff. If the claim is denied as recommended, the claimant will have six (6) months to file legal action.

Reference: Executive Assistant Kirchhofer
Recommended Action: Deny and Refer the Claim to Staff

Willoughbys View

The yard. Looks like a happy PG family lives here. Nothing like the life endangering, environment threatening situation Willoughby cries about.Willoughbys View 2

Willoughby goes on to whine about a vacant lot that has a boat on a trailer parked there, and the home next door that may not be in “open house” condition, lowering the property values
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Would having fringe kooks in the neighborhood that may sue you for anything you do that does not agree with him also lower your property values?

Willoughby Whines Over Property Use

P.G. Chamber Of Commerce, What’s Your Job?

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By 7:30 a.m., however, Moe Ammar, president of the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce, was already fielding phone calls from Measure A supporters wondering why news reports said the rally would take place at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History.

Pacific Grove forbids political events in city facilities, let alone campaign signs on city property. City Manager Jim Colangelo said group events at the museum are supposed to benefit the facility.

Ammar, a 20-year resident of Pacific Grove, knows well the local rules. He said a news release announcing Thursday’s event apparently was misinterpreted. The rally was planned for the sidewalk in front of the museum — a public location perfectly acceptable for the event.

Measure A or no measure A, PG is not going to be growing much, given the degree of build out. But really, this should not be the PG Chamber’s focus.

Anyway, that unaccredited announcement was in the same paper reporting this story. It looks very much like the protest was going to be at the Mvsevm.

Campaigning At The Mvsevm

P.G. Chamber Of Commerce, What’s Your Job?

Art Galleries Go Dry

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Wino Drunk Joseph Minton

A ban on serving wine during a regular showcase of Pacific Grove art galleries has uncorked spirited protests in the once-dry town.

Back at his art gallery, Robert Lewis said the wine caper is just a symptom of a greater problem: The city doesn’t have a clear vision for itself.

Hah! Chug some wine and wander in the fog – no one has a clear vision.

Art Galleries Go Dry