Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Erik Cushman’s Predisposition For Strong Whiskey And Multiple DUI Arrests

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Things even the Squid would not write about.

What a doofus for trying to drive when intoxicated – while serving five years’ probation from the last DUI conviction.

Erik Cushman DUI Arrest

Pacific Grove police arrested Monterey County Weekly publisher Erik Cushman July 28 for drunken driving and violating his probation from an earlier DUI conviction, which includes a requirement that he not drive if he has any alcohol in his blood.
The arrest happened as Cushman, 46, was on his way home from a Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce dinner where he accepted a Business Excellence Award for his newspaper in the Media and Marketing category

Cushman, who in a recent interview for the  California Newspaper Publishers Association’s newsletter said his qualifications to be a newspaper publisher included his “predisposition for foul language and strong whiskey,” was arrested for his first DUI on May 30, 2009,

Erik Cushman’s Predisposition For Strong Whiskey And Multiple DUI Arrests

New Mvsevm Director Hired From Arkansas

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Replace the whale with a razorback, present an exhibit on the Boggy Creek Monster and hold an assembly on the tradition of chocolate gravy.

Mvsevm with Hog

The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History announced the hiring of its new executive director, Rachel Miller.
For the past seven years, Miller has worked as executive director for the Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas.

New Mvsevm Director Hired From Arkansas

P.G. Police Chief’s WFH Reason REVEALED

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It’s been months since chief Madelone has been in the station. Plus is the Forest Hill Safeway store being turned into housing? And raccoons.

Check out the latest “What’s The Plan” podcast, it makes that long commute from Marina to Pacific Grove go by faster.

WTP

P.G. Police Chief’s WFH Reason REVEALED

 

Pacific Grove Pedestrians Could Regain Walking Capacity If City Approves New Parklet Plans

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Depiction is very different from the fenced in donkey corrals with strings of lights and patio heaters. BUT LOOK AT THAT SIDEWALK!!

New Sidwalk Seatiing

Parklet problems continue in Pacific Grove. The city is pushing back discussions to next week on the future of three parklets on a busy road in Pacific Grove. The main reason for the changes is safety.

“Safety wins over seating,” said Frank Syster who lives in Pacific Grove.

“I think it’s great to have a pedestrian-oriented city, and I think this just makes us more pedestrian, which is great,” said Dea Greenwalt who lives in Pacific Grove.

Pacific Grove Pedestrians Could Regain Walking Capacity If City Approves New Parklet Plans

P.G. Parklet Redesign

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Parklett Parking

Wait, the taxpayers bear the cost of this? No no no. The businesses that are using what was parking spaces need to pay for it.

The new dining area proposal — which could cost taxpayers $250,000 — would route pedestrians on the extended sidewalk around the dining area and toward the street. That configuration, the subcommittee said, would offer more room for pedestrians, including disabled people.

Whatever the council decides next week, members will likely discuss the demolition of Victorian Corner parklet, which is not compliant with a new state law — Assembly Bill 413 — that went into effect Jan. I. T

Another rule that is needed, the spaces need to be occupied more than 3 hours a day 5 days a week. Pointing at you Spotted Duck. Parklet space sits unused until 5 pm except Monday and Tuesday when it’s empty all day.

Spotty Duck Parklet

P.G. Parklet Redesign

Golf Course Grill Operator Charged With Defrauding Government Of $4 Million

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Aqua Terra operated the Point Pinos Gill at the PG Golf Course. No stranger to getting free money from the government, they got $100,000 in back rent there forgiven by the city in 2011.

Monterey caterer Dory Lindsay Ford has been charged with defrauding the government out of $4 million in COVID-relief funds the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern California District announced.

A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Ford with various crimes including bank fraud, three counts of wire fraud, and two counts of money laundering, according to a press release from the Northern District of California.

Ford, 57, of Monterey, operated Aqua Terra Culinary, Inc.,

indictment  alleges that Ford used the COVID-19 loan and grant money to purchase real estate properties in the country of Belize, to invest in the stock market, and to fund a different business venture instead of using the loan money for proper expenses, such as payroll costs, rent or mortgage payments, and supplies.

Golf Course Grill Operator Charged With Defrauding Government Of $4M

Ben Harvey Takes Job In Ojai

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Sounds like a demotion but hey, it’s closer to Long Beach.

Young And Sick - Ojai

Young & Sick

Harvey’s base salary will be $250,000 a year. If Harvey moves to Ojai or within a 10- mile radius, the city will reimburse his moving and relocation expenses. If he requires temporary rental housing before purchasing a home, he will receive a housing allowance of up to $5,000 per month for up to six months beginning Feb. 1.

Ben Harvey Takes Job In Ojai

Bruce Doneux Appointed To DEI

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DEI now has two people to not show up for any meetings. How’s that for “screwed up”?

Peake appointed Bruce Doneux, a 76-year-old massage therapist who’s lived in Pacific Grove for four decades, to the task force, and Kim Bui, the DEI’s current chair.

At a PGUSD board meeting last October, Doneux told trustees that racial bias in Pacific Grove should be addressed by White people “getting together and figuring out why we’re so screwed up,” before he promoted a local group called Whites for Racial Equity,

Bruce Doneux Appointed To DEI