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Chief Cathy Madalone, 55, told The Pine Cone last October that she was given a special accommodation, in lieu of a full leave of absence, to work from home based on “physician recommendations and city policy.” Madalone has declined to say how or when she was injured and started working from home but has called the arrangement “temporary.” This week, though, Pacific Grove’s new city manager, Matt Mogensen, told The Pine Cone Madalone is not working.
Ump was even on Megan’s List, the easiest, free background check there is.
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The President of Pacific Grove Pony Baseball and Softball announced that recently, a registered sex offender umpired at least three games for them.
“Unfortunately, our umpire contractor, Peninsula Sports Incorporated (PSI), employed an umpire that was a registered sex offender listed on California’s Meghan’s Law website,” said Paul Black, President of Pacific Grove Pony Baseball and Softball, in an email to families.
Instead of compliance with the feet-from-corner law to make street crossings safe for pedestrians, let’s take away the crosswalk. I see people still crossing the street on the faded crosswalk.
Heard that she left her key on the desk and departed. Later quits via an email and heads for Maine.
Jenny MacMurdo, 44, who took over the chamber in January 2022, decided to resign this week.
MacMurdo’s departure comes at an unfortunate time, considering the city’s biggest event of the year, the Good Old Days Street fair on May 4-5, is only two weeks away.
However, the chamber said that Metzner who has been the lead director for Good Old Days is well suited to fill in until a permanent president is selected.
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Liz Jacobs, owner of Wild Fish on Lighthouse Avenue, leads the city-sanctioned downtown Business Improvement District board, or BID, which holds marketing events to draw more people to P.G. But Jacobs, the chair of the board, has not remitted business license tax for the restaurant at 545 Lighthouse for two fiscal years — even though the group she heads pays for its programs with the same tax dollars.
OK, delinquent taxes, no business license. How are they on health department inspections or payroll deductions? Place is starting to resemble a grease fire of infractions.
Oh. Wild Fish Has No Business License In Addition To Unpaid Taxes
Parklet gadfly also got $533,000 in Covid relief government handouts. Is that Excellence in tax cheating or what?
According to the recorder’s office in Salinas, Flying Kipper Corp. faces three liens from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration for unpaid sales taxes from Oct. l, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2023, amounting to $116,987.66 including a $25,209.86 lien that was filed with the recorder’s office Tuesday — and a lien from the Monterey County Tax Collector for $9,765.12. In all, the restaurant’s unpaid taxes amount to $126,752.78. A lien is a legal claim to property that prevents the owner from selling it without first settling the debt.
The ugly parklet blocks the view of the block. No P.G. charm here, just an expensive restaurant hiding from the tax man.
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.
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 categoryCushman, 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
Replace the whale with a razorback, present an exhibit on the Boggy Creek Monster and hold an assembly on the tradition of chocolate gravy.
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
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.
P.G. Police Chief’s WFH Reason REVEALED