Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Mayor Peak Stoned Deaf Of Harvey’s Dealings

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Maybe the mayor needs to be in the city managers real hometown to know what’s going on.

“I was not aware that Ben Harvey was contacting cannabis companies in July,” Peake said. “I was surprised because there was no interest in a cannabis store shown by the council.”

Harvey said Monday there was absolutely nothing inappropriate about his conversations and meetings with Apothecarium, and that to do so is part of his job as a type of ombudsman between elected officials and business projects.

“Part of my job is to deal with prospective businesses,” Harvey said. “I routinely meet with people interested in starting a business here, whether it’s a retailer, restaurant, brewpub or a cannabis dispensary.”

Another criticism of Harvey is that he allowed the one company, Apothecarium, to help draft the ordinance that would then be presented to the council on Sept. 2. Harvey argued there is nothing out of the ordinary in doing this. And he is right in that industry helps draft legislation in Sacramento regularly.

 

Mayor Peak Stone Deaf Of Harvey’s Dealings

Body Found At Shore Was Suicide

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Confirmed suicide. Name not yet released.

Suicide was determined to be the cause of death of a 56-year-old man whose body was found late last month near the ocean in Pacific Grove, a commander with the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office told the Pine Cone this week.
At about 12:30 p.m., officials recovered the body of the man on the west side of Ocean View Boulevard across from Crespi Pond near a vehicle turnout. While the cause
of death, at that time, was not known, foul play was not suspected.

Body Found At Shore Was Suicide

Dead Body Found At P.G. Shore

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“At this time, a Pacific Grove Police detective is working with the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office in determining the cause of death,” police administrative services manager Jocelyn Francis told The Pine Cone.
While there does not appear to be any foul play related to the unidentified man’s death, Francis said the sheriff’s office had a dive team search the water for any evidence. Sheriff’s office spokesman Cmdr. Derrel Simpson told The Pine Cone that the man was from Monterey County and was 56 years old.

Dead Body Found At P.G. Shore

Forest Avenue Demolition Derby Day

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Good thing there were no parklets in the way

The first accident happened around nine in the morning. The driver was trying to park but hit the gas instead of the break driving into Bookmark Music Store on Forest Avenue. No one was hurt but significant damage was done to the storefront. Then about an hour later — a second driver drove into the side of Mum’s Furniture Store. The shop is also in downtown Pacific Grove and it is also on Forest Avenue, just one block away from the first accident

Forest Avenue Demolition Derby

Dead Body Found Off Shore

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Possibly a suicide

The Monterey County Sheriff’s dive team recovered a body off of the Pacific Grove coastline on Monday.

The call came in Monday reporting that a body was floating in the water near one of the turnouts on Oceanview Boulevard, officials reported.

Search and rescue teams recovered the body and on Tuesday dive teams returned to the water to search for any evidence under the water. The victim did not appear to be a diver.

Dead Body Found Off Shore

Sunset Sinsemilla? Grove Ganja? Caledonia Cannabis? Butterfly Bhang?

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Pot store coming to P.G.

Got some useless school administrators all excited. Take it from a PG student from the 70s – weed is easy for kids to get. And cheaper on the street.

Butterfly Weed

Ralph Porras, the superintendent of the school district, in an email Thursday elaborated on his and the board’s fears of the’s city decision. His first concern is a cannabis store will increase the availability of marijuana.

“Access to drugs and the deleterious effects they already have on students throughout the nation, and especially in the Peninsula, is well documented and has had the attention of educators for many years,” he wrote. “The challenges to address these current problems are already very great and have a tremendous impact on the school community.”

Sunset Sinsemilla? Grove Ganja? Caledonia Cannabis? Butterfly Bhang?

Why Put A Traffic Signal At Skyline & 68?

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Are you too timid to stand on the gas and go? Are you driving a weak little car? There is a resting space to make the left from Skyline.

Ed Cavallini, one of the neighbors living near the crash site, said there is a stoplight at the intersection of the entrance into Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula and then not another one until the entrance into Pebble Beach at Morse Drive. That allows cars to accelerate from the CHOMP stoplight to Skyline Forest, a distance of about 0.7 miles.

Why Put A Traffic Signal At Skyline & 68?

Mvsevm Director Resigns Over Statutory Rape Allegations

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Posts on an Instantgram account called #thisisour831 resulted an email campaign calling to remove the director.

The Mvsevm

At that time, Sept. 1, 2017, he returned to his position as director of exhibits and education. Almost three years to the day, on Sept. 3, Govea resigned from his most recent position at the museum, director of community engagement.

The resignation comes after similar allegations surfaced on social media in recent days.

The only post on their feed so far references a specific incident was made on Aug. 29, and describes allegations against Govea. The post claims to be a story “from another young woman that was groomed and sexually abused by Juan Govea,” although the Weekly was not able to reach her or verify her identity.

She describes what started as a texting relationship when she was 16 or 17, then Govea inviting her to his home near the school, where she says he served dinner and Champagne followed by peach vodka. After that, she writes, she was too drunk to go home. She spent the night and they had oral sex.

Mvsevm Director Resigns Over Statutory Rape Allegations

Beaches Closed. Moose Out Front Should Have Told Ya

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Are we sure the Fresno crowd will stay off the sand?

With continuing heat in the Central Valley, people’s options for recreation severely hampered by coronavirus-induced restrictions, and daily crowds at the beaches despite
rules limiting their use, public officials decided the safest way to handle the next big holiday is to shut them down. For Independence Day, the City of Carmel completely
closed its beach, while some other Peninsula cities restricted their use to water-based activities, not allowing anyone to be on the sand.

Beaches Closed. Moose Out Front Should Have Told Ya

Jealousy Not Jalousie In Patisserie Bechler Shooting

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Was the crust of the situation.

Bechler

At about 4:40 a.m., Jennifer Razo, 39, shot the unidentified woman in the rear parking lot of Patisserie Bechler at 1225 Forest Avenue. Scores of police officers from Pacific Grove Police Department and numerous other law enforcement agencies rushed to the scene. Officers assisted the victim, and medical crews took her to a hospital. But Razo wouldn’t give up, and “she put a gun toward her head and threatened to shoot herself,”

She broke a window to the office of the bakery and tried to get inside, where the victim and Razo’s estranged husband — who also works at the bakery — were trying to shield themselves.

Jealousy Not Jalousie In Patisserie Bechler Shooting