Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Library. Or Is It Another Art Gallery?

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Renovations for non-book things.

Liberry

While current patrons still use some of the same tables and chairs that were there since 1908, somewhere along the way the original Douglas fir floor was covered with carpet while the building’s interior stained wood and arches were covered with paint. The original chandeliers somehow disappeared.

Now, as part of the renovation, Steele and her bevy of volunteers are also overseeing the creation of three replica chandeliers that are modeled after the originals that once hung. That’s while they prepare for an upcoming art exhibition and juried art show that will take place in the library’s gallery in early October.

Library. Or Is It Another Art Gallery?

Pork Payments Piling Up

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Ray Magsalay cites odor but I think it’s just intolerance.

Bruiser, the pot-bellied pig that was booted out of his Pacific Grove home, has yet to actually leave. That’s despite his owners Lisa and Mark Hanes being ordered to relinquish their beloved pet.

Instead, the Hanes continue to hope things change as fees to keep Bruiser while they wait for an appeal continue to escalate. Since August 22, the Hanes have had to pay a fine of $50 a day. On Tuesday that fee escalates to $500 a day.

Pork Payments Piling Up

Want More Butterflies? PLANT TREES

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Don’t chop them down.

More Butterfly Trees

It’s the past management mishaps combined with a declining monarch population that has city officials more cognizant about how the sanctuary is currently managed. In 2009, some overly-trimmed trees were thought to cause the demise of some of the monarchs. That sparked debate and instigated a re-do of the monarch sanctuary management plan that was developed in the 1990s. Weiss was later instrumental in the process of planting a second row of eucalyptus trees along the sanctuary’s southern boundary with the theory that redundancy creates a safeguard.

Overall, he said the city is taking a conservative approach when it comes to the sanctuary’s maintenance this year, which will only include the removal of a couple of dead trees, which will be replaced with pine and cypress.

Want More Butterflies? PLANT TREES

Tourist Trap News

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Don’t visit the trail at night. Dangerous Place.

Rec Trail Open2

The sardine population col-lapsed in the 1950s as a result of overfishing and changes in ocean conditions; the canneries closed, and the trains quit running through town.

Today, Monterey’s sardine history is still in evidence, although now seen through the perspective of tourism. Remaining canneries have been repurposed and filled with shops, restaurants, galleries and museums. The railroad tracks have been pulled up and replaced with a walking/bicycling path called the Monterey Bay Coastal Recreation Trail.

Tourist Trap News

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Holmans Undergoing Transformation

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From unused department store to multimillion dollar condos for weekenders.

Holmans Bowling

The building, a downtown staple for more than 90 years, was purchased for $5.9 million by the real estate development company for the purpose of converting it into a mixed-use property. It will include 25 luxury condominiums and 18,000 square feet of retail space. While existing businesses Jeninni Kitchen + Wine Bar, Grove Nutrition Center and Monterey County Bank will remain on the ground floor, there will be room for eight to 10 additional retail businesses.

Holmans Undergoing Transformation

Tree Sacrificed For Ugly Art

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Termites do your best.

“We’re about 60 percent into it,” said Jorge Rodriguez, the artist leading the project and working alongside fellow sculptors Javier Campos and Neftali Palomares commissioned to do the work. “We’re now going over the fine details.”

“The transformation of natural resources into chainsaw ‘art’ is an absurd practice within an environment such as Berwick Park,” said Coletti, in a prepared statement. “Many, including myself, want to see a living tree re-established here instead.”

Tree Sacrificed For Ugly Art

Pre School Kitchen Shut Down

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Thanks Michelle Obama

The school’s food preparation teacher needs to get a food handler permit — something that can be done online — but also, the kitchen will have to be remodeled to be approved by the Monterey County Health Department.

Right now “it does not pass inspection,” Miller said. “We’re now looking for a consultant to tell us what we need for passing inspection. The board is going to have to get a contract. It will take time to design and for the county to review, then the board to approve the expenditure. That will take some time.”

Pre School Kitchen Shut Down

Money For Monarchs

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“Past mishaps”
Butterfly Tree Stump

Fish & Wildlife to grant money for restoration and improvements.

“We walk around and talk about the state of the sanctuary and what the activities are that we have decided are good for the grove,” said Weiss. “The idea is that we want to be open and transparent about why we recommend doing certain things to keep every one on the same page about what’s happening in the grove.”

That transparency is so important to Weiss and city officials because of the past mishaps that have occurred with the city’s management of the sanctuary.

Money For Monarchs

Pebble Beach’s Good Deed Moves Forward

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Geeze, PB’s workers told they are in the wrong place. All I ever saw in the forests over the boundary was trash and yard clippings dumped by P.G. residents.

DMP Del Monte Park

In giving the 24-unit project the thumbs-up, the supervisors praised the proposal as an exemplary effort by a private company to provide employee housing and rejected the opponents’ argument that the project was in the wrong place.

Opponents, led by attorney Pearl Kan, who filed an appeal of the county Planning Commission approval of the proposal in June insisted they supported affordable housing, including in the toney forest, but argued the proposed 13.2-acre site off SFB Morse Drive adjacent to the Del Monte Park neighborhood of Pacific Grove was the wrong site because development would mean losing 725 trees in the Monterey pine forest and a prized location often visited by the neighbors.

Pebble Beach’s Good Deed Moves Forward

City Council Candidates Line Up

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Robert Huitt
Jenny McAdams
Nick Smith
Cynthia Garfield
Andrew Kubica
Alan Cohen

Vote Machine

The Pacific Grove City Council race includes a lone incumbent and five new candidates, all of whom are vying for three council seats.

All the city council candidates are expected to join mayoral candidates Bill Kampe and Dan Miller in the candidate forum on Sept. 8 at the Pacific Grove Community Center, 515 Junipero Ave.

City Council Candidates Line Up