Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Moe Ammar Hates The Rain & The Olympics

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Moe says the weather dampened the grabs for tourist dollars. IMO it was the normal high prices and lack of major celebrities at Pebble Beach. Traffic outbound in the evenings at 156 & 1 was heavier than usual.

Early signs are attendance and possibly ticket sales fell at this year’s AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

Rain at the PGA Tour event did more than occasionally stop play — it kept many guests in their hotel rooms or, worse, at home.

“I totally attribute it to the weather,” said Moe Ammar, president of the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce.

Ammar said he heard from locals who decided to watch the tournament at home because of the weather and guessed the start of the Sochi Winter Olympics also kept people indoors.

Moe Ammar Hates The Rain & The Olympics

Visitors Want Milkweed And Gift Shops

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Huge Gift Shop

Maria Rodale visits the monarch sanctuary, searches real hard to blame something that’s not organic for the decline. Besides, isn’t it the caterpillars someplace else that munch the milkweed?

I arrived around 10 a.m. and saw…nothing. OK, I saw one tiny monarch flitting about like it was a bit drunk. The sanctuary itself is also kind of…sad. Its entrance is between a motel and some garbage cans. It’s very small, and surprisingly, there was no gift shop! I thought back to when I researched the place on the Web and recalled that it was very hard to find. Hmmm…

Undaunted, I drove downtown to the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, where I asked what was going on. “Oh, they are there. If you go back at noon there is a docent who will show them to you. They can be hard to see.” But, I asked, was the population declining? “Absolutely,” she said. The current population was only a quarter of what it was just 10 years ago, she added. I asked what she attributed it to and she said “urban growth, habitat loss, lack of milkweed.” What about agricultural chemicals? I asked. “Oh, that’s more of an East Coast problem,” she said.

Visitors Want Milkweed And Gift Shops

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Monterey Sewage Closes The Beach In P.G.

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Plumbing contractor sends sewage down storm drain, public works lets drain empty to ocean.

Both the MFD and the Monterey County Health Dept. were informed by MPW last night that the diversion pump had been switched on, Ramirez says, but this morning the health department was informed by MPW that the switch was still turned off. Ramirez could not elaborate as whether the error was mechanical or human, but a statement issued by the health department earlier today said it was a “mechanical failure.”

Monterey Sewage Closes The Beach In P.G.

Is The Garbage Contract Up For Review?

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Something to consider – big dumpsters getting away and smaller driverless trucks following.

The episode started about 5:40 a.m. Friday when a small garbage truck was picking up a large trash bin that got loose and started rolling downhill. The driver got out to chase the bin, but didn’t set his truck brake.

The truck, too, rolled downhill, hit two parked cars, a house and a sport-utility vehicle that rammed into a second home.

Both homes were damaged, and the gas line at the first one was broken.

Is The Garbage Contract Up For Review?

Union Files Charge Against P.G. For Golf Giveaway

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Unions got to stay paid for their “work”,

The union representing the Pacific Grove General Employees’ Association filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge against the city on Jan. 31, alleging the city violated its collective bargaining agreement with the city employees represented by the union.
The charge stems from city’s proposal to lease the city’s golf course, Pacific Grove Golf Links, to a private contractor, Pacific Grove Golf Links, LLC, which would take over the operations and maintenance of the course and lead to the layoff of an unspecified number of city employees.

Union Files Charge Against P.G. For Golf Giveaway

Survey: P.G. Wants Its Own Cops

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Like most humans though, those surveyed changed their minds when told about the cost.

POL Police Car

The report was prepared by Pacific Grove resident Hank Armstrong, vice president of communications for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and police Sgt. Carl Lafata.

Some 76 percent of respondents preferred a city police department, even when told it would cost considerably more than a regional police plan or contracting for services.

But when told contracting for police services or a regional policing plan could save the city as much as $500,000 or $1 million a year, about 69 percent said they would support the idea, while 22 were unlikely to support it.

Survey: P.G. Wants Its Own Cops

Poor Intersection Fix To Get Fixed

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If it wasn’t broke, break it so it can get fixed? A step toward banning cars downtown? And why is the intruding mess not as big over at Bratty’s corner?

Curb Corner Cut

pacificgrove.com, 4/10/2013

Curb Corner Now
recent – same tracks, 2/15/2014

Cone Zone Bumpout
2 cones and a pylon, still getting hit.

The city’s weekly bulletin says the curb feature at the southwest corner of the intersection was reviewed by the city traffic engineer, who felt it should be cut back four feet. That will put the curb outside the standard 30-feet turning radius.

Poor Intersection To Get Fixed

Stuart Elder Waives Preliminary Hearing

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Sharon Daly had been drinking.

Recently, prosecutors and Elder’s attorney revealed that blood tests show Daly had also been drinking prior to the deadly crash, although no details about either driver’s level of intoxication have been made public.

Friends of the two women have expressed frustration about the many months it took to charge Elder after the collision, but his waiving of the preliminary hearing could now speed the process along.

Officials with the district attorney’s office said at least some of the delay was because a “black box” that records braking, speed and other vehicle information was difficult to extract from the women’s car.

Stuart Elder Waives Preliminary Hearing

Sheriff’s Son Arrested Again

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Sheriff Scott Miller’s son was arrested by probation officers on Tuesday in Pacific Grove after he allegedly stole “well over $1,000” in goods from Asilomar Conference Grounds, State Parks officials said.

Asilomar superintendent Eric Abma said Jacob Miller, who is in Monterey County Jail, stole phones, iPads, at least one laptop, and a “couple” of purses on Thursday and Friday.

Abma said he could not specify where the items were stolen from or if they were taken from people attending a conference.

Sheriff’s Son Arrested Again