Police are saying they’re still investigating the incident and the victim, Richard Haffner, lived alone. Right now officers are in contact with his family and say they’re not investigatig it as a homicide. At this point, they are just trying to see if it was a suicide or an accident.
Category Archives: Pacific Grove
This Year’s School Tax Vote Fails
Lots of taxes passed for ‘education’ and all I can see is parking lots and football stadiums.
In Pacific Grove, residents failed to pass Measure G, the Pacific Grove Unified School District-backed proposal that asked taxpayers to pay about $30 per every $100,000 of their assessed home value for tech devices and programs for the district’s schools.
But the measure, which had the support of the Monterey Peninsula Taxpayers Association, fell short of the 55 percent it needed to pass, receiving 2,030 Yes votes (51.51 percent) to 1,911 No votes (48.49 percent).
Backers had said the funds would have been collected for 20 years in a series of short-term, low-interest bonds and would generate about $27.8 million for the district to purchase computers, electronic tablets — such as iPads — update security cameras, and implement statewide technology requirements for testing and learning.
Stuart Elder Arraigned
Court of Judge Russell Scott. Same as Deborah King and Aaron Corn.
Surrounded by a veritable human shield, 31-year-old Stuart Elder was arraigned Friday on charges of gross vehicular manslaughter in the deaths of two Pebble Beach women.
Elder, a luxury home builder out of Pacific Grove, was formally charged Monday, seven months after he was first arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence during the April 7 wreck. If convicted, he faces a maximum of 15 years in prison.
Linda Larone, 65, and Sharon Daly, 72, were killed in the accident that also seriously injured 20-year-old Selvia Gattis.
According to the Contractors State License Board, Elder is the sole proprietor of E.C.I. Building Inc., in Pacific Grove. His license was active as of Friday.
Stuart Elder In Court
Elevated to celebrity status.
On Friday, he rushed in and out of the courthouse, his lawyer at his side.
Elder’s Bakersfield attorney Michael Lukehart told the judge he will ask the court to ban the press from using “electronic media — filming, recording or photographing” at the proceedings, noting that TV crews were filming as he spoke.
Judge Russell Scott said he had already granted permission for cameras to roll at the arraignment.
Tom Fruit-Cheese Giving Away The City Part 4
P.G. has lost its fire department, police department, Mvsevm, the land under the fish prison and now is throwing out the golf course, cemetery and public works department.
What about contracting out the City Manager position?
City Manager Thomas Frutchey will ask the City Council on Wednesday to seek proposals for six different jobs, including managing the Pacific Grove Golf Links.
In a council report, Frutchey says that while the city is responsible for providing the services, “it does not follow that the city itself is always best able to provide those services.”
Contracting out the services would likely lay off city workers, but the city is encouraging employee groups to prepare their own proposals, the report says.
Stuart Elder Charged
Denies being under the influence.
A week after the collision, Elder’s attorney Paul Puri issued a statement Elder flatly denied he was drunk at the time. The statement said Elder had comforted the injured Gattas and had taken “all precautions, care and concern under the circumstances.”
Messages touting two after-parties following that weekend’s Pebble Beach Food & Wine festival, including photos of the crowds in attendance, were posted from a Twitter account pertaining to Elder construction business several days before the collision.
The festival ended early Sunday afternoon, several hours before the fatal crash.
Through his attorney, Elder has said he was not coming from the festival when the crash occurred.
Man Burned To Death At Crespi Pond
Was the pond dry as it is today? (11/9)
Pacific Grove police have identified Richard Haffner as the man killed Sunday at Pacific Grove Municipal Golf Course after they found him engulfed in flames. Police would not release any more details as of Monday afternoon.
Police are investigating the death of a man they found engulfed in flames Sunday morning at the Pacific Grove Municipal Golf Course.
Employees in the golf course’s restaurant and pro shop saw the man in flames running in the area of the stone restroom near Crespi Pond and the tees of the 17th hole on Ocean View Boulevard about 7:20 a.m.
Numerous calls to Pacific Grove police and the Monterey Fire Department reported a man and building on fire. Police arrived first and found the man and a fence outside the bathroom on fire. An officer immediately extinguished the flames but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
P.G. Resident Scammed Out Of $1,000.00
A Pacific Grove resident lost $1,000 in what the city’s Police Department is calling the “IRS Investigations Scam.”
Scammers identifying themselves as Internal Revenue Service investigators call their victims with the threat of a looming arrest warrant because of a tax deficiency.
How can Pacific Grove residents be so gullible?
Election Results for Pacific Grove, 2012 (City-Data.com)
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Downtown Parking To Be Extended To Two Hours
As businesses try to do anything to get people to spend money in town. Or timing parked cars is not the number one objective of AutoChalk, more like some kind of tracking system to read and log every license plate it sees.
The City of Pacific Grove is responding to numerous complaints that 90 minute parking downtown isn’t enough time to enjoy some lunch, browse the shops, or go to the beach without getting a $35 ticket.
A new pilot program will change the downtown’s 90 minute parking to 2 hour parking from Nov. 7-Jan. 15.
Shoot, I wanna know how to get an all-day parking space like the Victorian Corner workers get.
Measure G – Another School Tax To Refuse
Aint there enough tax dollars going toward things that are not basic education? Parking lots, football stadiums, district offices and now give tablet computers to every student?
This is just another example of the kind of thinking that leads to an appalling waste of tax dollars like spending $6.8 million on a refurbished sports stadium. And now they want to buy iPads for every student? PGUSD does not need new iPads for every student. Oh, and by the way, what percent of students in the school district don’t already have iPads? Does the school district even know? Does it care?
The fact that this is how they are thinking of spending Measure G money demonstrates that they cannot be trusted to use your tax dollars wisely. It should be an easy call for every voter to reject Measure G.
Residents on the Monterey side of David Avenue support it . .
