Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Crespi Pond Burn Victim Identified

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Still don’t know what led up to the deceased man.
Richard Hafner

Early two weeks after finding a man’s body in flames at the Pacific Grove golf course, police still don’t know why 56-year-old P.G. resident Richard Haffner died, and they’re continuing to treat it as suspicious.

PGPD Sgt. Jeff Fenton was dispatched to Ocean View Boulevard around 7:20 a.m. Nov. 3 on reports of a man and building on fire at the public golf course. He arrived to find the person engulfed in flames lying unmoving on the ground next to the restroom building and a fence on fire, and attempted to douse them with the extinguisher from his car

Crespi Pond Burn Victim Identified

Mvsevm To Imprison The Monarchs

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Since the place was gifted to the fish prison it’s only natural for them to do the same with butterflies. And to do it with nothing more than summer tourists in mind.

The Mvsevm

“We have a bit of a challenge when tourists come here in the summer,” says Lori Mannel, executive director of the P.G. Museum of Natural History. “They say, ‘Where are the monarchs?’”
But thanks to a $50,000 planning grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Mannel and her colleagues expect that to change: A butterfly pavilion in the museum’s native plant gardens is in the works, an enclosed structure that will be home to a variety of native butterflies in all of their life stages, from caterpillar to chrysalis to winged.

Mvsevm To Imprison The Monarchs

This Year’s School Tax Vote Fails

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Lots of taxes passed for ‘education’ and all I can see is parking lots and football stadiums.

Measure G Trash

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.

This Year’s School Tax Vote Fails

Stuart Elder Arraigned

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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 Arraigned

Stuart Elder In Court

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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.

Stuart Elder In Court

Tom Fruit-Cheese Giving Away The City Part 4

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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?

Curb Alert Free PG

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.

Tom Fruit-Cheese Giving Away The City Part 4

Stuart Elder Charged

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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.

Stuart Elder Charged

Man Burned To Death At Crespi Pond

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Was the pond dry as it is today? (11/9)

Crespi Restrooms

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.

Man Burned To Death At Crespi Pond

P.G. Resident Scammed Out Of $1,000.00

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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)

2012 Elections

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P.G. Resident Scammed Out Of $1,000.00