Mayra Tostado said PG&E was notified of a gas leak at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at 406 Lighthouse Ave., adding no injuries were reported.
PG&E crews capped the leak at 3 a.m. The repairs led to a closure of Lighthouse Avenue between Drake and McClellan avenues Thursday. The street reopened late Thursday morning. An employee at nearby Current Comics said business was unaffected.
Up from the ground comes a bubblin’ crude.
As a safety precaution, the city of Monterey on Thursday closed McAbee Beach due to what was described as a small amount of a petroleum-like substance that had been discovered in the area of the beach.
The substance will be tested to determine exactly what it is and its origin, according to a press release issued by the city. The city is acting on the recommendation of the Monterey County Health Department to close the beach. The leak was described as “minor” and confined to the remnants of a cement foundation of a former building located on the site. The beach will remain closed until further notice.
Now the container deposit is just another tax that increases the cost of products.
On Jan. 31, rePlanet announced it closed 191 recycling centers in California, citing declines in commodities pricing of aluminum and plastic, coupled with a rise in operating costs as a result of minimum wage increases and required health and workers’ compensation insurance.
California Redemption Value recycling centers in Monterey, Pacific Grove, Salinas, Prunedale, Marina and Del Rey Oaks closed, leaving centers at the Marina landfill, 14201 Del Monte Blvd., and near the Costco in Sand City, 801 Tioga Ave., as the two closest locations. The center in Sand City is a rePlanet location, closed Tuesdays and open 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. the rest of the week.
Ted Terrasas, Monterey’s sustainability director, said city officials were surprised to find out about the closures earlier this week.
“The redemption centers are required to be put in place by the stores,” Terrasas said.
Not to be confused with Zito Virus which causes one to hug disease releasing raccoons.
The resident had recently traveled out of the country and contracted the Zika virus. Zika is spread through mosquito bites.
We think it’s only a matter of time before the viruses and the mosquitoes in California get together, and that we have infected mosquitoes, and that there’s local transmission. But this won’t be a very frequent occurrence,” Santa Cruz county mosquito and vector control manager Paul Binding said.
It’s possible that a traveler infected with the virus could be bitten by a local mosquito and that mosquito could bite someone else, further transmitting the virus.
What is it Ann? If it’s an over wintering site why plant milkweed for the caterpillars? Should plant nectar bearing flowers for the butterflies I think
“There’s volunteers all along the west coast, primarily in California that are counting over wintering sites during the three weeks around thanksgiving,” said Pacific Grove Museum Director of Education Ann Wasser.
“They’re looking at different pesticides, they’re looking at habitat loss with milk weed which is what the monarchs use to lay their eggs on. A lot of people treat it as a weed so they pull it,” said Wasser.
Showing a sign of improvement, but more prefer the hot tubs in Marin,
Each year the Xerces Society does an annual Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count.
“There’s volunteers all along the west coast, primarily in California that are counting over wintering sites during the three weeks around thanksgiving,” said Pacific Grove Museum Director of Education Ann Wasser.
Those numbers, which were just made available, show that almost 280-thousand monarchs made the long journey. And while it’s a big difference from the 1.2 million that use to fly to the California coast during winter, it is higher than previous years for most places.
“For Monterey County our numbers were not as high as they were last year. Counties farther north of us, especially Marin County, had much higher numbers this year,” said Wasser.
Often showed signs of cars crashing in to it. Admin once had a friend who gave me directions to her house – go up Eardley and stop at the water company building then go right at Sinex.
The water company offered to give the building to a group or neighborhood association for renovation, but there were no takers The structure would have been expensive
to remodel and finding a use for it would have been challenging.…
the council in October voted 6-1, with Councilman Dan Miller dissenting,to allow Cal Am to demolish the house. As a condition of that permit, the council required the historic signage be placed on the property, and that the valve gate be preserved.
Kudos to the Samaritan that tackled one of the druggies. I don’t know anyone that would want a drug lab endangering the block.
Justin Kelly, 27, and Camille Voye, 23, both of Monterey, were arrested during a search around 1:45 p.m. in the 600 block of David Avenue, where investigators found a butane honey oil lab, said Monterey police acting Cmdr. Mike Bruno, a member of the team.
When detectives from the team arrived to serve the warrant, Kelly fled through a back door and ran to a side yard, according to Bruno.
The 27-year-old jumped over fences but was tackled to the ground by a good Samaritan and taken into custody in the 500 block of David Avenue, Bruno said.
Detectives also found 21 pounds of marijuana a half-ounce of heroin, concentrated cannabis, evidence of drug sales and drug paraphernalia at the home, according to Bruno.
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New Monterey Drug Lab Busted
Moe says no. Less money for hotels to contribute to Chamber.
It was in February 2008, that the council approved a deal with the city’s innkeepers not to increase the TOT as long as they agreed to join the Monterey County Convention & Visitors Bureau and assessed themselves under the Pacific Grove Hospitality Improvement District, according to Ammar.
He said that a TOT increase would result in lower spending on shopping, dining and attractions. He also pointed to the 1 percent increase in sales tax that took place in 2008, which he said has generated over $1.2 million annually to the city.
Might pay off in 50,000 years.
According to the Pacific Grove Public Works Department, steady erosion along the coastline is not to the point where immediate action needs to be taken, however it no longer can be ignored either.
“We’ve retained Haro, Kasunich and Associates to do the study,” said Public Works Director Daniel Gho.
That study, which is planned to begin soon, will look into different scenarios the City could take.