With the blessings of what puts people in office.
The Pacific Grove City Council on Wednesday will again consider leasing the city’s golf course to a private operator, but this time with agreements in hand with two city employee unions.
The council postponed action on the golf course lease, which city officials say will benefit the city’s finances, at its last meeting after the General Employees Association filed a complaint with the Public Employees Relations Board.
Bill Kampe explains water, economy and stuff.
“This is all complicated stuff,” he said.
“It’s a very complicated situation,” he said.
On Feb. 24, marine scientists along the coast — including researchers from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Hopkins Marine Station, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and UC Santa Cruz — will start collecting giant kelp and testing it for traces of radioactive elements from Fukushima.
The kelp collectors stressed that, even if they do detect Fukushima’s radiation emanating from the kelp, it should not pose a health hazard to humans.
CALL GODZILLA NOW!
Moe is a sad.
“Cherry’s Jubilee has been a treasured part of foundation activities for the past 21 years,” according to the letter. “The foundation Board of Governors has determined the event deserves a close examination to measure its future potential for benefiting the mission of the foundation, and the community.”
The foundation will forge on with plans to host the Trail Rides this spring, a Children’s Miracle Network Gourmet Dinner and Gala expected to sell out in March and the Berries and Branches event in the fall, she said.
Ammar acknowledged Cherry’s Jubilee is “a goner” this year, but said the Pacific Grove chamber has the resources to bring it to fruition in the future should the SVMH Foundation opt not to host the event in 2015 and beyond.
Was it self defense? Saw that Amazon offered guns for clams and had a thought…
Three threatened southern sea otters were shot to death and found at Asilomar Beach in Pacific Grove in September, according to a release from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
“These baseless killings are nothing short of acts of barbarism,” said Kim Delfino, director of California programs for Defenders of Wildlife. “Moreover, shooting endangered species like the southern sea otter is illegal, and the criminals responsible should be punished to the highest extent of the law.”
25 years ago and the murderer still breathes.
On a fall day in 1989, 31-year-old Kim Hickman was moving out of her Pacific Grove apartment when she was attacked and sexually assaulted by Hughes, then 28. A pathologist testified at Hughes’ trial that it took more than an hour for Hickman to die after being stabbed and strangled.
Hughes’ death sentence has been upheld by the state’s Supreme Court. But after almost 24 years, Hickman’s mother, Nan McMahan, is growing tired of waiting to see the case come to an end.
Now a proposed California ballot measure aims to speed up executions and restrict privileges for death row inmates. But even if it passes, the measure could face a slew of legal challenges and delays.
By-The-Sea says “Take ’em down”. Especially if they are seasonal home use grade – not meant for outdoor exposure for long periods.
City code allows the lights to be on display from the third Wednesday of November until the second Wednesday of January. The law applies to trees, public rights-of-way and private properties in commercial zones, and commercial operations in residential districts.
Nearly all merchants have complied, but there are some who should remove the remaining lights, said planning chief Rob Mullane.
From a fish.
Not global warming, not Monsanto, not fracking. A fish.
“We activated our unified command and brought in the Coast Guard, the Harbor Master, and we launched our fire boat to start doing an investigation of the area.” said Henderson.
In this case, oil from the tiny anchovy fish. Even though the marine life is highly regarded in the Monterey Bay, small oil spills have happened before.
Will it be like Monterey’s program that spent the money on more cops and bus tickets to elsewhere?
A report prepared by Fischer and Cuneo said a 2013 count estimated about 1,240 homeless people on the Peninsula, including 350 women and several hundred elderly people.
“Many of these people are capable of working their way back into being productive members of society if given some assistance,”
Last year, the Monterey City Council set aside $40,000 for homeless services, but the fund was tapped in October to provide $20,000 to pay for increased police patrols downtown and on Fisherman’s Wharf. The Monterey council previously agreed to spend $1,500 to buy bus passes for homeless people needing transportation.
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.