Humans Or Seals, Who Is Allowed To Block Access To The Beach?

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The opposition is watching Losin’ Susan move the Seal Posse’s signs . .

It is curious the city of Pacific Grove, which appears to have a back door role in all this controversy, must have had a decided change of heart regarding marine mammals.

The city’s solution to keeping all marine mammals off Lovers Point Beach just a few years ago was to bang pots and pans to frighten them away. Now it seems we need to keep the public off the beaches if so much as one mother and pup venture into those areas.

Even Lovers Point Beach was recently closed after one mama seal appeared on the beach with her pup. It was mighty cute, yes, but the public was denied access to the beach and beach-related businesses were adversely affected.

Humans Or Seals, Who Is Allowed To Block Access To The Beach?

Stuart Elder Will Be Vindicated

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Says lawyer. The two ladies that died in the accident were former owners of Stone’s Pet Shop, a P.G. institution.

Witnesses said Elder was speeding and weaving between lanes while he was driving southbound on Sloat Road away from the Inn at Spanish Bay.

But Elder’s San Francisco-based defense attorney, Paul Nathan Puri, said Elder was not intoxicated and was not on his way home from the posh Pebble Beach Food & Wine festival or any related after-parties.

Puri also accused KSBW, other local media and law enforcement of “colluding in sensationalist yellow journalism and debased character assassination for their mutual profit and gain.”

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“Stuart Elder will be vindicated in a court of law,” Puri said.

Stuart Elder Will Be Vindicated

Edit 2/6/15

Eating Crow

P.G. Police, This Bad?

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PG Cop Car 1980s

P.G. can afford a kooky environmental manager but not a ‘substainable’ police force?

PGPD is in trouble

In my 24 years as a police officer with the Pacific Grove Police Department, I have never seen the staffing levels and employee morale so low. It all starts at the top.

Most able-bodied officers are looking for employment elsewhere. The officers are on a leaderless group exercise and the city is exploring ways to contract out the department.

Look at what eight months of contracting a police chief has resulted in: five officers and one civilian have left and more may go.

If the residents of Pacific Grove want to keep their officers on the street and keep their station open to the public, they have to be heard by city officials and the City Council, or it won’t be America’s last hometown for long.

Richard Sinclair Jr.
Carmel

P.G. Police, This Bad?

Elder Not DUI In Fatal Accident – Says Attorney

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Lawyer tells about Stuart Elder’s heroics for his passenger.

An attorney for a Pacific Grove luxury home builder involved in an April 7 collision that left two Pebble Beach women dead and another woman seriously injured issued a statement Monday saying his client was not under the influence of alcohol when the accident occurred.

The statement, emailed to reporters from the office of San Francisco Bay Area defense attorney Paul Nathan Puri, said Stuart Elder, 30, expressed condolences for the deaths of Linda La Rone, 65, and Sharon Daly, 72. They formerly owned a local pet store.

Puri described his law firm as a boutique practice that specializes in “defense against serious accusations and restoring the reputations of good people in their communities.

Elder Not DUI In Fatal Accident – Says Attorney

Bus Stops Hurting Business

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Traffic too. Now when a bus stops at one of those new jazzy stops it blocks the right lane.

Monterey-Salinas Transit began construction on the new Jazz line last June and for several months it closed lanes on Lighthouse Avenue. Carbone said it was a nightmare for his customers.

“There were a couple of days where I, personally, I cant speak for the other businesses, literally had two customers in my establishments,” he said. “Two people all day long.”

Carbone said he plans to fight to help all the businesses in the area. “They say it’s over and it’s not over. It’s over when I say it’s over,” he said.

Bus Stops Hurting Business

Former Owners Of Stones Pet Shop Killed In Accident

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Stones Pet Shop story – I would go there for Frontline to keep the cats flea free (living in PG with the forest wildlife all about even cats kept indoors would be host to fleas) I went to the counter where one of the ladies were and asked for Frontline. She would reply “for ???” and I would say “mountain lion”. Got a good chuckle since lions were being seen in in P.G. After that, every time I went for more pet flea control the running gag would come up.

A grisly collision in Pebble Beach on Sloat Road killed two Pebble Beach women Sunday night.

Stuart Elder, 30, of Pacific Grove, was heavily intoxicated when he crossed into oncoming traffic near Bird Rock Road, California Highway Patrol officers said. His 2009 black Cadillac sport utility vehicle crashed head-on into a Ford SUV.

On Thursday, the CHP released the identity of one woman killed in the wreck. Linda Larone, 65, of Pebble Beach, was a passenger in the Ford and died at the scene.

Friends identified the second woman who was driving the Ford as Sharon Daly, 72, of Pebble Beach. Larone and Daly were longtime partners and owned a pet shop together in Pacific Grove.

Former Owners Of Stones Pet Shop Killed In Accident

Back To The Future For Custom House Plaza?

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Custom House

Monterey Principal Planner Elizabeth Caraker stands next to a drab stone fountain and points past the bocce courts at dead-end Scott Street. Under the city’s transportation and parking study, released in March, Scott would be extended as a through-street – cutting through what today is a wharf parking lot. Alvarado would be extended to the middle of the plaza.

The plan was completed mostly with $300,000 in grant funding from the Monterey Bay Air Pollution Control District and Caltrans by San Jose-based consultants Fehr & Peers. It also calls for converting all of downtown’s one-way streets into two-ways.

“I’ve been in the business since 1987, and even with all of that experience, it’s always a challenge to find your way around Monterey,” Fehr & Peers Principal Rob Rees says. “It’s a very confusing place.”

I always liked that downtown was a maze of one way streets and intersections that are not perpendicular. Keeps the out of town-ers (like Rob Rees) cautious and less likely to run stop signs. The plaza should remain as is, maybe a few more trees for shade. And turn the fountain back into a fountain.

Back To The Future For Custom House Plaza?

Annual Springtime News – Beaches Polluted

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Lovers Point Beach Sand

Six beaches in Carmel, Pebble Beach, Pacific Grove, and Monterey were placed under water hazard advisories Tuesday afternoon due to high bacteria levels found in samples taken from the ocean.

The public is urged to not have ocean water contact at the following six beaches:

Monterey Municipal Beach, Monterey
San Carlos Beach, Monterey
Lovers Point, Pacific Grove
Asilomar Beach at Sunset Drive, Pacific Grove
Spanish Bay, Pebble Beach
Carmel Beach at Ocean Avenue, Carmel

Annual Springtime News – Beaches Polluted

97 Year Old Dies Crossing Pine

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Pine Avenue

A 97-year-old Pacific Grove man died at a hospital after being hit by a car in an intersection early Wednesday, police said.

Police called to Pine Avenue and 19th Street about 7:45 a.m. found the man semi-conscious with apparent head injuries.

The driver, a 55-year-old Pacific Grove resident, told police at the scene that he was driving east on Pine, looking directly into the rising sun and couldn’t see the pedestrian.

97 Year Old Dies Crossing Pine