Pacific Grove: The Mobile App

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Can’t park here, don’t need an app for that..
No Parking Pylons

Costs the city $300.00 a month. If we only had some organization that would keep track of businesses that cater to visitors to foot the bill for that we’d have a good thing.

The app’s purpose is to get information about the city to both visitors and residents. There’s a shop and dine feature on the new app. There’s also a “report an issue” feature that residents can use to notify city leaders of a problem in the city that needs to be addressed, such as potholes.

Pacific Grove: The Mobile App

Save The Pool Fund Raiser Is A Diner’s Bargain

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Kiddie Pool

For $10 for adults and $5 for kids, the community could feast on a spaghetti dinner with garlic bread, salad and a drink. Action News learned the event was a huge success. More than 300 people attended last night’s feed and the city earned more than $4,000 for the Save the Pool Campaign.

Keep it up and some Bistros may have to lower their prices. For the same price as noodles & bread at one local place a family of 2 & 2 can eat..

$8 toast at Joe Rombi
8 dollar toast

$21 for a plate of noodles, not even any meat!
20 Dollar Noodles

Save The Pool Fund Raiser Is A Diner’s Bargain

Old Empty Buildings In 200 Block Of Lighthouse Sold

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200 Block Lighthouse 3

Presumably to be replaced by the latest fad, New Empty Buildings like in the 100 Block

French Glass Gone

Four parcels between the intersections of Reeside and Dickman avenues in Monterey were sold recently to Carl Outzen, a former Monterey city councilman.

Outzen declined to give the purchase cost, other than to confirm it was for less than $1 million.

Outzen estimates it could take at least a year and a half before he gets city approval for the mixed-use building.

The only tenant is The Vinyl Revolution, a used record store, at 230 Lighthouse Ave. The business has been there since 1994, and Outzen said he will wait to demolish that building last. He said it is possible the store could go in his new structure.

Old Empty Buildings In 200 Block Of Lighthouse Sold

Deborah King Stays Locked Up

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Where she belongs for life.

Deborah King In Court
KSBW Photo

A woman convicted of striking and killing a Pacific Grove man as he picked up his son from school has failed in her bid for a new trial.

Kitagawa testified the tests were positive for hydrocodone, morphine, Xanax, Ambien, trazadone and an anti-depressant. In violation of pre-trial court orders, he also testified he found traces of marijuana, though the test showed only an inactive metabolite of the drug.

After an objection by defense attorney Heather Rogers, Judge Russell Scott informed the jury there was no active THC in King’s blood and to disregard the testimony. But he declined Rogers’ motion for a new trial, ruling the marijuana testimony would not affect the outcome of the trial.

After an objection by defense attorney Heather Rogers, Judge Russell Scott informed the jury there was no active THC in King’s blood and to disregard the testimony. But he declined Rogers’ motion for a new trial, ruling the marijuana testimony would not affect the outcome of the trial.

Deborah King Stays Locked Up

Babs Boxer Spending Your Tax $$

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Anything to protect us and our children from the teachers?

On Thursday U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer introduced new legislation to strengthen safety at local schools and to make sure state and local officials can better secure school campuses.

The bill is called the School Safety Enhancements Act, which said it would expand and strengthen the Justice Department’s existing Secure Our Schools grants. If passed, the bill would give schools more resources to install tip lines, surveillance equipment and secured entrances plus other safety measures.

Babs Boxer Spending Your Tax $$

Jacobo Ruelas’ Murder Trial Non-Progress

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Hang in there, justice will prevail.

Olinger Bench 2013

 

At the request of the defense attorney, who said he was not yet prepared, Judge Mark Hood vacated the trial date earlier this month. On Tuesday, as Phillips looked on, Hood denied prosecutor Jeannine Pacioni’s request to stop “wandering aimlessly through the court system (and) set a firm trial date.”

Pacioni said she felt defense attorney Andrew Liu was driving the trial date and Olinger’s family had waited “quite enough.”

Hood said he understood the urgency but is “focused on a just, fair, and expedient trial.” He will set a date, he said, when Liu has digested 14,000 pages of discovery and is prepared. Liu took over the case in May after Ruelas’ former attorney fell ill.

Jacobo Ruelas’ Murder Trial Non-Progress

Lovers Point Burger Shack Sees Rent Increase

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Welcome to the reality of P.G.

And who said that the Grill was open “every day for the past 22 years?”. Maybe if it was open they would make more money.

Sell more water?

Dollar Water

A beloved burger joint that has been in business for over two decades in Pacific Grove, said its getting the cold shoulder from the city. This, after a new lease agreement for The Grill at Lover’s Point Park means a rent increase.

Every day for the past 22 years Joe and Paula Cavallaro have worked side by and side, serving burgers, fries, just about anything. While business has had its ups and downs, Joe Cavallaro said they have managed to make it work.

“My wife and I are working it together, we’re doing the best we can,” said Cavallaro.

But their 10-year lease is up and they are now dealing with something unexpected. Cavallaro said the city has proposed a new lease one that he thinks is unreasonable.

Lovers Point Burger Shack Sees Rent Increase

This Month’s Outrageous Cal Am Bill – $6,000 For A Vacant House

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Either the neighbors filled their pool or Cal Am is up to it’s old tricks.

George Gergawy said he’s heard about the large bills for other Cal-Am customers and always thought it wasn’t real, until he opened his mailbox and saw the bill for $6,067.33. And, the home was empty last month after moving out.
According to Gergawy, the past 5 years the water bills at 747 Lyndon Street have been steady, between $15 and $16 dollars.

This Month’s Outrageous Cal Am Bill – $6,000 For A Vacant House

Dan Cort’s Stockton Properties Highlighted As “Blight”

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The Runaway Mayor that tried to ru(i)n P.G. according to his plans in Stockton appears to have failed there too…

Esther writes in –

If you watch this segment from NBC Nightly News, you’ll see a very nice story about a young man trying to rescue his hometown of Stockton. Watch carefully: near the end, they flash on some of the town’s squalor to make a point about urban decay. I have isolated one shot:

Cortco For Sale

It’s obvious that Kampe’s intended policies are a rehash of Cort’s–it looks like the reservoir is coming out of hibernation.

If you want to see the whole segment, here’s the info:

Young Stockton politician tries to make a difference

At 22 years old, Michael Tubbs, has just become the youngest member of Stockton, California’s city council. He and his supporters talk about how he got there, what lessons he learned growing up and how he hopes to reinvent his hometown and make the community proud

Dan Cort’s Stockton Properties Highlighted As “Blight”