Moe Says Things Are Looking Up

Baghdad Moe

Sure, America’s Last Hometown still struggles with out-of-control CalPERS costs and bickering political camps, but real estate values have held relatively steady. And the downtown commercial vacancy rate has dropped from about 25 percent last year to half of that, according to P.G. Chamber of Commerce President Moe Ammar.

Rabobank recently filled the former World Savings Bank space on Lighthouse Avenue, he says. And The Alliance on Aging just signed a lease to run a high-end consignment shop in the old Hallmark building, which sat empty for almost five years. Other new retailers include a doll shop, a teen clothing store and two art galleries.

Nothing for locals to see, move along.

Happy Hour In PG – Saturday July 9

Empty street

Moe Says Things Are Looking Up

Presidio May Build New Gate On Highway 68

Pending congressional approval. Since we know how much Sam the Sham Farr cares about our national defense, it won’t happen.

68 Bw1985

The plan offers two alternatives: a centralized campus at the Presidio, consolidating instruction and troop housing there, with two new barracks buildings, three instructional buildings and four multi-level parking garages, or construction of the new barracks and instructional buildings at Ord Military Community, with parking garages at the Presidio.

It also calls for a future access gate to the installation at Holman Highway.

Most of those projects, including the new gate, are scheduled for fiscal 2017 or later and have not been approved by Congress, Elliott said.

Presidio May Build New Gate On Highway 68

Trolley Bus Stops In P.G.

We are in your town, filling your inadequate sewers.

Trolley Riders

“I think there are a lot of people who don’t know about Pacific Grove at all. And any instrument that brings people into the town, once they see it, once they’re acquainted with the charm of it, they return and that’s always a good thing,” said Terry Clemens, Pacific Grove Business Owner.

Trolley Bus Stops In P.G.

Burglary At Home Remodel 2X

During remodels you put your valuables in storage, and we don’t mean the garage..

A Pebble Beach house undergoing major remodeling was burglarized twice on Sunday — once in the morning and again at night — according to the Monterey County Sheriff ’s Office.

“There were two different calls there, and two different documentations of stuff that was missing,” Cmdr. Lisa Nash said of the home located on Macomber Drive.
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Since the home is being remodeled, many workers have access to the house, according to Nash, who said deputies found no evidence of forced entry.

Burglary At Home Remodel 2X

Pollacci Liquor Store Sold

Astonished
Pollacci Lopez Liquor

The store on Lighthouse played a prominent role during Tom Pollacci’s 2010 criminal trial in which a jury found he raped a woman in the loft. According to prosecutors, nine other women have reported being raped by him over the last three decades. His next trial, on charges of raping two of them, is scheduled to begin July 11 in Monterey County Superior Court.

Pollacci and his family are also being sued in Superior Court by one of his victims and in U.S. District Court by another. Pollacci worked at the Ron’s Liquors in Pacific Grove and Carmel for many years, and met several of his victims there, where he commonly checked the IDs of customers, according to court testimony.

Pollacci Liquor Store Sold

Sustainable Pacific Grove Unconstitutional?

Scheme sounds vaguely familiar.

Agenda 21

Agenda 21 is a UN initiative that 178 governments at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) adopted in 1992 under the auspices of saving the environment. It bills itself as a coordinated plan of action to help nations and local government ensure “sustainability.”

Agenda 21 usurps sovereignty, property rights, economic liberty, and basically hands over power, resources and land to unelected elitists … to control the populations of every country in the world. Agenda 21 purports to address environmental issues, but calls for wealth redistribution, resource redistribution, food redistribution, energy restrictions, supposed social justice, and more. It is NOT about the environment, though it pretends to be.”

Sustainable Pacific Grove Unconstitutional?

New Monterey Police Blotter – June 2011

6/1/11 Vandalism on 700 Lighthouse.

6/1/11 Graffiti vandalism on Lighthouse.

6/1/11 Found property on Lighthouse and Irving.

6/2/11 LOPEZ, JUAN C FUENTES was cited for driving on a suspended license at Lighthouse and Reeside.

6/2/11 Vandalism on Lighthouse.

6/2/11 Hit and run in the 400 block of Lighthouse.

6/2/11 Grand theft on Cannery Row.

6/3/11 MCSO was aided in the arrest of EATON, ZACHARY for a warrant on Portola Plaza.

6/3/11 URSO, MICHAEL was arrested for public intoxication outside of Portola Plaza.

6/4/11 Commercial burglary on Lighthouse.

6/4/11 Graffiti on Hoffman Ave.

6/4/11 Traffic accident on Hoffman at Foam.

6/4/11 Theft on Cannery Row.

6/5/11 CATHEY, JUSTIN was arrested for DUI at Lighthouse and Pvt Bolio.

6/5/11 Hit and run on Wave.

6/6/11 FOREST, CAMILLE was arrested for DUI at Prescott and Hawthorne.

6/7/11 Traffic accident in the 400 block of Lighthouse.

6/7/11 Traffic accident on Pacific Grove at Foam and Prescott.

6/8/11 GRIFFIN, KEVIN was arrested for public intoxication in front of the harbor master’s office on today’s date.

6/8/11 Commercial burglary on Foam.

6/8/11 Traffic accident on Prescott and Pine.

6/8/11 Annoying phone calls on Foam.

6/9/11 Found keys at Oak Newton Park.

6/9/11 MCSO was aided in the cite and release of REYNOLDS, LARRY for warrants at Bruce Ariss and the Rec Trail near Cannery Row.

6/10/11 KELLEY, JACOB was arrested for DUI at Pacific and Scott.

6/11/11 LOMONACO, JOSEPH was arrested for DUI of drugs on Lighthouse at Drake.

6/11/11 LOMONACO, JOSEPH was transported to Monterey County Jail with an outstanding traffic warrant issued out of Monterey County.

6/11/11 Traffic accident on Lighthouse at Drake.

6/11/11 Hit and run in the 600 block of Wave.

6/12/11 Towed vehicle from the 500 block of David.

6/13/11 Theft of a wallet on Prescott.

6/13/11 COLLINS, DOUGLAS was cited for battery on Foam.

6/13/11 Transient was identified as a shoplifter at 700 Cannery Row.

6/13/11 Hit and run on 400 Hoffman.

6/14/11 Theft of a wallet in the 600 block of Cannery Row.

6/15/11 Traffic accident on Prescott and Cannery Row.

6/15/11 Lost property on Laine St.

6/16/11 Commercial burglary on Cannery Row.

6/16/11 Graffiti vandalism on Foam and Hoffman.

6/16/11 MCSO was aided in the cite and release of REYNOLDS, LARRY for a warrant on Lighthouse.

6/16/11 Theft on Lighthouse.

6/16/11 MPD assisted PGPD in locating a runaway juvenile in 700 block of Hawthorne.

6/17/11 ARSENAULT, DANIEL was arrested for DUI in the 100 block of Lighthouse.

6/17/11 Traffic accident in the 200 block of Lighthouse.

6/19/11 Hit and run in the 800 block of Lighthouse.

6/21/11 Graffiti on Lighthouse.

6/21/11 MPD documented graffiti Foam St.

6/22/11 Theft of license plate on Grace St.

6/22/11 Traffic accident on Lighthouse Tunnel.

6/22/11 Traffic accident on Withers.

6/22/11 Commercial burglary at the Monterey Plaza.

6/23/11 Theft of a purse on Foam.

6/23/11 Hit and run on Foam.

6/23/11 Vandalism on Lighthouse.

6/23/11 Graffiti vandalism on Lighthouse.

6/23/11 Traffic accident on Lighthouse tunnel.

6/23/11 TORRES, ANDREW was arrested for DUI on Foam at Lighthouse.

6/23/11 Traffic accident on Prescott and Lighthouse.

6/23/11 Grand theft on Grace St.

6/24/11 Commercial burglary on Cannery Row.

6/25/11 Vehicle burglary on 2000 David.

6/25/11 Residential burglary on Oak St.

6/25/11 MPD towed a vehicle on Belden.

6/26/11 BAMBA, EDWARD was arrested for public intoxication at Wave and Prescott.

6/26/11 Hit and run on Wave.

6/28/11 DUSENBERRY, RICHARD was cited for no passenger seat belt worn at the intersection of Prescott and Belden.

6/28/11 HAZARD, MICHAEL was in possession of a shopping cart on David Ave.

6/28/11 Traffic accident on Lighthouse.

6/30/11 Graffiti at the Harbor Master’s Office.

6/30/11 Hit and run on Wave St.

New Monterey Police Blotter – June 2011

Jellyfish Win Latest Bay Crossing Challenge

Jellyfish 3, Humans 2
Jellyfish Warning

Dublin’s Patti Bauernfeind made it about halfway through her second attempt to swim across the Monterey Bay on Tuesday morning before jellyfish stings once again forced her to stop.

Cindy Cleveland crossed the Monterey Bay in 1983 in 17 hours, becoming the only person known to complete the swim without a wetsuit. Last year, Santa Cruz native Chase Bruckner completed the swim in 14 hours after stopping near Moss Landing to put on a wetsuit when jellyfish stings became unbearable.

Jellyfish Win Latest Bay Crossing Challenge

Have We Forgotten The Squid?

Oohhh, the Squid Festival. That was fun. I’d start a calamari booth at the Farmer’s Market just to be able to munch on fresh squid.

Even with those record hauls, Tringali laments the overall loss of identity with squid in the general community, pointing to the now-defunct Monterey Bay Squid Festival, the annual Memorial Day weekend event that ended its run in the late 1980s.

“It would be fantastic to have a squid festival again, but it’s hard to get people to (organize) it,” said Tringali, who encouraged squid fans to try instead the local Santa Rosalia Festival, a free event in September that blesses the local fleet and serves a myriad of Italian delicacies such as calamari.

Capt Calamaris