An elderly woman from Monterey shot herself to death Tuesday in a Pacific Grove park, according to authorities.
Pacific Grove Police said that a passerby found the body of the 77-year-old woman, whose name has not been released, in Higgins Park at Forest and David avenues at
about 7:40 a.m. Police responded after getting a report of an “unconscious subject lying on the ground.” “When officers and firefighters arrived, they found a female subject suffering from a gunshot wound and unresponsive,” police said. “Paramedics declared the female subject deceased at the scene, and officers held the scene until the coroner arrived.”
Pickleball Racket Is Not What You Buy At Big-5
It’s what neighbors get their ears filled with.
But the city is hopeful that a newly installed device will not only minimize the sound, but also the number of complaints.
It recently installed “sound fencing” on a portion of the courts’ chain link fence. The material is purported to attenuate the loud “whack” when players’ paddles strike
the hard plastic ball. Many say the activity’s repetitive sound is more noticeable — and more irritating — than tennis.The sound fencing, manufactured by company Acoustiblok, and other work to the courts were estimated at $47,000
Meetings Don’t Solve Fire Hazards
Washington Park is a tinderbox of dead weeds and trees. But Dominick Sinicropi says leave it be. City spends $100,000 to have the effects of global warming on wildfire.
The meeting will discuss “near future efforts to lessen the threats from wildfires in our wildland interface areas,” The meeting comes after concerns from residents about the amount of dead brush, trees and other fuel they say could help a wildfire move quickly through the roughly 20-acre George Washington Park and spread to nearby homes. At the Jan. 16 P.G. City Council meeting, resident Kevin Hanley told the council that fuel at the park should be thinned to prevent a “catastrophic fire.”
However, not everyone agrees, including monarch butterfly buff Dominick Sinicropi, who told The Pine Cone last month that “instead of blaming natural areas for devastating fires,” including the recent fires in Southern California that destroyed thousands of structures, P.G. should be prioritizing measures to reduce causes from people, including from “outdoor barbecues” and “overhead power
lines.”
Layoffs At P.G. Schools
Is it odd that no administration jobs are listed as potential cuts?
The jobs at the city’s two elementary schools that could be on the chopping block include four classroom teachers, which would save $511,904, a Spanish teacher for a $139,907 savings, and a mental health therapist, which would save the district $178,626. Other possible cuts include the loss of two mental health therapists at the middle and high schools for a combined savings of S363,443, and a technology support position for a savings of$148,305.
The district, which is experiencing declining enrollment, is also recommending is a 3 percent reduction of all materials and supplies, professional consulting services, and other cuts for a $131,847 savings.
New ATT Golf Format Equals Less Commerce
Duh. The celebrities draw more crowds than people chasing white balls.
This year, the ATT Pro-Am did not boost local businesses as much as usual. Many owners attributed the decline to the absence of celebrities.
“Everybody would go out to see celebrities, Bill Murray, maybe you’ll catch your favorite actor or football player, Tom Brady but this year it really wasn’t like that and the vibe has changed a lot,” said John Culcasi, owner of Rosine’s.
The PGA Tour changed the ATT format last year and continued with it this year, making it an elevated event that attracted the world’s best golfers but no celebrities.
Some business owners said the lack of celebrities translated to a different crowd.
“The past two years it’s been a different crowd a lot more is golf-centered people they kind of go back to their hotels and they go out there early they don’t really go out like how it used to be,” said Culcasi.
Daniel Howland Hall Sentenced To Prison
For another P.G. domestic attack.
Judge Pamela Butler sentenced Daniel Howland Hall, 25, to four years and four months behind bars after he pleaded no contest, which amounts to a guilty plea, to false imprisonment by violence when hephysically abused his girlfriend July 30, 2024, at the unidentified woman ‘s home in Pacific Grove.
“When Jane Doe separated herself from Hall, he went into her bedroom, took her phone away, and proceeded to hold her down and strangle her for approximately one minute,” the district attorney’s office explained this week.
At the time of last year’s crime against his girlfriend, Hall was on felony probation for kidnapping an ex-girlfriend, identified by prosecutors as Jane Doe 2, on June 30, 2023.
Riley Elvin Gets Prison
Just 2 years.
Riley Elvin, 29, was arrested by Monterey Police Nov. 30, 2024, at El Estero Park in Monterey after he was caught fondling himself He was subsequently charged with lewd conduct, but prosecutors and Elvin’s attorney last month reached an agreement that allowed Elvin to plead guilty to violating his felony probation terms in exchange for dismissal of the misdemeanor lewd conduct case. He was on probation for threatening the school principal in November 2023 after trespassing onto school grounds.
Elvin’s criminal history in Monterey County goes back to 2014. A quick search of his name on the Monterey County Superior Court database shows five pages of cases (each page contains 10 cases), most of them criminal, that he’s been charged with in the last 11 years,
P.G. Hit And Run Suspect Caught
This is what Flock cameras are for.
A Marina man who police say struck a 14-year-old boy with his car in Pacific Grove and fled the scene last weekend was arrested the next day, thanks to technology and several vigilant citizens.
Pacific Grove Police said that on Jan. 25 the teenager, a student at P.G. Middle School, was running southbound across Lighthouse Avenue at Alder Street when 36-year-old Toyota Prius driver Icaro Fernandes Araujo struck him and left the scene.“The day after the accident, the suspect’s vehicle was seen driving through the City of Pacific Grove,” P.G. Police said. A citizen “got the suspect vehicle’s license plate number and provided it to the police department.”
Investigators checked the city’s Flock camera system, which captures images of license plates of vehicles entering and leaving the city, and confirmed that a car with the same plate had been in P.G. around the time of the hit-and-run.
P.G. Hit And Run Suspect Caught
Do The Fires In L.A. Teach Us Anything?
Poor forest management is not just in the Sierras or Southern California.
At the Jan. 16 Pacific Grove City Council meeting, citizen Kevin Hanley made a plea to Councilmembers to reduce the amount of fuel load — dead dry brush, downed trees, etc. — in George Washington Park, a 20-acre, thickly wooded greenspace. Doing so, Hanley said, would reduce the chances of a fire spreading to nearby houses.
Kevin is not wrong. Here’s a few snapshots of Washington Park just feet from houses. C’mon eco freaks and tree huggers, it’s a park so treat it like one.
Finally A Legit Weed Store
734 Lighthouse Ave. Where you can also get smashed at the Break Room then cure the munchies with an American Burger.
Monterey’s first cannabis dispensary, Off the Charts, is launching with a soft opening on Saturday, January 25.
The cannabis dispensary is using the soft opening as a dry run for when the grand opening occurs in a couple of weeks. Off the Charts stated this is to build local support before being officially open to the public.