If you put Le Chat Modern into an anagram generator you get Dormant Leech
Art galleries are useless businesses. When will someone open a store that’s there to make money?
Texan’s Kinkade Galleries Closed
Not even a mass market art gallery can sustain.
The former Consuelo’s turned into a gallery.
when Larson took over, that all changed, according to Dow. He fired the gallery’s employees and “hasn’t answered a phone call, nor has he returned one since the day this deal went through. You CAN quote me on that!” she said.
In addition to the Ocean Avenue shop, the small space next to the Tuck Box on Dolores Street and the “national archive” on Lighthouse Avenue in Monterey were also shuttered, though Dow said Kinkade’s headquarters recently called and expressed interest in reopening the Ocean Avenue location.
Auction Company Settles
And I was just about to see if I can pick up some painting in Pebble Beach at a good price.
A company that held several estate auctions in Pebble Beach and Pacific Grove over the last four years has been ordered to pay $140,000 for alleged auction fraud.
In May, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office filed a civil complaint against American Wholesale Jewelry, Inc., and president Alon Varsha, doing business as Kingston Auctions, for deceptive marketing claims.
P.G. Cops Responding To Car Ripoffs
If you lock the doors, one burglar may move on. Or the may put a rock through the window to steal an iPod.
In an effort to catch burglars in the act, Pacific Grove police officers, using unmarked cars, recently staked out areas in the city where vehicle burglaries and thefts have occurred.
“We have been able to do some surveillance programs in direct response,” Miller said.
One of the stings netted the arrest of a Pacific Grove man who was going car to car and checking door handles, trying to find an unlocked vehicle, Miller said.
Carmel Does Not Want To Be Made Fun Of Over Pet Chickens
This coming from the town that bans ice cream cones.
At the Oct. 5 meeting, Yateman, a.k.a. “the chicken lady,” reiterated her desire to keep hens because they lay nutritious eggs, are quiet, produce fertilizer, eat bugs “and even in some cases, mice,” make good pets “and are very educational for children,” while having no negative consequences.
“I had two hens many years ago, with absolutely no problems,” she said, adding that The Pine Cone’s weekly police log often contains calls about barking and biting dogs, but “never anything about hens.”
So sympathetic was the audience to her plea, no one made the obvious counter-argument: There have been no complaints about hens because the town hardly has any, while dogs are everywhere.
Carmel Chamber of Commerce CEO Monta Potter said her organization works hard to market Carmel as a sophisticated destination for visitors, and while she did not take a particular position for or against chickens, she commented, “I would hope that we are not made fun of. I think it’s important that we continue to promote ourselves as a sophisticated city.”
Mayor Wants No Smoking In Public
Monterey has an ordinance against smoking on the rec trail. Cuneo, Kampe and Cohen all opposed the action. Kampe said “It’s incredibly rare to encounter second-hand smoke in Pacific Grove.” Kampe has never walked past Juice & Java or Hazara’s I take it.
Are Pacific Grove’s smoking regulations strong enough?
Mayor Carmelita Garcia doesn’t think so. She proposed Wednesday that the city consider tightening rules about smoking in public places, particularly parks, beaches, recreation areas, outdoor dining areas and sidewalk tables in front of restaurants and coffeehouses.
The motion to ask staff to draw up an ordinance failed 3-3, with Cuneo, Kampe and Cohen opposed
37 Hand Grenades Found In Pebble Beach
A probation search on Thursday at the home of Joe Beverdine, 48 on the 2900 block of Sloat Road in Pebble Beach found 37 inert military practice hand grenades, deputies said.
On Tuesday, Monterey Police officers conducted a vehicle check, occupied by Joe Beverdine, in the parking lot of the Travel Lodge Motel, deputies said.
They found an altered practice hand grenade within the vehicle, causing the evacuation of the motel while the Bomb Squad responded and rendered the device safe, deputies said.
Beverdine is currently in-custody pending trial on $62,500 bail, deputies said.
Lookout For Cops On Vacation In P.G.
If you can take county cars on vacation I guess it helps well paid cops have 2nd homes in P.G.
A driver was hurt when her car was rear-ended in Monterey by an off-duty Stanislaus County sheriff’s captain in a department vehicle, the woman says in a claim against the county.
Previous reports said no one was injured when Capt. Tim David, driving a sheriff’s Ford Explorer to his second home in Pacific Grove, ran into a Ford Focus on March 26.
The accident caused Sheriff Adam Christianson to issue a policy in April that prohibits taking home a car if an employee lives farther than 35 miles — Pacific Grove is about 120 miles — and will be away more than three days.
Lookout For Cops On Vacation In P.G.
Modesto Bee
Every Election A New Tax
$90.00 a year for 10 years. My vote is a no. Cutback on necessary things during tough times first. I don’t see them trying anything but reducing hours.
To supporters, the library parcel tax Pacific Grove residents will vote on Nov. 2, Measure Q, is the one chance the city has to guarantee funding to keep its century-old library open.
To opponents, Measure Q is an unnecessary add-on to the tax burden based on assumptions of facts that have not been discussed in public.
The ballot measure was debated Tuesday in a forum organized by the League of Women Voters. Linnett Harlan and Greta Miller of the Campaign Committee for Yes on PG Library faced former Councilwoman Susan Goldbeck and Jeffrey Flather of the Monterey Peninsula Taxpayers Association.
