Aaron Corn DUI Charges – Who Bought The Beer?

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No one is saying.

No additional charges will be filed in connection with a Feb. 21 accident that injured five Pacific Grove High School students, including 18-year-old Chelsie Hill, who was partially paralyzed.

While the driver of the vehicle, Aaron Corn, 18, faces felony drunken driving charges, Carr said no one will be charged with furnishing alcohol that Corn allegedly drank before he crashed into a tree off rain-slickened Skyline Drive.

“We don’t have the evidence to support a furnishing (alcohol to a minor) charge against an adult,” Carr said. “We don’t have any information to hold an adult responsible.”

According to records obtained by The Herald, Monterey police investigated reports that a 21-year-old acquaintance purchased two 30-packs of Keystone beer at Rite Aid in Pacific Grove and gave them to the teenagers. The allegation was not supported by security video from the store, and the man denied involvement.

Aaron Corn DUI Charges – Who Bought The Beer?

Election Dysfunction

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Vote Machine

One of the measures, titled the Sustainable Retirement Benefit Reform Initiative, which drew objections last Wednesday from City Manager Thomas Frutchey and City Attorney David Laredo, would ultimately cap city retirement pension benefit contributions at 10percent of the employee’s salary, though employees could contribute more to their own plans if desired.

Frutchey said he would have difficulty recruiting quality employees under those terms and Laredo said the initiative would likely bring lawsuits against the city by public employees and their unions.

Another measure that would levy a $90 annual parcel tax — $45 for rental units — to support the city’s public library was approved last Wednesday by the council. Details of the ballot measure’s wording should be hammered out today, including language specifying that revenue from it would be used for library operations only and that the fund could not be diverted to other city uses.

A third measure, calling for amendment of Measure C, a ballot measure passed by voters in 1986 that limits the number of rooms hotels and motels can add, was endorsed by the City Council last month but has been withdrawn by proponents.

The retirement/Union situation – you can pay people $700 and hour to work in a room where the heat goes up a degree every day – soon they will quit no matter what the pay. To work in P.G. is a benefit that is not touted much. I don’t want to attract burnouts from Watsonville or Salinas that will retire at 55 and leave town.

The new liberry tax will not be diverted. Who said that? Same people that divert sewer funds? I’ll never trust a politician on anything to do with taxes.

Lastly the cheesy motels in P.G. don’t need more rooms, they need to tear down and rebuild on the space they have.

Election Dysfunction

U.S. Open Looks To Have Been A Success For P.G.

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Moe missed it with his gloomy outlook back on June 13.

Still, I saw bigger crowds on Memorial Day.

At Lattitudes restaurant in Pacific Grove, “We had our best week in history,” said owner Tene Shake. People walked to the restaurant from nearby hotels, some with reservations, some not.

Unlike 2000, the tournament went into the early evening this year to accommodate an East Coast prime time TV audience. That meant diners were coming in later, Shake said; even at 11:30 p.m., Lattitudes was still half-full.

The fact that busing to Pebble Beach was provided by the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce was a key factor, Shake said.

U.S. Open Looks To Have Been A Success For PG

Metered Parking For McMansions On Dewey

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None of these P.G. remodels on Dewey really need street parking anyway. Can’t have it both ways. Either end the permit parking or put meters up.

 

 . . staff members of the California Coastal Commission say the daytime preferential parking accorded to the Dewey Avenue neighborhood violates terms of a 2004 permit that Pacific Grove received to install parking meters along two nearby blocks of Ocean View Boulevard.

The commission imposed the condition with the intent of providing more public parking for visitors to the shoreline. And it set a deadline this year for the city to drop the residents-only parking zone.

Residents of the neighborhood contend they need the parking privilege to prevent their streets from being inundated all day with vehicles belonging to tourists and employees from the Monterey Bay Aquarium and other Cannery Row businesses.

Parking Dewey

Metered Parking For McMansions On Dewey

Ron’s Liquors Rapist Pollacci Gets 8 Years

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Hopefully some more jail time after new charges are tried.

Wearing a bandage on his right elbow from an attack by inmates in the Monterey County Jail on Thursday, Pollacci made no comment during the afternoon hearing and avoided the gaze of the public and media cameras. Out of the glare of the spotlight, he smiled as he was led away from the courthouse in shackles.

Scott said he knew his comments would be received while Pollacci is facing three new rape charges, but felt he had a responsibility to address the community. While Pollacci, 50, was convicted of raping one woman in the loft of his father’s Pacific Grove liquor store, Scott said, he could not ignore the evidence that there were many more victims in the past 30 years.

Ron’s Liquors Rapist Pollacci Gets 8 Years

Hide Your Wallet, P.G. Budget Approved

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14.8 million and another tax vote in the works. When will they go away?

Some of these savings are expected to come from shared fire administration and police services with the city of Carmel; a 40 percent reduction in the consulting budget for Frutchey’s office and a 50 percent cut for a retirement plan analysis in the finance department; funding reductions for the stormwater program; and elimination of a half-time code enforcement officer.

Not included in the coming year’s budget, Frutchey said, are costs expected to be incurred by placing three or more measures on the ballot: a library parcel tax; an amendment to a 1997 ballot measure, Measure C, that loosens limits on new hotel room development in the city; and a measure amending city employee retirement funding.

Hide Your Wallet, P.G. Budget Approved

Warnings Posted At Lovers Point

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Poo in the water. Do you think that these people in the unmarked truck that are pressure washing the buildings and sidewalks should recover their rinse water and dispose of it properly instead of letting it run down the storm drains to the ocean? Do the Pacific Grove business owners even care?

Washing Sidewalks at Nancy’s Attic and Glenn Gobel frames

Sidewalk Washers

Washing facade and sidewalks at Chase bank

Chase Washers

Water from storm drain goes:
Lovers Point Sewer Pipe

County health officials are warning visitors to Lovers Point Beach to avoid going in the water after tests Monday found higher than normal levels of bacteria.

Health officials say humans and animals including seals, otters and birds can contribute to higher bacteria levels in addition to rainfall runoff and storm drains.

Warnings Posted At Lovers Point

How To Prepare For AT&T UVerse Install

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Frequently asked question, how do I get ready for that new Internet and TV service from AT$T? As a public service, here you go:

Holding The ATT Banner

Prepare to have your sidewalks blocked while they tear up the place:
Att Uverse Blocking Sidewalk

Then get ready to have your landscaping scalped:
Att Uverse Kills Shrubs
And prepare to have some big graffiti attracting humming cabinets plopped down on every corner:
Att Uverse More Pedestals

Prepare to have your actions monitored

Att Spies Nsa

And prepare to be underwhelmed by DSL that is faster than Red Shift but still way slower than cable. Currently only the subscribers that are within a certain distance of those cabinets can get 2 high definition channels at the same time, and if you do watch or record your 2 concurrent HD channels, your internet slows down.

Prepare to be flooded with ads, and be told that Uverse is “fiber”. It’s fiber to the humming box, then it’s passed on to the old copper lines to your home.

Prepare to pay for 16 meg down and only get 6, because you live farther from the humming box. Guess what? Both pay the same no matter what speed of service you get.

You’re welcome!

How To Prepare For AT&T UVerse Install

Monterey Optimistic About US Open Tourists

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Unlike the dreary picture painted by Moe Ammar, things are more upbeat across the border.

Although getting reservations was a bit challenging this time around, for a local restaurant it was more challenging back in 2000.

“We were not even half as busy with our reservations as we are this year in 2010, big increase in reservations,” said Joanne Marshall, manager at Fish Hopper.

“Of course its helping our staff, we have extra staff so it’s really helping us all around and bringing our folks out to Cannery Row to see what we have out here,” said Marshall.

Monterey Optimistic About US Open Tourists

Moe Predicts A Bad US Open Windfall

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Moe blathers from his butt about this month’s “greatest thin that could happen”. Pacific Grove could have more revenues if they’d bring in what people want when they are visiting.

Moe Ammar believes the U.S. Open will be “the greatest thing that could happen” to the local economy.

But Ammar, president of the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce, is the first to admit that this year’s U.S. Open won’t be as lucrative as 2000, the last time the tournament came to Pebble Beach.

While many hotel rooms on the Peninsula were reserved long ago for U.S. Open week, there are rooms to be had with tournament play just four days away.

Ammar’s survey last week showed Pacific Grove’s 28 hotels and motels are 81 percent booked for the U.S. Open — down from 96 percent a week before the 2000 tournament.

Moe Predicts A Bad US Open Windfall