Better Than A Distressed Seagull Alarm, It’s Hawks Hunting Prey

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Until two months ago, thousands of shrieking seagulls would converge on the Marina landfill every day, distracting workers, pecking through trash and pooping everywhere.

The coastal birds have long flocked to the dump to feast on a smorgasbord of landfill leftovers, such as fast food, chicken bones and rotting fruit.

But that’s all changed. There are new birds in town, and they’re shaking things up.

“I don’t know where the seagulls are,” Monterey Regional Waste Management District general manager William Merry told The Pine Cone. “But they are not here.”

Since March, the MRWMD has contracted with a Turlock company to release falcons and other birds of prey to drive all but a few of the seagulls away.

I know where the gulls are, they are feasting from open dumpsters in P.G.Zocalos woohoo seagull
Zocalos Dumpster

Better Than A Distressed Seagull Alarm, It’s Hawks Hunting Prey

What, No Orgasms In Farmers Market Move This Time?

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PG Farmers Market

Anyone for a hot dog stand in front of the Mvsevm?

Next the poor sellers of “Stuff No One Wants But Would Buy To Give To Someone Else” will complain that the market is taking away their customers or not leaving any spaces on Lighthouse Avenue to park their carpet cleaner vans.

Pacific Grove’s farmers market will move a block downhill from its downtown location on Lighthouse Avenue, pending approval by the city Planning Commission.

The move was undertaken to satisfy complaints by merchants on Lighthouse that the market was taking away business each Monday.

“The complainers,” Bennett said, “have won.”

What, No Orgasms In Farmers Market Move This Time

Another Tax With Every Election

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Constant fail, tax for more Library services. Need to pay for more non-reading events.

Liberry

The City Council voted unanimously late Wednesday to place a parcel tax measure on the November ballot that would provide money for the city library.

The tax would need approval by two-thirds of voters to pass. A similar measure for a $95 parcel tax failed in November 2009 because only 65.91 percent of voters supported it.

Another Tax With Every Election

Tree Posse Told To Back Off

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Killer tree

Resident that was once called a “moron” by the runaway mayor Dan Cort is authoring the revision in the city’s policy on tree removal.

“I want to be safe in my own yard,” said Del Monte Park-area resident Georgia Booth, who was a founder of Residents for Responsible Change and co-author of a proposed revision of the tree ordinance — which got a lot of votes from workshop participants. “Large canopy trees don’t belong in small Pacific Grove yards.”

Eliminating the two-for-one replacement requirement was a top vote-getter, as were proposals that property owners, not the city, decide when a hazardous tree should be removed, that no permit fee for it should be charged, and that property owners who plant a tree may remove it
without a permit.

Tree Posse Told To Back Off

Stabbing On Forest Ave

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Hear-Old Reports the fight was about a woman.

Alexander R. Lyon, 20, was arrested and booked on suspicion of stabbing a 20-year-old on Sunday at a home in the 1100 block of Forest Avenue.

Police said they were called to the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula at 4 a.m. on Sunday where a 20-year-old male victim said he was stabbed several times during a fight.

Stabbing On Forest Ave

Fish Being Drafted To Serve

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Super Secret weapons being developed.. now we know why that innocent NOAA office needs bright lights and security worthy of protecting the pope.

Mr Limpet

In a full-scale regional exercise focusing on the state’s response and recovery to multiple terrorist attacks at Bay Area ports, federal, state, and city officials took part in the Golden Guardian emergency preparedness program.

At Pier 48 in San Francisco, the city’s police and fire departments, along with its Emergency Operations Center, conducted a drill demonstrating the ability of dolphins and California Sea Lions to help protect coastal areas from maritime attacks.

Fish Being Drafted To Serve

P.G. Resident Runs Over Campers In DUI

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Timothy needs to be banished from driving for life.

Pacific Grove resident Timothy Petrick, 25, was jailed for felony drunken driving early last Sunday morning after allegedly driving over Carmel High School student Ryan Marden with his pickup truck while trying to get up a hill. The teen, who is the son of Carmel River School principal Jay Marden, and a friend had been sleeping under the stars at a Corral de Tierra property when the accident occurred, according to California Highway Patrol public information officer Bob Lehman.

P.G. Resident Runs Over Campers In DUI

Pet Store Owners Growling At New Dog In Town

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It this not what’s wrong with P.G. these days? Low volume specialty stores that contribute less in sales tax revenue think that they are entitled to some kind of protection by the city. That kind of thinking drives me out of town to shop.

Six small, locally owned P.G. pet businesses – Stone’s Pet Shop, Best Pets and Posh Pets, plus three grooming services – are leading a protest of the chain store they say could shut them down.

“They’re picking on the little kids on the playground,” says Stone’s co-owner Tom Radcliffe.

Radcliffe is upset Pet Extreme plans to open a store just a short sprint from Stone’s, into the 7,000-plus-square-foot space vacated by Hollywood Video in the Country Club Gate Center.

CC Gate video store

Pet Store Owners Growling At New Dog In Town

One World Order Fire Protection Approved

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Retired attorney John Moore of Pacific Grove said the joint powers agency would lock the city into the state Public Employees’ Retirement System — CalPERS — and into a continually mounting liability for pension costs.

Longtime Pacific Grove firefighter Richard Stilwell said he hasn’t been impressed by the consolidated Monterey and Pacific Grove fire department, but firefighter representatives said their unions support the joint powers agency and that service, training and equipment have improved.

“We should not have demonization of groups simply because they got good labor contracts,”

Councilman Ken Cuneo said on moving to approve the joint powers agency. “We should not look at police and firefighters as the enemy.”

One World Order Fire Protection Approved