Parolee Busted For Burglary In P.G.

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Nyunt just told everyone we don’t lock our doors. Great.

They learned he was Jorge Gonzalez, a Seaside parolee whose prior convictions include burglary, possession of stolen property and resisting arrest.

Nyunt reported Gonzalez’s car contained numerous items that appeared to have been stolen, including cell phones, a GPS unit and a compressor. “We’re still trying to identify the victims,” he said. Gonzalez also allegedly possessed burglary tools, and Nyunt said he had been rummaging through boxes stored in the carport when the officer first spotted him.

“Individuals know that communities such as Pacific Grove and Carmel are considered a safe haven, and people don’t lock their doors,” Nyunt said, adding that residents persist in believing, “This is not going to happen here.”

Parolee Busted For Burglary In P.G.

More Idiots In Country Club Gate

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Remember the doofus that said he was kidnapped when he couldn’t score a drug deal? Same shopping center.

Initially, the man stated he was simply eating when a male juvenile confronted him, punched him in the face and then chased him around the restaurant with a stun gun before running outside and jumping into a white car with North Carolina plates.

“Apparently they were throwing chairs at each other also, so we may end up charging everyone with a crime,” he said, adding that the license plate number, as well as some other witnesses, yielded useful information.”We have identified all the players,” he said.

More Idiots In Country Club Gate

School Administrators Get $1,700,000 Offices, Students Get None

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Money to pay for the projects will come from Measure D, a $42 million bond passed in 2006 to pay for repairs and renovations of classrooms, schools and other education facilities.

Next time someone asks you to give and give for the schools, remember the $1.7 million dollars the school kids will never use.

There’s no mention of the fate of the old buildings that are unfit for administrators – will our kids end up attending classes in them?

Sixty years after the Pacific Grove Unified School District administration moved into military barracks at Fountain and Sinex avenues, the buildings are on their way to retirement.

Board members voted last week to build a new district office at the former community high school site, located near a field used by Pacific Grove Middle School.

The new building will be about 7,000 square feet, or about 1,000 square feet more than at the district office’s current location. Cost of the new district headquarters is estimated at $1.7 million.

School Administrators Get $1,700,000 Offices, Students Get None

The Pensions That Pain Us

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So, it must be true, that the former city councils are the ones that made bad decisions.

Pacific Grove is looking at a $2.3 million-a-year money pit in retirement liability that increases every year while city revenues remain relatively static.

When the bubble burst at the end of the decade and the stock market plunged following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, income in the system fund dipped while pension benefit costs continued to climb.

“The primary reason we have the current crisis,” mathematician and City Councilman Daniel Davis said in a report he submitted to other city officials in August, “is the city employee pension fund.”

The City Council approved an increase in benefits under CalPERS in the late 1990s at a time when it appeared the added cost to the city was negligible, Davis said, but from 2000-02, “the CalPERS return on investment in the retirement fund was negative.

The Pensions That Pain Us

1250 Pound Sunfish Dies At Aquarium

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The 1,250-pound ocean sunfish, one of the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s most popular attractions, was euthanized early Thursday.

Aquarium veterinarian Mike Murray said the fish was euthanized after it became listless and stopped eating for a week, spending most of its time at the bottom of the aquarium’s Outer Bay exhibit.

That’s about 10,000 tacos.

Tacos

1250 Pound Sunfish Dies At Aquarium

Moth Spraying Returns In June

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Guess the moth lovers lost that one.

Mothra

The state’s agriculture department announced Wednesday it plans to resume aerial spraying of pheromones over the Central Coast on June 1.

In a new 2008 “action plan” for fighting the light brown apple moth in California, the state also said it would likely release a stingless wasp in parts of Carmel, Marina and Seaside in hopes of controlling the moth, which officials say presents a threat to agriculture and the environment.

Moth Spraying Returns In June

Motels Against Public Safety

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Pacific Grove’s innkeepers are crying foul over a signature-gathering campaign by the Pacific Grove Police Officers Association to put an increase in the city’s transient occupancy tax — or room tax — on the ballot.

The city supported an economic advisory committee with an annual $107,000 contribution to the Chamber of Commerce for various city activities and events. With the formation of the Hospitality Improvement District, the city now uses that money to pay part of the Convention and Visitor Bureau dues.

Pacific Grove entered a contract to pay the Convention and Visitors Bureau through 2012, said Chamber of Commerce president Moe Ammar. He and innkeepers met with police association members Monday and emerged with “an understanding that they will consider our request not to pursue a room tax.”

There’s Moammar In The Middle again.

Motels Against Public Safety

Winos Attract Crime?

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At least it stays in Carmel. Guess there are no paintings or wine worth stealing in P.G.

Carmel police are trying to solve what they are calling a bizarre robbery at a cheese shop in Carmel Plaza.

Police said thieves cut a hole in the drywall to enter the shop. Once inside, they went after specific targets that included rare, collectible wines

Pacific Grove Artwalk did say that paintings and wine go together.

Carmel’s art galleries attract crime, now the wine boutiques join the victim list.

Winos Attract Crime?

John Cerney Art Comes To Cannery Row

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Mac And The Boys MuralMention of the name may not jog your memory, but if you’ve traveled the highways you have no doubt seen his work. The farmworkers and ranchers on highway 68 outside of Salinas, the baseball game on US 101 or the 55 Chevy with the baseball in the window on Del Monte – now you know who.

This real nice looking piece depicts Mack and the other ‘Row legends that Steinbeck wrote about. A small bit of reality in a seashore of phony creations. Check it out – it’s at the foot of Bruce Ariss way, near the preserved cannery workers homes. Right about where the flophouse would be. Too bad it’s on the notorious rec trail – hope the gang members keep their distance with the persistent taggings.

Mack and the boys, the notorious slackers from John Steinbeck’s classic novel, “Cannery Row,” are lounging on the hood and bumper of a Ford Model A truck, grinning sleepily, with any problems clearly relegated to the back burners of their minds.

the full-color mural by Salinas artist John Cerney that is now on permanent display on the back wall of Mackerel Jack’s Trading Co., along the Recreation Trail between Prescott and Irving streets in Monterey.

That was the location of the Del Mar Canning Co. — and Dora’s Bear Flag Restaurant, Doc Ricketts’ lab, Lee Chong’s Grocery and La Ida’s Cafe were just up the street.

A little explanation for Steve Jobs and others who never read:
Mac And The Boys Mural 1

The scary rec trail. Don’t go there at night.
Mac And The Boys Mural 2

John Cerney Art Comes To Cannery Row