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Liz Jacobs, owner of Wild Fish on Lighthouse Avenue, leads the city-sanctioned downtown Business Improvement District board, or BID, which holds marketing events to draw more people to P.G. But Jacobs, the chair of the board, has not remitted business license tax for the restaurant at 545 Lighthouse for two fiscal years — even though the group she heads pays for its programs with the same tax dollars.
OK, delinquent taxes, no business license. How are they on health department inspections or payroll deductions? Place is starting to resemble a grease fire of infractions.
Oh. Wild Fish Has No Business License In Addition To Unpaid Taxes
Sandwiches were so so, Bread to Meat ratio way off. Compagno’s is right up the hill.
Thank the voters of Monterey for their 82% vote for Measure S. And some slightly stupid planners.
On Tuesday, some drivers reported being stuck in Lighthouse traffic for more than an hour. The roadwork created Monterey’s version of L.A. rush hour traffic.
The traffic was so bad neighborhood streets were jammed with cars as drivers took alternate routes, streets were blocked off and parking spots off limits- businesses feeling the pinch.
“Definite business impact. I was here all day yesterday, and I didn’t see anybody until after seven o’clock, and that’s so different for us,” added Clewis (Employee of Ooh La La).
The work is all part of Measure S, a long-term taxpayer-funded project to repair Monterey’s streets, sidewalks and storm drains.
Into high rent storefronts and million-dollar condos
An eclectic building in the heart of New Monterey that once housed the Paper Wing Theatre (moved to Cannery Row) and the Cat’s Meow vintage clothing store (moved to Santa Cruz), is now under a major remodel to become a three-story mixed-use building with retail on the ground level and five condominium units on top, complete with a rooftop retreat for residents with views of Monterey Bay.
Includes cutting down the street trees and removing the stoplights.
Parklet gadfly also got $533,000 in Covid relief government handouts. Is that Excellence in tax cheating or what?
According to the recorder’s office in Salinas, Flying Kipper Corp. faces three liens from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration for unpaid sales taxes from Oct. l, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2023, amounting to $116,987.66 including a $25,209.86 lien that was filed with the recorder’s office Tuesday — and a lien from the Monterey County Tax Collector for $9,765.12. In all, the restaurant’s unpaid taxes amount to $126,752.78. A lien is a legal claim to property that prevents the owner from selling it without first settling the debt.
The ugly parklet blocks the view of the block. No P.G. charm here, just an expensive restaurant hiding from the tax man.
Things even the Squid would not write about.
What a doofus for trying to drive when intoxicated – while serving five years’ probation from the last DUI conviction.
Pacific Grove police arrested Monterey County Weekly publisher Erik Cushman July 28 for drunken driving and violating his probation from an earlier DUI conviction, which includes a requirement that he not drive if he has any alcohol in his blood.
The arrest happened as Cushman, 46, was on his way home from a Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce dinner where he accepted a Business Excellence Award for his newspaper in the Media and Marketing categoryCushman, who in a recent interview for the California Newspaper Publishers Association’s newsletter said his qualifications to be a newspaper publisher included his “predisposition for foul language and strong whiskey,” was arrested for his first DUI on May 30, 2009,
Erik Cushman’s Predisposition For Strong Whiskey And Multiple DUI Arrests
Tourist destinations like Pacific Grove are prime burglary targets. Criminals need a place to vacation to, and maybe catch up on some work while here. Don’t be a Bay Area fool, lock doors and windows. Don’t leave anything valuable in your car.
“We moved from the Bay Area to kind of avoid the crime and to see it kind of ticking up here is very disconcerting,” said Francie Soito who lives in Pacific Grove.
The alarming amount of car theft and break-ins is driving them to take extra safety measures, such as leaving their porch lights on.
Here is another similar ‘shopped photo found at her daytime job’s website
Just the other day I saw a Marina public safety person scraping the American flag decals off their car. Don’t want to trigger newly appointed council person Jennifer McAdams.
And also the push for higher salaries for council members. (YouTube)