Union Fights P.G. Job Cuts

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Can’t let the cash strapped city control the flow of money to the union . .

A union representing Pacific Grove city employees plans to challenge announced layoffs that will affect its members.

Laborers Local 270 president Tim McCormick, representative for the Santa Cruz-based local’s public employee section, said he plans to attend the Pacific Grove City Council meeting Wednesday to argue that the city doesn’t have the right to cut its members from the staff without negotiating with the union first.

“I pay my dues ahead of time, when the benefits come I’m last in line” – Neil Young

Union Fights PG Job Cuts

Continuing – Lynn Nicole Feurer

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Nicole Feurer Joseph Cupita

In Joseph Cupita’s last moments, his live-in companion was kneeling on his chest, suffocating him, and smothering his face with a pillow as the 81-year-old man grappled for his life, according to a picture painted by a prosecutor during a preliminary hearing for Lynne Nicole Feurer on Friday.

Prosecutor Elaine McCleaf presented witnesses who said tiny hemorrhages in Cupita’s face and chest areas showed he died of asphyxiation. Bite wounds on his hands and arms and scratches from his own fingernails on his face indicated he was trying to fight off his attacker when he died. There was also blood on his pillow, according to testimony.

Continuing – Lynn Nicole Feurer

Check Your Purses! Sam Farr Is Reaching For Your Money

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. . again. This time to lure just what we need, more tourists.

Farr Piggy

U.S. Reps. Sam Farr (D-Carmel) and Jon Porter (R-Nevada), introduced a bill Wednesday to lure more visitors to the United States.

The “Improving Public Diplomacy through International Travel Act” calls upon the secretary of state to enhance diplomatic relations with foreign countries and to advance domestic business interests abroad by establishing a competitive grant program with a budget of $50 million in matching funds over the next five years.

. . individual grants would range from $150,000 to $1 million, with participants required to come up with matching funds and develop international travel programs focused on the country’s top five overseas markets, beginning with Canada the first year and adding Mexico, United Kingdom, Japan and Germany in subsequent years.

Check Your Purses! Sam Farr Is Reaching For Your Money

Lynne Nicole Feurer Can Change Wardrobe

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About time . .

Nicole Fuere Court

A Pacific Grove woman accused of suffocating her husband will be unshackled and in street clothes when she faces preliminary hearing Friday.

Judge James Cadle granted the motion by the defense attorney for Lynne Nicole Feurer, 65. Frank Dice argued that forcing Feurer to appear shackled and in orange-and-white-striped jail garb conveys an image of guilt.

Lynne Nicole Feurer Can Change Wardrobe

Willoughby Imprisoned For Life

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WACO, Texas—A man who fled on a bicycle after burglarizing an elderly woman’s home was sentenced to life to prison.

Jurors deliberated about 45 minutes Wednesday before recommending the maximum prison term for Gary Wayne Willoughby, 47, whose felony conviction a day earlier was his 10th since 1981. He first went to prison at age 17 for breaking into a San Antonio home.

Willoughby, described by his attorney as nonviolent but with a lifelong drug problem, will be eligible for parole in 15 years, court officials said.

Willoughby Imprisoned For Life

Lawyers In Love

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Doing what they do best.

Monterey County Superior Court Judge Robert O’Farrell last week declined to issue a writ of mandate requested by Carl Mounteer to remove measures O, P and Q from the Nov. 6 ballot. But Mounteer, who is also a lawyer, said he will probably file a post-election suit seeking to have the measures invalidated if they pass. “I would pay the tax then sue them for my money back,”

Lawyers In Love

Fatal Holman Highway Head-On

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Officer Larry Starkey of the California Highway Patrol said Phillip Johnson was westbound on Holman Highway about 11:20 p.m. when his motorcycle and a Nissan pickup collided head-on.

The driver of the pickup, a 43-year-old man from Seaside, apparently lost control just west of Scenic Drive, crossed the center line and continued into the path of Johnson’s motorcycle, said Starkey.

The force of the impact threw Johnson to the road. He died at the scene.

Fatal Holman Highway Head-On

The Pie Man Cometh – Jobs Cut In P.G.

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Announcements of planned layoffs were given Monday to around 15 Pacific Grove city employees, including department managers, by City Manager Jim Colangelo.

Employees received e-mails Friday asking them to meet with Colangelo on Monday, when they received the news, said Recreation Director John Miller, one of those who got notice.

Three positions would be permanently eliminated, Colangelo said, while others affected will be offered other jobs with the city, “admittedly at a lower pay rate.” The layoffs and reorganization should save the city around $500,000, he said.

The Pie Man Cometh – Jobs Cut In P.G.

John Denver Memorial Dedicated

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“We have been lobbying with Pacific Grove City Council for 10 years to get this memorial plaque,” Cynthia Doe, the group’s president, said today. “We felt it was the right thing to do for the right reasons.

The beachside dedication ceremony that began at 11 a.m. was followed by a reception.

For those wondering just where the plaque ended up at, check back soon. LighthouseAvenue.com will locate it if it truly exists, and hopefully before the Angry Old People attempt to hide it . . .

Update – All hints say that it will be on the small beach in a turnout, where vigils are held. A piece of driftwood with the singer’s name carved in it is in the approximate location.

John Denver Memorial Map

John Denver Memorial Dedicated

KSCO Owner Puts Station On The Block

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Dang. KSCO has the best signal to hear Coast To Coast in P.G.

Coast To Coast

” . .’I’m getting out of broadcasting. KSCO is going to be for sale,'” said owner Michael Zwerling, recounting the conversation for listeners during his “Saturday Special” show. “You know when it’s time to move on”

KSCO has become a powerhouse of local news, known for reliable traffic reports and fish raps, as well as its charismatic on-air personalities. Zwerling said he considers his employees his family.

But the station — with its right-leaning voice, Fox News updates and Rush Limbaugh commentaries — is not without its critics. However, Zwerling says he tried to present a broad cross-section of news and views, including an attempt to broadcast Air America programming on Central Coast airwaves that failed earlier this year.

KSCO Owner Puts Station On The Block