Monterey Residents Sound Off In Survey

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Rec Trail – a very dangerous place at night.

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That’s the major conclusion of the city’s recent community survey that gauged how residents rate Monterey on services, neighborhoods, safety and business districts.

The survey showed many don’t feel safe at night along the Recreation Trail between El Estero and Seaside. And a higher percentage of residents said they don’t feel safe in parks at night.

While those findings may reflect more “how people feel rather than what is,” Meurer said more police attention to the Recreation Trail and beaches will be possible because officers have been hired to fill vacancies and the department is near full strength.

Monterey Residents Sound Off In Survey

Rape Charges Against Monterey Plaza Hotel Guest

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John Paul Stefani, 38, was arrested in his room on suspicion of rape by force, oral copulation, sodomy and penetration with a foreign object. He was later released on $200,000 bail.

Police said the woman reported she was assaulted by the man, whom she knew, at his room at the Monterey Plaza Hotel on Cannery Row.

Rape Charges Against Monterey Plaza Hotel Guest

Letters From The Editor

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Sam Farr has been our representative more than 14 years now. Under his leadership, Salinas has become overwhelmed by gang violence, King City High School and Hartnell College have lost accreditation, and we have endured our third and fourth decades of water rationing.

But don’t be too critical, folks. Sam Farr is working hard to impeach our president, cure global warming and serve his jury duty.

. . and spend lots of your tax dollars while doing it

Farr Piggy

Letters From The Editor

Letters From The Editor

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From a PG resident, Calvin Rich

Sometimes it seems Monterey County is in competition to leave the biggest carbon print possible. There are the auto races, motorbike races, air shows, fancy car extravaganzas, gaudy fireworks and the freezing of water so people can ice skate. All this to the applause of the media and government officials.

I’ve thought of a few more energy-wasting and polluting activities that seem to have been missed but will not divulge them lest someone actually try doing them. Come to think of it, I’ve probably already missed several already in practice. Perhaps a reader will want to add to the list.

Yes, eco-freaks ranting about carbon prints.

Ecofreaks

Letters From The Editor

Lane Furniture’s 2nd Annual Going Out Of Business Sale!

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Clearance!! We Really Mean It This Time!! It had to happen, Lighthouse Avenue now has a perpetual store closing, liquidation, going out of business, quitting, lost our lease, emergency clearance store in the Lane Furniture location.

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Back last winter they promised the store was closing . .

Lane Furniture Oob (2)

C’mon, Just admit it:

Lane Furniture Sucks

Lane Furniture’s 2nd Annual Going Out Of Business Sale!

Ban The PODS?

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PODS containers — as large as 16 feet long and 8 feet high — are an eyesore, impede the city’s narrow streets and are left in one place too long. “All of a sudden,” police chief Darius Engles said Tuesday, “we started getting complaints that these storage containers have been parked on a street for two or three months.”

Oh alright, we’ll pass a law to keep giant boxes off the streets But now we are thinking! Don’t run the giant boxes out of town, monetize the streets!

The ordinance would require P.G. residents to pay a $30 city fee to use the containers and would limit their use on city streets to seven days. Residents could opt to pay another $30 to extend the use for another seven days.

Treat them all equal – PODS

Pods

. . and shipping containers. There’s two on this street alone!

Pods Fake

Ban The PODS?

Higher Priced Pollution – Pebble Beach Warning

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It’s exotic car week – stay on dry ground if you can

The Monterey County health department has posted signs at Stillwater Cove near Pebble Beach golf links due to high levels of bacteria.
Signs will remain posted until water samples indicate that bacteria levels have returned to normal. Health officials are telling people to avoid contact with that water.

Higher Priced Pollution – Pebble Beach Warning

Open House Signs Block Sidewalks

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Must be though selling houses these days. But not as tough as navigating the sidewalks, say if one was in a wheelchair . . .

Kelller Williams Sign In Way

In Union City the hazardous signs are confiscated:

For the past four weekends, a city employee, working overtime, has patrolled streets in search of violating signs. On the first weekend, courtesy notices, explaining the city’s longstanding sign ordinance, were placed on the signs. Since then, the signs have been confiscated.

At least 50 of them – mostly free-standing signs directing home buyers to an open house – still are sitting in the city’s corporation yard, Public Works Director Mintze Cheng said. No fines have been levied against the violators.

The signs were becoming a safety issue, Cheng said. Clusters of free-standing “open house” signs block sidewalks, while others end up in the street, she said.

But real estate brokers say the policy makes it harder to sell homes.

Oh boo hoo for the real estate shysters.

Lets take out the ghetto sidewalk graffiti signs too. But instead of holding them captive at the city yard, burn them . .

Sidewalk Sign Ugly Signs

Open House Signs Block Sidewalks

Mountain Lion Chomping Down Deer At PG High

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People who use the Pacific Grove High School campus have been warned to remain alert for mountain lions after a deer carcass was found Monday on the school track near the bleachers.

Pacific Grove police said today the dead deer showed signs of having been killed by a mountain lion. The carcass was removed from campus to prevent mountain lions from returning to feed off it, police said.

Lion Bleachers

Glad to hear it’s back. Better keep your barking dogs inside at night . .

Mountain Lion Chomping Down Deer At PG High

Aquarium Evacuated After Vandalism Fills Exhibit With Fumes

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The Monterey Bay Aquarium has been evacuated after someone apparently released a noxious substance in an exhibit area this afternoon.

Police officials said that at least 30 people said they were suffering from the effects of the spray. One employee was sent to a hospital for treatment. Hundreds of visitors and employees were moved out of the popular Cannery Row attraction in about 10 minutes, according to city officials.

Revenge of the Tuna?

Aquarium Evacuated After Vandalism Fills Exhibit With Fumes