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.
Back last winter they promised the store was closing . .
C’mon, Just admit it:
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
. . and shipping containers. There’s two on this street alone!
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.
Must be though selling houses these days. But not as tough as navigating the sidewalks, say if one was in a wheelchair . . .
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 . .
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.
Glad to hear it’s back. Better keep your barking dogs inside at night . .
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?
Tidepool Cop Lee Willoughby says yes, but to tax them out of business so they can fence off the tidepools.
In addition to the city’s generosity regarding the original lease agreement, the aquarium had convenient and easy access to the Point Pinos tidepools for more than 15 years to collect invertebrates for its exhibits. These animals were free for the taking. Unfortunately, there was very little management or monitoring by the Department of Fish and Game.
The real scientists differ . .
My file of correspondence and conversation notes with Jim Willoughby’s Tidepool Coalition about our collecting practices goes back more than a decade, and little has changed. Willoughby’s statements often question the aquarium’s motives. The coalition relies on “facts” taken out of context, half-truths and innuendo. And all too often, it’s simply flat-out wrong.
Should the rent be raised? Sure. Rent never stays the same, unless you have a lease . .
Hardly anyone in P.G. knows that CPM creator Digital Research was headquartered there, let alone the scene of a famous deal in the making . . that fell through and helped make Microsoft what it is today.
Walking tour of Pacific Grove — where CPM was invented
It’s why I try to interview as many “grey beards” as possible, so we can get these stories down before they disappear forever.
The spill was discovered about 6 a.m. near Washington Street and Del Monte Avenue near the Monterey Sports Center. The center and a nearby parking garage were closed. The tunnel to New Monterey was closed, knotting traffic in the downtown and Lighthouse Avenue area for almost four hours.
Editorial by Joel Stein started off aimed at Michael Vick’s dog fighting charges. But the real message is that a lot of dog owners are incredibly stupid about their pets. PG appears to be more accessible to dogs than it is to people.
In the news in PG lately two dogs disagreed somehow when one sniffed the other’s butt the wrong way. One dog died in the end. What has ensued is way too much human time wasted over what to do next. You have the city manager, chief of police, dog psychology experts, and a host of others making this look like the crime of the century. Get over it. It’s a civil matter.
What I’ve come to realize is that what I really hate is the dog owner. Because you’re the one who honestly believes that your dog loves you, that your dog’s love is particularly meaningful because your dog is special — almost human, really. In fact, you think, he’s an almost-human that happens to be a lot like you. He is a lot like you if you happen to assess colleagues by smelling their butts.
While we shun smokers, we keep inviting dog owners to terrorize us in new places. JetBlue lets you sit with an uncaged “companion dog,” or, as I call it, a “reason to fly Southwest.” Starwood Hotels include a whole page of dog items on their room service menu. Maybe I’m squeamish, but I don’t like to order from kitchens that, alongside my eggs, are chopping up items referred to as kibbles or bits.