Police said Mary Goldbeck, 18, and two 15-year-old boys were taken into custody in connection with a house burglary in the 900 block of Fountain Avenue.
Investigators found stolen property in Goldbeck’s possession, police said, adding that some of the recovered items were taken from unlocked vehicles in recent weeks.
When will they leave? Please, do us a favor and leave.
We are old farts, but my wife got a $200 ticket (first one in 15 years). She was bringing our 7 year old home from school. She drives very slowly. But coming down a slight grade, her speed went up to 37 or 38 mph. The ticket said approximately 40 in a 25 mph zone. I think The Pine Cone, which has page after page of police reports, should find out the true motivation for this unnecessary and unfair enforcement.
Ehhh, the true motivation is to make the roads safe. Pay the ticket and slow down next time.
Or there’s oil under all that kelp, when do we begin drilling?
Large clumps of tar are washing up at Asilomar State Beach in Pacific Grove, above, and several other beaches stretching north into San Mateo County. The source of the sticky tar is yet to be determined.
Tar balls are washing ashore on Central Coast beaches, and while scientists are not sure why, they have a pretty good idea.
From Asilomar State Beach in the south to Moss Beach in San Mateo County, the tar deposits are believed to be naturally occurring, said Dana Michaels, spokeswoman for the Department of Fish and Game.
Before anyone gets all evrio-mental, they were naturally occurring. KION Reports:
02/26/07
State officials believe that the tar balls that have washed up on beaches stretching from San Francisco to Monterey County are naturally occurring and not the result of an offshore oil spill, a California Department of Fish and Game spokesman said Friday.
The blast blew out the shop’s windows and pushed an external wall six inches out of line, he said.
The fire crew shut down everything within 1,000 feet of the shop, bringing surrounding businesses and traffic to a halt, Miller said. After determining that the explosion was caused by a gas leak, the crew closed off natural gas lines and informed Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and the health department.
The fate of a Monterey massage parlor, where masseuses allegedly offered sex along with their shiatsu massage and body shampoos, lies in the hands of the City Council this evening.
V.I.P. Massage, located at 580 Casanova Ave., faces the loss of its license after a masseuse offered to perform a range of sex acts on a Monterey police officer during an undercover sting in October, according to police reports.
During the bust, police said they also found a masseuse practicing without a license and alcohol being served illegally, their reports said.
Would not be notable here except must note the name of the shop owner, Un Suk Zipperer.
Both Marina and Seaside now have temporary moratoriums in effect against such clinics — actions prompted by inquiries last year about the possibility of locating them there.
City staff members say medical marijuana clinics wouldn’t promote Marina’s general plan policies. The clinics wouldn’t generate sale taxes and could prevent tax-generating businesses from finding space in the city.
I don’t oppose the use of pot, but these clinics are rife with corruption and attract crime to the area.
Grow your own.
The Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce will likewise host shuttle services to bring visitors into town and encourage them to linger. Last year, it transported more than 2,500.
Of the 1,110 guest rooms in Pacific Grove, all but 102 had been sold as of Friday afternoon, which is about the same as the past two years, Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce President Moe Ammar said.
Ammar said the impact of the AT&T goes beyond the event itself, as fans who enjoyed their time on the Peninsula later return to the area with family and friends.
Tell me, does this look like Last Home Town Hospitality?
Don’t you dare park in the often empty lot behind Holmans.
And please leave your valuables back in your parked car where it will sit on the street for eight hours.
The rudeness does not stop in PG, here’s a bit from a letter in the Hear-old
2/15/07
Limiting snacks
We can understand the security reasons for limiting the size of bag people were allowed to bring to the AT&T golf tournament. However, we were turned away at the bus in Fort Ord for having snacks and water inside our bag that was smaller than the size limitation….I guess last year was our last visit to the AT&T.
For the second time in a weekend, parts of Monterey and Pacific Grove were plunged into darkness Sunday night.
“It just happened to have affected a lot of the same people,” a PG&E spokeswoman said.
The latest outage was caused by fallen wires at David Avenue and Fillmore Street at the Monterey-Pacific Grove border, and was apparently unrelated to a power loss Saturday.
At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, more than 4,000 Monterey residents and most businesses on Cannery Row were again left without power after a similar outage the night before.
When Saturday’s outage first occurred, there was some speculation that a car that had struck a power pole on Asilomar Avenue might have been the cause, the PG&E spokeswoman said, but that scenario was quickly ruled out.
Repair crews determined, she said, that a below-ground equipment failure caused a transformer to explode near Fremont Street and Ramona Avenue in Monterey.
Tidepool Nazis favor erosion instead?
Pacific Grove has halted spraying invasive iceplant with a well known herbicide because of concerns by environmentalists the chemical could harm endangered species and the coastal environment.
P.G. City Council requested Rana Creek, the Carmel Valley environmental planning company hired to restore the dunes, provide a report that includes the effects of Roundup, a commercial herbicide, on the environment.
“To kill this much iceplant,” said Lee Willoughby, one of several Pacific Grove residents concerned with the use of Roundup, “there has to be some runoff, and it goes right into the tidepools. I think it’s a major concern.”
Former Pacific Grove City Councilwoman Susan Goldbeck wrote a letter to the city requesting more information about the use of the herbicide.“Of particular interest is,” Goldbeck wrote, “who is doing the Roundup and when are the planned applications?”
Rana Creek is currently preparing the report, which will be presented to council members March 7.
Bruce Cowan explains in great detail in a letter from the Carmel Pine Cone
What does glyphosphate do? It is an enzyme inhibitor in the photosynthetic pathway (shikimic acid pathway) that prevents the formation of lignins. Plants normally convert sugars (simple carbohydrates made in photosynthesis) to complex chains of carbohydrates (cellulose, lignin). Animals do not make cellulose or have cellulose in their tissue structure; it is only found in plants, fungi and bacteria. Without cellulose or lignins, plants collapse and die. Animals don’t have cellulose or that photosynthetic pathway, so glyphosphate is without effect.
Dan McAweeney of DMC Construction, a company that’s been the focus of intense picketing by the local carpenters union for nearly two years, is calling for an end to the protest.
Since July 2005, Carpenters Union Local 605 has been involved in a picketing campaign against DMC, because DMC pays its employees based on merit and skill, as opposed to a “prevailing wage,” something the union objects to.
“We want it to stop,” said Dan McAweeney, president of DMC Construction Inc. “It’s obnoxious and embarrassing, and it’s gone on long enough.”
The picketers, mostly immigrants from Mexico and other Latin American countries, are not union members and are paid solely to picket.
They are gone. Thankfully.