Scotch Bakery Trades Pies For The Pie-Eyed

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Sign posted on window of Scotch Bakery announces an application for a liquor license. It appears that at least one of the Favaloros have had enough of that “spending time with the family” and are going back into the evening restaurant business.

Sad that another PG institution goes by the wayside. Scotch Bakery was mentioned in John Steinbeck’s book Cannery Row and was an alternative to DeSmets back in the days when downtown PG was more for residents than visitors. Some say since SB was sold it has not been as good as it was anyway. Well so much for historical stores, make way for more alcohol and pasta. For real good bakery stuff, check Pavel’s across from Grove Market. There’s nothing on Lighthouse Avenue worth checking.

Scotch Bakery

Favaloros

Favaloros had a restaurant that closed soon after the owner, Anthony Favaloro was arrested for allegedly choking his mother-in-law there one night. I notice that his name is not on the liquor license or fictitious name statement for this restaurant.

Favaloros Bistro Liquor Sign

Favaloros Liquor

Favaloros Business Name

Scotch Bakery Trades Pies For The Pie-Eyed

Susan Goldbeck Was Never Serious About That $1000 Offer

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Susan Goldbeck is quoted in the Carmel Pine Cone as saying she would pay $1,000 to any Pacific Grove resident who could prove she ever raised her voice or had been rude during a City Council meeting.

“It was a joke. The idea people would call in and ask for a reward is ridiculous. Soon I will be a private citizen, let my people go,” Goldbeck said.

That is so stupid, first to say it and second to deny that it was a promise. So glad to have her gone.
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Goldbeck Was Not Really Serious About That $1000

Ex-Mayor Morrie Fisher Sues For Free Golf

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Old golfers

Morrie Fisher has sued the city he once led, claiming the city unfairly took away his lifetime privilege to play golf for free on the city’s links.

Fisher says he was promised unlimited play on the city’s municipal course when he first left the council in 1991, according to the lawsuit filed in Monterey Superior Court last week.

Even if he was a retired, full-time employee, said city attorney David Laredo, the city’s policy doesn’t grant lifetime free golf privileges, nor does it give a city manager the authority to allow unlimited golf play. Green fees at the Pacific Grove Golf Links are now as much as $40, depending on the day.

“I don’t believe there is any basis in fact or in law for the benefit that he claims,” Laredo said

Or as Snick says (in a Clint Eastwood impersonation): “The only way for an ex-mayor get free golf is to buy the golf course!”

Ex-Mayor Morrie Fisher Sues For Free Golf

You Won’t Have Goldbeck To Kick Around Anymore

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Former Pacific Grove councilwoman and two-time mayoral candidate Susan Goldbeck said she won’t run again for public office because she’s tired of dirty politics.

The 58-year-old Goldbeck, who served on the council for four years and just lost a bid for mayor to Dan Cort, said she’s done.

“I will give anyone in this town a $1,000 if they can show I have ever raised my voice or been rude to anybody”, Goldbeck said.

Shades of Richard Nixon’s resignation in his failed bid for the California Governorship in 1962.

You Won’t Have Goldbeck To Kick Around Anymore

Cynthia Hurley Gets A Year In Jail, Loses Properties

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Before sentencing, Cynthia Hurley, clad in striped jail garb, was uncuffed so she could sign quit claim deeds for her 30-percent ownership of four Pacific Grove properties to pay a chunk of the $975,000 restitution.

Hurley was convicted of stealing the valuables from 98-year-old Lillian King, who had taken in Hurley and allowed her to live on her five-acre Sunset Drive property. At Hurley’s encouragement, King purchased properties on Divisadero and Granite streets and Piedmont and Forest avenues and signed over partial interest to Hurley.

Prosecutor Lisa Poll said Hurley’s actions were fueled by her addiction to methamphetamine and that she had filled King’s Sunset Avenue property with drug addicts.

Cynthia Hurley Gets A Year In Jail, Loses Properties

Cort Stays On As Mayor – Goldbeck, Schenk Ousted

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Incumbent Dan Cort will continue as the city’s mayor after receiving after defeating City Councilwoman Susan Goldbeck and Pacific Grove Hometown Bulletin Publisher Lee Yarborough with nearly 60 percent of the vote.

Was not even a close race for mayor.
DAN CORT 2,627 59.88%
SUSAN GOLDBECK 918 20.93%
LEE YARBOROUGH 842 19.19%

Newly elected council members are Alan Cohen and Vicki Stillwell. Lisa Bennett and Dan Davis return.

Gone are Ron Schenk and Susan Goldbeck.

Cort Stays On As Mayor – Goldbeck and Schenk ousted.

P.G. Financial Problems More Serious Than Thought

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Pacific Grove’s financial problems are more serious than originally thought, said the city manager, who added that services and city jobs might have to be cut to fix the problem.

City Manager Jim Colangelo initially projected that the general fund would fall short by about $700,000 in the 2007-08 fiscal year. But he said late last week that the city will run out of money during the second half of this fiscal year if cuts aren’t made soon.

Colangelo said he will soon recommend new sources of revenues, possibly including funds from sales tax initiatives, increasing hotel or property transfer taxes and more parking meters.

PG Financial Problems More Serious Than Thought

Naked Man Arrested For Carrying Concealed Weapon

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EL CERRITO, Calif. A man was arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon after police found him outdoors naked and he told them he had a tool in his rectum, authorities said.

The man was lying on a tree stump, masturbating beside a nature path, near a Bay Area Rapid Transit station Thursday, police said.

John Sheehan, 33, of Pittsburg, was initially arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure. But when asked whether he was carrying anything police should know about, Sheehan mentioned the tool, said El Cerrito Detective Cpl. Don Horgan.

“You can’t get much more concealed than that,” Horgan said.

Naked Man Arrested For Carrying Concealed Weapon