A man was robbed at gunpoint in front of his Pacific Grove home Saturday night, police said.
The victim, identified only as a male, was in front of his home in the 800 block of Walnut Street at 8:30 p.m. when two unidentified men approached him. One of the men grabbed the victim, pointed a gun at his head and demanded money.
P.G. Mayor Costello Steps Down – Medical Causes
Our Cobra driving Mayor
Jim Costello announced Thursday that he will step down after nearly two years as Pacific Grove’s mayor to focus on his battle with bone cancer.
“It has been my pleasure to serve the people of Pacific Grove for over 11 years, but as I leave office I know the city is in good hands,” said Costello in a written statement.
Costello will also retire from his duties as a teacher at Pacific Grove Middle School, where he teaches English, history and keyboarding.
P.G. was lucky to have a teacher like Costello, and a mayor with a sense of humor.
City Manager Jim Colangelo Right At Home
Many Pacific Grove residents tell City Manager Jim Colangelo they don’t want the city to change. But what they don’t realize is the city already has, Colangelo said.
“It’s not the way it was in the 1980s and early ’90s,” said Colangelo. “Pacific Grove was an affordable place to live. It was a place that had a lot of working families; the schools were full of kids. Now, school enrollment is dropping like crazy because young families can’t afford to live here.”
It is that obvious, but no one did anything about it. Schenk brought up creating worker housing at Fort Ord. Oh that’s great, separate the classes. If people wanted to live in C-Side they would move there.
Peak Oil Myth Attracts Crowd In P.G.
Deborah Lindsay – shilling for the socialists that hate America.
Spiking energy costs and shrinking oil supplies may take a toll on America’s suburbs, but at least in Pacific Grove, residents will have a chance to advise the city on how to meet a future energy crunch.
The result could be improved mass transit, a self-contained water supply and a smarter use of the city’s resources.
A May 30 workshop is meant to assess the city’s current energy resources. Deborah Lindsay, co-founder of Sustainable Monterey County who speaks nationally on energy topics, will lead it.
Politico Pay Prevails
The Pacific Grove City Council knocked down a proposal on Wednesday that would have eliminated council pay.
On a 5-2 vote, the council rejected a proposal by Councilman Scott Miller that would have eliminated the mayor’s $700 monthly stipend and the $420 each council member receives.
Susan Goldbeck said Miller was motivated by a need to help the city, but that council members needed to be reimbursed for their effort.
Chinese Descendants Honor Pioneer Ancestors
Chinese settlers burned incense and placed votive offerings of food, wine, whiskey and tea to honor their ancestors, who were burned out of their seaside village homes 100 years ago Tuesday.
Sisters Marjorie Walsh of Salinas and Geraldine Low-Sabado of Fremont organized a family reunion in Monterey to visit ancestral graves and reflect on the ordeals their pioneer ancestors faced in an often hostile 19th century California.
The picture-postcard view from Hopkins’ backyard was once a picturesque jumble of wooden shacks on stilts that enthralled landscape painters and offended the white residents of Monterey and Pacific Grove.
The fire that destroyed the village ended a long-standing campaign by the Pacific Improvement Co. to get the Chinese to move elsewhere. Histories of the village indicate that it had burned twice in its 50-year existence before the 1906 fire finished it off.
Olinger Slaying Suspect Has Criminal Record
A spokeswoman for the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Tuesday that Jacobo Ruelas, 27, pleaded no contest to carjacking and robbery charges in that county in 1998 and was sentenced to six years in state prison.
Lana Wyant said Ruelas committed the robbery on May 5, 1998, and the carjacking on May 7, 1998. Details of the crimes were not available Tuesday afternoon.
While Ruelas did not enter a plea Tuesday, Martinez said he is denying guilt. The Salinas lawyer said Ruelas was raised by hardworking parents in Soledad and graduated from Gonzalez High School.
Rug Sale Tackiness Comes To P.G.
What’s the business with less credibility than used car sales?
Yep, the Magic Carpet business. Sale Signs that scream “LOST OUR LEASE”, “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS” or “LIQUIDATION SALE” are common either in print ad or on the store front.
See, every one of them does it, here is P.G.’s own:
No fewer than 11 signs shouting “REMODELING SALE”, right at the crossroads of the downtown. They win the prize for tacky storefront, formerly held by 17th Street Grill for the year round X-mas lights.
About 3 months later, the signs came down and the windows were covered with butcher paper. Later the store boasted a new front door. Some remodel.
Magic Carpet In Raging Bloom
Suspect In Olinger Slaying Arrested
Shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, officers arrested Jacobo Ruelas, a suspect in the nearly nine-year-old slaying of Kristopher Olinger, a 17-year-old who was beaten and stabbed to death on the Pacific Grove Recreation Trail in 1997.
After a three-hour search near Bradley, a small town in south Monterey County, a SWAT team made up of sheriff’s deputies, six Pacific Grove police officers, California Highway Patrol and state parks’ officers arrested Ruelas, of Soledad, on a $3 million arrest warrant issued Friday in connection with the murder.