ATC Bella Hotel Team Crumbling?

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Crall thinks the hotel project is a bust.

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Michael Crall, a partner and chief development officer of Domaine Hospitality Partners, the development group behind the project, confirmed Wednesday that he and fellow partner Grant Sedgwick have both resigned from their positions as officers of Domaine.

While Crall noted that he could no longer speak on the company’s behalf and said he had not spoken with Meer since Sept. 8, he did say that he does not believe that either Meer or Clark are capable of completing the project. He also claimed the fundraising practices conducted by them has “exposed the company to liability under both state and federal securities laws,” but declined to elaborate.

ATC Bella Hotel Team Crumbling?

Shootings And Stabbings On The Row Identified

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Just because it’s not Salinas or Watsonville doesn’t make it any safer.

Jorge Luis Mendoza, 21, is wanted by the Monterey Police Department as the possible culprit in the killing of Raul Melendez, 28, who was shot Nov. 23 at the entrance to the Cannery Row parking garage on Wave Street.

Monterey police detectives say Mendoza is a gang member who most recently lived in Salinas. He’s currently on parole for assault with a deadly weapon and is considered armed and dangerous.

Melendez suffered several gunshot wounds and was transported to Natividad Medical Center, where he died of his injuries.

Monterey investigators also identified the men who stabbed each other Saturday at the Blue Fin Billiards and Café, as Joel Robledo, 40, of Salinas and Frank Guzman, 27, of Castroville. Both men were transported to Natividad Medical Center for their injuries.

Shootings And Stabbings On The Row Identified

Cannery Row Stabbings Tie Score

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Both men got stabby and stabbed each other. No winner in this knife fight.

Blue Fin

The double stabbing comes a little more than a week after a man was shot and killed in the Cannery Row parking garage. Hober said this is not an uptick in violence in Monterey and that police have no reason to believe the two incidents are related. The only commonalities between the incidents are time of night and location.

“I don’t think this is specific to Monterey. I don’t think there is an uptick,” Hober said. “I think that what’s happening is two incidents that happened close to each other, where it started in the bar venue and resulted in the violence.”

Cannery Row Stabbings Tie Score

Newcomer Acheman’s Seal Posse Reports Drop In Seals

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Wonder why.

Hungry Alien Sharks

According to a population census taken on Nov. 25 by husband and wife Thom and Kim Akeman, volunteers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s shoreline program Bay Net, the Pacific Grove Harbor seal population has declined by one-third. Numbers have plunged from about 700 individuals, based on preliminary counts taken by Monterey Bay Aquarium researcher Teri Nicholson in the 1990s, to fewer than 500 in the last couple of years, the Akemans reported. Uncharacteristically warm waters, which depleted the marine environment of oxygen and food, are to blame, they added.

Newcomer Acheman’s Seal Posse Reports Drop In Seals

Murder On Cannery Row

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Not much violent crime in that part of the city?

Monterey Police Department officers found Raul Melendez shot multiple times at the entrance of the Cannery Row garage when they responded to a call for help at 1:41 a.m. Wednesday. Melendez, a Monterey resident, was transported to Natividad Medical Trauma Center in Salinas, where he died of his injuries.

“There has not been a homicide in that area since 1991,” Lt. Mike Bruno said. “That particular area of the city … is pretty rare where we have such a violent crime like that.”

Murder On Cannery Row

Gulls Like Ben Harvey But He Does Not Like Them

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Harvey sees the one time the trash is covered. Here are three other time I passed by the mentioned location. He’s also bothered by the squawks and cries of the gulls, but not the smell of the open garbage next to his part time residence?

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City Manager Ben Harvey, clad in a baby blue sweater over a white button-up shirt, strolls down 16th Street with a cup of coffee in hand. It’s early afternoon, and while there are still no gulls around, Harvey stops between Fandango Restaurant and Grove Market, and turns to face a dumpster area.

“This is what I am talking about,” Harvey says, visibly annoyed, yet composed.

Harvey takes a few steps toward a nearly empty parking lot in front of the restaurant, and points to a big, black dumpster with its lid shut. The container stands next to a small trash can filled with a tied-up garbage bag.

In addition to using predatory birds to scare off gulls, part of the program would also include stepping up enforcement of dumpster lid closures.

Gulls Like Ben Harvey But He Does Not Like Them

Shooting Murder At Cannery Row Parking Garage

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Monterey is attracting the wrong people.

Officers found Raul Melendez, 28, of Monterey, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds inside the garage on Wave Street, across the street from the Monterey IMAX Theater.

Melendez was transported to Natividad Medical Center, where he died.

An employee at a Cannery Row restaurant said he heard the slaying while he was getting in his car to go home. The man who wishes not to be identified said he was terrified when he heard six shots.

Shooting Murder At Cannery Row Parking Garage

Public Art Policy Gets Review (the Whales Are Ugly)

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ugly whales

Originally, they were to have a natural finish, but after considerable rotted wood was found, the artists ended up painting the chainsaw-sculpted whales.

Since then, kids have frequently been spotted climbing on the sculpture and its base, raising both liability and safety concerns and prompting the proposal to put a fence and lighting around it. But that idea raised the ire of some residents like Luke Coletti who is adamant the park, which is zoned open space, remain so without a section of it sequestered off.

Brodeur said any new policy is likely to be better than what ill-defined guidelines were in place.

Public Art Policy Gets Review (the Whales Are Ugly)

P.G. Man Flees from Police, Jumps In The Ocean

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Commandeered a rowboat. Not the fastest getaway.

Hop aboard

Hop aboard

Officers arrested Adrian Chronister of Pacific Grove on Friday after he fled by jumping into Monterey Harbor and trying to steal a vessel to escape, police said.

Chronister, 26, was on felony probation. He was booked on charges of obstructing/resisting an officer, possession of drug paraphernalia, attempted theft of a vessel and three commercial burglaries (two in Monterey and one in Pacific Grove).

P.G. Man Flees from Police, Jumps In The Ocean

Wooden Whales Get Weak Welcome

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Except from Bill K(r)ampe. He just loves them.

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Some are calling them kitschy, even an eyesore. That’s how a group of Pacific Grove residents are characterizing the completed sculpture of a pair of breaching whales in the city’s Berwick Park located along picturesque Ocean View Boulevard.

“I don’t like to be judgmental of art but if we can see real whales out there we don’t need to see cartoon characters of whales that basically distract your eye from the real thing,” said longtime resident and artist Jane Flury.

Local activist Luke Coletti agreed.

“The whales are nothing more than a garish eyesore and detract from the natural art of Berwick Park,” said Coletti, about the wooden sculpture that was completed in October.

Wooden Whales Get Weak Welcome