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Gonzales High School senior athletes Andrew Zarate and Celeste Camarena have been named the Gonzales Spartans’ Male and Female Athletes of the Year, respectively. Zarate is a two-sport athlete — football and wrestling — who excelled as a grappler this year, placing fifth in the CCS Masters.
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The city of Pacific Grove has settled out of court a $1 million free speech lawsuit filed last year by former P.G. Police officer Michael Gonzalez. Under the agreement signed by Gonzalez and P.G. Assistant City Manager Tori Hannah on…
One after another, neighbors of George Washington Park in Pacific Grove beseeched the P.G. Recreation Board on Thursday, Feb. 23 to remove it from a list of possible locations for a proposed skatepark.
During the three wildfires that hit Monterey County in the summer of 2020 – resulting in evacuations in Carmel Valley, along Highway 68 and communities along River Road south of Salinas – there was little risk to the Peninsula forest…
The Pacific Grove City Council voted on Feb. 15 in favor of hiring an independent expert to study whether the former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration building on Point Pinos is eligible for placement on the city's historic resources index.
Jon Kramer loves all things rocks, gems and fossils, and is convinced he can build a successful business around his lifelong hobby in a mash-up between a geological museum, a small retail space and a mini-boutique hotel inside an empty…
The emails have been flowing into the Pacific Grove City Council for more than a month, over 100 of them, nearly all of them urging councilmembers to preserve the city’s outdoor dining parklets. Message received: Councilmembers said in a meeting…
For a sliver of time almost nine years ago, Pacific Grove had a pilot outdoor dining parklet program. Jordan Champagne, co-owner of Happy Girl Kitchen, knew she had to act fast. “Knowing Pacific Grove, change can be challenging for some…
Monterey County Elections officials announced late Friday that they are planning to "escalate" manual tallies in two Pacific Grove races—City Council between Debby Beck and Tina Rau plus a measure to shrink the council size—and the race for Washington Union…
Pam Marino here, feeling like I’ve solved all of Pacific Grove’s housing problems. OK, I might be exaggerating just a little, but I’ve had fun playing around with an online public engagement tool that P.G. officials are using to help…
As rain poured off and on in Pacific Grove on Election Day, council candidate Tina Rau made a decision to move the party from the yard of her small home to the shelter of a neighbor’s duplex parking garage across…
As rain poured off and on in Pacific Grove on Election Day, council candidate Tina Rau made a decision to move the party from the yard of her small home to the shelter of a neighbor's duplex parking garage across…
Four years ago, Pacific Grove’s actions to curtail short-term vacation rentals came under attack through two lawsuits, one brought by a group of vacation rental owners who asked for an injunction to stop a lottery held by the city in…
Pacific Grove Councilmember Luke Coletti has been sharply critical of City Manager Ben Harvey in public meetings since Coletti was elected in November 2020. In July 2021, Coletti was the lone vote against a new contract for Harvey, saying he…
On a crisp autumn afternoon at the Pacific Grove Farmers Market, there’s more than just the switch from summer to fall produce that marks the change of seasons. A line of candidate tables along Central Avenue signals that election season…
America’s Last Hometown, the small town with an oversized city council that famously came late to the legal liquor sales party in 1969, is possibly due for two major changes come the Nov. 8 election. The Pacific Grove City Council…
In spring of 2021, there were five failed harbor seal births among the rookeries off the coast of Pacific Grove along Ocean View Boulevard. This year, there were 23 failed births. The reason, contends veteran docent Thom Akeman, is that…
Incumbent Pacific Grove councilmembers Amy Tomlinson and Jenny McAdams both announced last night they will not run for reelection on November 8.
Six months ago the Pacific Grove City Council signaled it was unhappy with its city attorney since 2005, David Laredo. After a closed session performance review on Dec. 1, Mayor Bill Peake briefly shared in open session that the council…
A historic moment in Pacific Grove’s history was written on Saturday, May 14 and it was witnessed by over 300 people who gathered to participate in it. The city apologized for the burning of a Chinese village at Point Alones…
The very popular and successful restaurant parklets that put Pacific Grove on the map as a dining destination during the Covid-19 pandemic will continue for at least one more year, after the P.G. City Council voted unanimously on May 11…
