Dear Readers,

The DEI Task Force in Pacific Grove is recommending the city spend more than $350,000 to study ways to make the city more “equitable.” Kelly Nix reports.

Cal Am says Los Padres Dam should either be improved or torn down — and either way, it’s going to cost a lot of money. Chris Counts has that one.

After only one year on the job — and almost half of that on leave — Carmel’s police chief is retiring. Mary Schley has the details.

People who live near the Meals on Wheels center say it’s gotten so busy, their quality of life is being disrupted. Laguna Seca will reopen July 7 after getting major upgrades. The longtime principal of River School is ringing the dismissal bell on his career. A solo hiker in Big Sur was lucky that rescuers were nearby when he fell and injured himself Saturday. The Carmel planning commission is backing a proposal to offer wine tasting walking tours. Two CHS grads have been nominated to attend the nation’s military academies. The founder of Save the Whales and the owner of Galerie Amsterdam are two notable deaths. A Big Sur engineering firm has gotten the OK to move to a new site near the River Inn. Sunset Center wraps up its Terrace Hour concerts Friday. As the U.S. Women’s Open in Pebble Beach gets closer, Neal Hotelling continues his history of women’s golf in California. Dennis Taylor recaps an amazing year in sports for local high schools. Our “In Your Dreams” special section takes you inside some of the Peninsula’s most wonderful and historic homes. And my editorial says the real taxpayers need to hear different messages from their political representatives.

Paul Miller, Publisher
paul@carmelpinecone.com

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