Dear Readers,

In the aftermath of the tragic invasion Saturday of Israel by Hamas, Monterey Peninsula congressman Jimmy Panetta and a group of his congressional colleagues met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem Tuesday. Kelly Nix has the story.

The Monterey Peninsula Water Management District voted this week to launch a takeover of Cal Am by eminent domain. Kelly Nix has that one, too.

No charges were filed in the altercation between city administrator and gallery owner Craig Rose, but Rose says he’s considering multiple lawsuits. Mary Schley reports.

A Pebble Beach resident barely escaped being at one of the kibbutzim attacked by Hamas last weekend. Students from Rancho Cielo are competing — and doing very well — at a homebuilding contest in Orange County. The old generator building at Moss Landing is being torn down — a process that has uncovered some very interesting artifacts of a bygone era. A CUSD parent is suing the school district over the big severance payment former superintendent Ted Knight got. The man accused of burglarizing two downtown jewelry stores is finally in custody. Charges have been filed by the DA against the man accused of blocking Highway 1 and other bizarre behavior in late September. A woman accused of stealing two dogs will be prosecuted for "grand theft dog." The Carmel planning commission has approved a home near the Carl Cherry Center despite neighbors’ objections. The P.G. planning commission says the former NOAA building site should not be upzoned for multi-family housing. The Carmel Residents Association has scheduled a town meeting with State Sen. John Laird and Assemblymember Dawn Addis on the state’s new housing mandates (which they both voted for). Neal Hotelling examines the very tumultuous political history of Monterey when it was part of Mexico. Dennis Taylor says Peninsula high schools have reasons to be optimistic about the outlook for their field hockey teams. Jerry Gervase says you can stay busy if you concentrate on not doing anything. And my editorial says the courts have become major players in the state’s push to undo CEQA.

Paul Miller, Publisher
paul@carmelpinecone.com

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