Dear Readers,

After being shut down for more than a year because it didn’t have a permit, the Carmel Youth Center is on track to reopen soon. Mary Schley reports.

With a lawsuit to try to stop them still pending, lighting towers at the Carmel High School football field were installed this week. Mary Schley has that one, too.

A boat parade and wharf party will mark the return of John Steinbeck’s Western Flyer to the Monterey harbor this weekend. Chris Counts has the details.

CHOMP has reimposed a mask mandate. The Monterey City Council’s rental registry goes into effect Jan. 1. Caltrans has completed one major repair to Highway 1 in South County, with an even bigger one still to go. Another harassment lawsuit has been filed against the Carmel school district. The owner of a Salinas childcare center has been sentenced to six months in jail for injuring a 2-year-old boy in her care. Heavy equipment is clearing a logjam on the Big Sur River near Pfeiffer State Park. Pacific Grove’s new license plate cameras found a ‘stolen’ car. A councilmember says he’ll fight a decision by P.G.’s mayor to ban Zoom comments during city meetings. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife tested oil spill containment strategies in the Carmel River Lagoon. The Carmel City Council will grapple with undergrounding of utilities and the possibility of house numbers at next week’s meeting. A new agricultural research center in Salinas has been dedicated to Sam Farr. Bacterial infections are being blamed for a spike in sea lion deaths — including several that have washed up on Carmel Beach. The city is surveying residents to see how strict they think tree policies should be. A $10 million flood control project in Carmel Valley will get started next July. A reward has been offered in the shooting of a cow. The long-shuttered Monterey First Theatre is about to reopen. The state has almost completed its review of Carmel plan to comply with housing mandates. Dennis Taylor says expectations are very high for one side in this weekend’s Shoe Game between CHS and Pacific Grove. Neal Hotelling has the colorful (and strange) history of California’s first printing press. He also reports that a valuable collection of early California books doesn’t seem to be where it’s supposed to be. Jerry Gervase has the key not to aging — mentally, anyway. And my editorial says ignorance of history may be the reason the state came up with such harebrained housing laws.

Paul Miller, Publisher
paul@carmelpinecone.com

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