Dear Readers,

The format of AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am will be radically different from what everyone’s used to when it gets underway Jan. 31 — with half as many pros, almost no celebrities, just two courses and double the prize money. Mary Schley outlines the changes and explains why they’re being made.

The Monterey Peninsula water district is going to court to enforce its decision to buy Cal Am, not only asking a judge to authorize the takeover, but to set a price. Kelly Nix has that one.

Talk about Christmas gifts: Community hospital announced last week it’s cancelling $40 million in outstanding patient bills. Kelly Nix has that story, as well.

The Hofsas House hotel, which has long been something of an oddity on the Carmel cityscape, is not historic and can be demolished, a city board decided. A long-term protection scheme for Scenic Road may be at hand. Charges have been dropped against the only two suspects in what was supposedly an attempted murder at Lovers Point. The only sheriff’s deputy in Big Sur has had to move away after he lost his housing. In a lawsuit against state parks, a city councilwoman from Providence, R.I., outlines what she says were horrible injuries she suffered in an accident at Point Lobos. A wildlife conservation group has plans for a new campground and Andrew Molera. A plan for a major redevelopment of a private Big Sur campground has some residents worried it will be too posh. In a case that has some interesting intersectionality wrinkles, a former CSUMB employee says she was discriminated against on the job. The Pacific Grove police chief has been working from home after what she says was a “work-related injury,” apparently in August. Proponents of stadium lights at Monterey High have notched one court win, with more to go. The owner of River Inn is turning over management to a new generation. Dennis Taylor spells out the growing pains experienced by a very young CHS girls basketball team. Jerry Gervase reveals some of the things that Santa Claus is thinking about this year. And my editorial says that 30 years ago, when the justices of a California appeals court explained why the state’s single-family neighborhoods were worth protecting, they had no idea how ridiculous and outmoded their thinking was.

Paul Miller, Publisher
paul@carmelpinecone.com

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