Dear Readers,

The city council approved a housing plan intended to comply with state requirements — including affordable housing designations for parking lots at Sunset Center and Vista Lobos. Mary Schley reports.

Caltrans has been stabilizing the rockslide at Rocky Creek Bridge and says it hopes to keep the road open for one-way traffic while long-term repairs are made. Chris Counts has that one.

A man fleeing police drove his pickup truck off Municipal Wharf No. 2 in Monterey Sunday and had to be rescued before he could be arrested. Kelly Nix has the details.

The planning commission and the public gave very favorable receptions to renovation plans for the Hofsas House hotel. Six years after a state law gave the greenlight to street vendors in town, there aren’t any. Another hiker in Big Sur has been killed near a waterfall — this time, it’s a student from Cal Poly. Charges have been filed against the man who drove his car on the P.G. Middle School track. Homeowners who were told by the planning commission they’d have to tear out a bunch of new construction got a reversal of that decision from the city council. A steelhead group is trying to figure out how important Cachagua Creek is. The Pacific Grove restaurant that was behind on its sales taxes also doesn’t have a business license. Sisters at the Carmelite Monastery are fundraising to install solar panels. The Carmel High robotics team is headed to the world championships in Houston. There’s new leadership at the chamber of commerce and the Carmel Foundation. Most of the locals who traveled to see the solar eclipse this week were rewarded with an amazing show. Dennis Taylor says the CHS and Stevenson tennis teams have had a tough time getting their matches finished — much less won — during what has been a rainy spring. Jerry Gervase regrets that he never fulfilled his childhood ambition to be a cowboy. And my editorial says if you think the state housing mandates are draconian here in Carmel, wait til you find out what’s happening in other parts of the state.

Paul Miller, Publisher
paul@carmelpinecone.com

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