Dear Readers,
Eyewitness accounts are adding a lot of new detail to the fatal shooting by police of an apparently disturbed man on Monte Verde Street last week. Mary Schley has the details.
An upcoming vote by the California Air Resources Board could mean gasoline price increases of up to 65 cents a gallon. Caitlin Conrad has that one.
The Carmel Post Office is finally repaired and back to normal operations six months after the front entrance was damaged by an out-of-control car. Mary Schley has that one, too.
Clint Eastwood's new film, "Juror #2" is drawing rave reviews — with many critics speculating it could be his swan song. Tuesday is Election Day not only for the President of the United States, but for mayor and city council of Carmel, and there's a busy evening planned at city hall. A restaurant owner who pled guilty to grand theft and credit card fraud has been put on probation for 3 years. A judge has ordered that a man charged with the September killing of dozens of animals in Prunedale be forcibly removed from his cell at Monterey County Jail, if need be, to appear in court.
Traffic improvements could be coming soon to Highway 68 between Monterey and Salinas, thanks to better traffic signal technology. Carmel's hotel taxes have increased sharply over last year. A longtime food giveaway program in Monterey is marking a milestone.
Pacific Grove schools will no longer be using a sex ed curriculum from Planned Parenthood. The owners of a P.G. restaurant are raising money for a planned legal fight with the city over parklets. And a group wants the city's entire Lighthouse Reservation declared historic.
Police are trying to locate the owners of a dog that bit a 10-year-old boy. Community Hospital is once again requiring masks. A proposal for another self-storage unit in Carmel is drawing — guess what? — opposition. A student at a local charter school threatened staff with a knife. Monterey P.D. arrested a man who had barricaded himself inside his house.
Dennis Taylor has the fall outlook for a plethora of high school sports, including water polo, volleyball, field hockey and golf. Jerry Gervase really misses his mother's cooking. Great Lives profiles an outstanding local choreographer. And my editorial says becoming a charter city would be useless when it comes to resisting state housing mandates.
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