Dear Readers,
The city council is working overtime to figure out how to make its meetings shorter. Mary Schley has the story.
Remote controlled bulldozers have been called in to help protect workers from an unstable slide above Highway 1 in Big Sur. Chris Counts reports.
The Pebble Beach company is rebuilding a boardwalk near the Inn at Spanish Bay that was heavily damaged during 2023 winter storms. Kelly Nix has that one.
The woman who calls herself the “poster girl” for metal roofs finally got a permit to put one on her home. A proposed six-story residence in Carmel Valley has failed again to get a permit. Carmel’s city payroll reached $13 million last year.
Two 14-year-olds were nabbed by Carmel PD in a stolen car, and one of them had a gun. Volunteers will be enlisted to assist with helicopter rescues. The county board of supervisors liked one state billl to regulate battery storage farms, but was unsure about another.
A U.S. District Court judge granted an injunction against the shutdown of a Marina handcar rail business. A juicery was approved for downtown Carmel, provided its smoothies have the proper amount of small-town rectitude. The City of Monterey has imposed new rules on sidewalk vendors.
Montage Health has acquired a prominent spine & joint business. Pacific Grove's downtown cinemas are for sale. Disputes over pickleball are popping up in other parts of the county.
Dennis Taylor surveys the prospects for local high schools in this year’s swimming season. Jerry Gervase reminisces about the Easters of days gone by, and explains why they still mean so much. Our Fun in the Sun special section offers a comprehensive guide to the Peninsula’s summer camps, festivals and events. And my editorial says Barack Obama was right about money being wasted in huge quantities — not only in Washington, but in Sacramento.
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