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April Fools! 2010
Despite years of profitability as the county’s largest-circulation rag, the Weekly ends its print edition and goes exclusively online and mobile.
Disclaimer: This article was a part or April Fools 2010 cover story. For more information read the letter from the publisher April 1, 2010. Seaside, California. It is with a sense of great sadness, mixed ...
Fear, Loathing and Relief
We reached out to long-time readers and locals to get their comments about the demise of our print edition. Their reactions follow:
Disclaimer: This article was a part or April Fools 2010 cover story. For more information read the letter from the publisher Morgan Christopher, former proprietor, Morgan’s Coffeehouse and Ol’ Factory Café: Ha! I knew you ...
Issues / 2010 / Apr 01
Meter Moratorium?
Monterey to consider a ban on PG&E SmartMeters.
The city of Monterey is considering a 45-day ban on SmartMeters, the controversial new wireless gas and electic meters being installed across California by utilities including Pacific Gas & Electric. A PG&E area manager will ...
State sting nabs nine unlicensed contractors in Seaside.
The state of California is cracking down on unlicensed contractors - and Seaside was one of nine cities targeted in a sting operation this month. More than 100 suspected unlicensed contractors were arrested during a ...
Monarch Miff
P.G. butterfly defenders take city to task over another tree cutting.
Pacific Grove City Manager Tom Frutchey set off a flurry of angry butterfly advocates when he authorized the city's arborist to cut down a boxed eucalyptus tree Oct. 20. The tree was one of dozens ...
Sand City's groundbreaking desal plant gets national attention.
After a year of pilot testing, Sand City's shiny new desalination plant went online Wednesday, April 7, bringing de-salted seawater to the taps of the city's 350-odd residents. The feat is getting national attention. Popular ...
Is Fisherman's Wharf's only sailing concession sunk?
Monterey Fisherman's Wharf may lose its only sailing concession—at least that's what Captain Dutch Meyer, owner of Monterey Bay Sailing company, says after a Tuesday, April 6 City Council meeting at which he was denied ...
5 Times 10
First 5 celebrate 10 years, partners with MY Museum
First 5 Monterey County is celebrating 10 years of providing service funding for children ages 0 to 5 by taking MY Museum's Wheelie Mobilee across the county, the organization announced today. "The partnership will focus ...
Wildlife activists head to Monterey for hearing on bear hunting.
Bear hunters are likely to face fierce opposition at a California Fish and Game Commission meeting in Monterey tomorrow, when the commission will hear a state proposal to dramatically increase bear hunting. According to animal ...
New Carmel Valley subdivision unveiled, residents up in arms over general plan.
Carmel Valley’s land use battle is back in full formation with developers revealing plans for a 42-home subdivision at the mouth of the valley and residents raising concerns over new growth, fuzzy math, and watered-down ...
Peninsula water district withdraws its support for the Regional Water Project agreement; County Supes sign on.
The regional water project agreements just won one agency's support, and lost another. The Monterey County Board of Supervisors today voted 4-1 to back the settlement and water purchase agreements, with Supervisor Jane Parker opposing. ...
Supervisors signal OK on polystyrene packaging ban.
Pretty soon, your dinner-to-go will likely be packed in something other than a Styrofoam clamshell. The Monterey County Board of Supervisors indicated support for an ordinance banning take-out polystyrene food packaging in the county's unincorporated ...
Hello Holly
Chief Deputy Auditor Controller Ron Holly enters the race for County Treasurer.
All five Monterey County Supervisors turned out for the announcement Tuesday, April 6, and all back Holly's candidacy. The County Treasurer isn't just the bureaucrat who collects your property taxes, says Holly consultant Spencer Critchley. ...
Earth to Esalen
Bill McKibben dishes on 350.org, Copenhagen and the power of MIIS.
The Weekly catches up with activist-author Bill McKibben, a Middlebury College scholar-in-residence, before an April 2 talk at Middlebury’s sister school, Monterey Institute of International Studies. He’s just come out of the redwoods after a ...
Health Plan
Endowment-funded plan to address safety, health care in East Salinas
A California Endowment-backed initiative in East Salinas will aim to keep families safe from violence and provide health care coverage to all children. The Building Healthy Communities plan will be presented Wednesday night, after 10 ...
Ag Land Trust sues Marina Coast over regional water project agreement.
Opponents of the regional water project agreement are fighting back. Today, April 5, the Ag Land Trust - represented by Monterey attorneys Michael Stamp and Molly Erickson - filed a lawsuit against Marina Coast Water ...
Vandals carve disturbing messages on car windshields in Monterey.
Several Paris Bakery employees came off the night shift Saturday morning, April 3 to find words like pig and rat carved into the windshields of their parked cars. "Our employees and our boss are really ...
Carmel mayoral candidate Adam Moniz says his opponent Mayor Sue McCloud violated election law.
Moniz says McCloud's April 1 campaign disclosure form possibly omitted thousands of dollars in expenses in violation of election law. McCloud initially reported that her campaign had racked up just $640 in expenses in March, ...
Peninsula water district to vote on regional water project agreement, again.
The Monterey Peninsula Water Management District already voted to support the regional water project deal announced last week. But the decision was contentious: Three of the district board's seven directors have come out against the ...
County Supervisors to consider polystyrene ban
Plastic foam is quickly disappearing from Peninsula cities, a trend Weekly readers approve of: "No Styrofoam" was named the best green trend of 2010 in our Best Of Monterey County Readers Poll. On April 6, ...
Officer assaulted, man beaten outside Salinas restaurant
Salinas police arrested a 19-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man for battery on a police officer and other charges Friday night after a bar fight at Chapala's in Salinas. According to police: "Officers came upon ...
Downtown Pacific Grove shows signs of growth.
As the national job market shows tentative signs of growth, Pacific Grove's downtown is staging its own rebound. For the past couple of years, P.G.'s Lighthouse Avenue has been dogged by lingering vacancies. But Mayor ...
Hotel Union Grows
CSUMB cafeteria workers join hotel union
Cal State Monterey Bay cafeteria workers have joined local hotel union UNITEHERE Local 483, the union announced today. The 50 Sodexho workers were formerly represented by Service Workers United and petitioned to leave SWU for ...
Peninsula water district board divided on regional water project agreement.
The regional water project agreement doesn't have the almost-unanimous support its backers claim. Curtis Weeks, Monterey County Water Resources Agency's boss, told media at a March 30 press conference that only one agency opposes the ...
Get Involved
Public Citizen
SATURDAY 4|3 PROP. 15 FORUM | SEASIDE – The Monterey Peninsula kicks off campaign for Prop. 15, the California Fair Elections Act, with speakers Assemblyman Bill Monning and Supervisor Jane Parker. 4-6pm. Peace Resource Center, ...
Seaside Hotel Strikes Out
Reggie Jackson’s team lets deal with city expire.
It was supposed to be the centerpiece of Seaside’s downtown revival: a 250-room hotel and conference center at Del Monte and Canyon Del Rey boulevards, on land owned by Baseball Hall of Famer and Carmel ...
Enlivening Legends
SpectorDance’s Heritage Project fuses cutting edge movement with vital local lore.
To the sound of a nostalgic yet dissonantly experimental bluegrass, four dancers reach, crouch and cringe at wild angles. Their denim dresses recall a time when farming was everyone’s way of life, but the hems, ...
California campaign finance reform starts with baby steps.
On June 8, California voters will have the opportunity to remove the taint of large campaign contributions from state elections, at least on a trial basis for the secretary of state in 2014 and 2018. ...
Brezsny's Astrology
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): I’m worried about your ability to sneak and fake and dissemble. These skills seem to have atrophied in you. To quote Homer Simpson, “You couldn’t fool your own mother on the ...
In the Shorts
The debut Monterey Bay Film Festival amasses a whirlwind of striking short films.
What do a group of teenage girls incarcerated at Salinas Juvenile Hall, Watsonville high school kids and an award-winning animator have in common? They are all filmmakers with short films screening this Saturday at the ...
Record Gains
Monterey’s Duplication Connection marks 25 years of recording big-name stars and rescuing down-home memories.
The shop is cluttered, though the room’s only adornments are stacks and stacks of black and grey boxes, piled high. They look inactive, but are far from it. Each transports oceans of personally sacred information ...
Squid Fry for Apr 01, 2010
Squid Fry for Apr 01, 2010
DIRTY LAUNDRY… Squid isn’t much interested in pantyhose. Not so for dogs, who love to sniff all sorts of undergarments. Even Carmel’s first dog, Robbie, isn’t above that sort of canine behavior – at least ...
Real Estate
By The Numbers
$633,000 Recent Sale 49 Via Arboles, Monterey Built: 1955 Size: 1,585 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, carport Amenities: Fireplace, hardwood floors, balcony, deck Seller: GMAC Mortgage Buyer: T. and J. Hamrick Broker: Andres ...
Easter Rising
Local pastry and chocolate craftspeople elevate the occasion with exquisitely unique treats.
Special pastel outfits. Suspenseful Easter egg hunts. Grandmother’s bunny cake. Wicker baskets full of grass and goodies. Yes. Easter is here, in all its unique interpretations. But with it come fluorescent Peep chicks, the M&M ...
Opinion: One man’s take on his culture’s stereotypes
¡Ask a Mexican!
SPECIAL MINUTEMAN PROJECT EDITION Dear Readers: In honor of April Fools’ Day, I turn this column over to Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project movement, to answer your preguntas. Enjoy! Dear Mexican: I’m a ...
What moment of your life do you wish you had recorded?
Asked at El Rancho Market in Marina.
Follow-up: What’s your most vivid smell-related memory? ALEXANDRA PARKER | Movie House Employee | Monterey A: One New Year’s Eve when I totally broke out in a dance and everyone around was clapping cheering and ...
Mother
Maternal Bond: A mom goes to extreme lengths to clear her son’s name in the excellent South Korean thriller Mother.
The 27 year-old Do-joon still sleeps in his mother’s bed. When he goes out for a night of drinking, his mother, who earns a meager salary by selling herbs and administering acupuncture, frequently pays his ...
Water, Logged
Weekly coverage of Monterey Peninsula water supply issues.
Water is just about the most important - and most complicated - resource management topic on the Monterey Peninsula. The local quest to find a steady supply to end illegal over-pumping of the Carmel River, ...
The best of our web exclusives.
Development Duel…Coastal Rim Properties and Peninsula Housing Partners submitted proposals for Marina's Cypress Knolls, a 188-acre senior development site located off Imjin Parkway. A City Council committee will review the proposals and make a recommendation ...
Sign of the Times
Latest sheriff’s race shootout targets alleged billboard campaigning violation.
Sheriff candidates Fred Garcia and Scott Miller are taking a technical dig against incumbent Sheriff Mike Kanalakis, alleging his campaign violated a county ordinance that prohibits political billboards from going up earlier than 60 days ...
Chloe
Stinky Kinky: Chloe excels at scintillation, fails as filmmaking.
Director Atom Egoyan has lost his mojo and no matter what he does, he can’t seem to reclaim it. His latest film, Chloe, leaves little room for the benefit of doubt or the good will ...
Letters to the Editor for Apr 01, 2010
JAIL QUESTIONS Great investigative journalism (“Kanalakis’ campaign treasurer represents property owners of potential jail site,” March 8-14). When the jail was built, the rotunda did not have the fencing on the second-tier officer-observation area; and ...
Christiane Amanpour has the chops to change the Sunday news script.
In choosing Christiane Amanpour to host This Week, ABC News has done something not only right but brave. Giving the show to a tireless reporter with an avowed commitment to “make foreign news less foreign ...
Keeping the Covenant
Clergy, citizens unite to build peace in gang-plagued Salinas.
Building on the momentum from a huge March 27 peace march in Salinas and outrage from the tragic killing of six-year-old Azahel Cruz, the Catholic Diocese of Monterey is hoping parishioners and the community at ...
Art Listings for Apr 01, 2010
Art Listings for Apr 01, 2010
HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ Transitions: The closing show for the Cafe’s Lucid Dreams exhibit—which, if you haven’t seen, you are cheating yourself—goes out with a bang at roughly 180bpm, with DJ Temo Medina spinning ...
Ratepayers Hosed
Regional desal project agreement could double Peninsula water rates.
Gray skies hung over Monterey’s Colton Hall as officials announced a proposed water purchase agreement and settlement for the regional desalination project. With backing from most Peninsula mayors and at least two county supervisors, Monterey ...
The Weekly's coverage of the polystyrene ban sweeping Monterey County.
Over the past two-plus years, Monterey County's seen swift action to roll back polystyrene take-out packaging. The Weekly's had it covered. *** Foam Contained: Supes make county Styrofoam ban official. Apr 14, 2010 / Kera ...
Carmel Counting
Election personnel questioned by citizens.
As Carmel heads into a hard-fought mayoral and city council contest April 13, the city is test-driving a new voting system. Instead of depending on the county, Carmel’s top election official, City Clerk Heidi Burch, ...
Third Degree Indulgence
The third annual Pebble Beach Food & Wine only ups the excellence.
The better the good life gets at the Pebble Beach Food & Wine, the more difficult it becomes. Really. “It’s harder and harder,” co-founder David Bernahl says, “to top what we did last year.” Feeling ...
Oh Baby
Harlequin Baby takes light antics, dark material to Jose’s.
Harlequin Baby is a rare skin disease. It’s also a Santa Cruz experimental-electro-pop group featuring Hana Vomit, Bubbles, Duckie and Crystal Mess. “I don’t think of them as a band; I think of them as ...
Flavor for Days
Pebble Beach Food & Wine’s finest hour(s) and a youth movement on Fremont.
Pop quiz, hot shot: How would a foodie do the following sequence justice – in three words or less? Yellowtail pastrami with dill aioli by Masaharu Morimoto, Asian steak tacos with spicy mushroom salsa courtesy ...
Lobos Locos
L.A.’s Los Lobos join Leo Kottke in Carmel for a show at Sunset.
It’s a little unsettling at first to see Los Lobos whistling and dancing with Dopey and Sleepy at Epcot – Disney’s seven dwarfs swaying their arms as the East L.A. rock stars launch into a ...
