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The city of Pacific Grove began an abatement effort to keep seagulls from public places within the city by using birds of prey. On Sunday, the city said they are using birds of prey to deter birds from "nesting on rooftops, rummaging through trash, littering, and leaving unwanted droppings." This is an effort to minimize inconveniences for locals and tourists, said the city on a social media post. The city says falconers will be on patrol with Harris Hawks and other birds of prey in the coming weeks. The city listed the following benefits for deterring seagulls from rooftops: Keeps...

Monarch butterflies are back in Pacific Grove for the winter. Sunday, people from all walks of life came to witness the beautiful butterflies. "Pacific Grove calls itself Butterfly Town, USA,” says Natalie Johnston with the Pacific Grove National History Museum. This year is seen as a symbol of perseverance, especially how they were able to rebound from having zero of them back in 2020. Last year, they saw about 13,000 monarchs, and this year the current number sits at 11,171. "For four generations, they had good breeding conditions, and with good breeding conditions, they can produce remarkable number of butterflies,”...

Lifelong surfer Jim Affinito is convinced a shark wanted to eat him for Halloween dinner. The Prunedale resident was enjoying a surfing session on Monday, Oct. 31, with no other surfers around on a beautiful late autumn afternoon off of Otter Point in Pacific Grove. At age 50, he has surfed many times in those same waters since he was a teenager. After about 45 minutes Affinito paddled out to deeper water about 100 yards offshore then sat up on his board waiting to catch a wave. Suddenly he felt a hard jolt from below that sent him into the...

Moments after a shark attacked a man off Lovers Point Beach in Pacific Grove on Wednesday, good Samaritans pulled the injured swimmer onto a surfboard and paddled him out of the ocean, police and witnesses told KRON4. Police officers and paramedics responded to a report of a shark attack at the popular beach at 10:35 a.m. The swimmer suffered “significant injuries” from shark bites and was transported to Natividad Hospital, according to the Pacific Grove Police Department. Police said the swimmer was bitten in the leg and the stomach. Good Samaritans risked their own safety to help the victim after...

A former Pacific Grove police officer has filed a lawsuit against the city. In January 2021, Pacific Grove Police Department officer Michael Gonzalez was dismissed after he posted anti-Black Lives Matter comments on his social media account. "It was brought to the attention of the Pacific Grove police department that an officer/employee of the Pacific Grove Police Department may have been posting disparaging remarks against Black Lives Matter movement on his Parler account. This officer is the same officer that had controversial decals affixed to his vehicle reported to the city in the May of 2020," said Chief Cathy Madalone...

The Pacific Grove Feast of Lanterns annual event has permanently ended. The Feast of Lanterns board voted unanimously to cancel the event indefinitely, the board president told KSBW 8. “We know we can start something new that can carry on the positive qualities and core values of the feast of lanterns. But with a new name and new adventure,” said board president Christine Gruber. The Feast of Lanterns organizers plan to work with the community to develop another community event in the future. This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another...

Around 100,000 monarch butterflies are estimated to make up the whole western population this year.Around 100,000 monarch butterflies are estimated to make up the whole western population this year. With 12,364 in Pacific Grove, which is the most butterflies they’ve seen in five years. So the big question is — why so many this year compared to last year when there were essentially none? Stephanie Turcotte-Edenholm, an educational docent for the Pacific Grove museum of natural history education said, “The monarchs decide where they want to go and where they get their needs met. So if it was too dry...

The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History is doing its annual monarch butterfly count. They are seeing thousands more than last year. "So the importance of counting is to understand one what's happening with the population overall," said Stephanie Turcotte-Edenholl, the educational volunteer at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History. Every year western monarchs are counted across the Western U.S. The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History counts the monarchs at the Butterfly Monarch Sanctuary, behind the Butterfly Grove Inn in Pacific Grove. On Thursday, Oct. 29th, the museum counted 9,544 monarchs. In 2020, the sanctuary saw zero monarchs....

Only one known survivor remains: 109-year-old William Del Monte, who was 3 months old when the quake hitRuth Newman, one of only two known remaining survivors of the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 that shook the city and the surrounding area, has died. She was 113. Family members say Newman passed away July 29 at her home in Pebble Beach, California, the coastal town where she and her late husband moved to after living in Pacific Grove. Newman was 5 years old when the quake struck, shaking her home in a Healdsburg ranch about 70 miles north of...