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A developer wants to find a home for a stained glass window in Pacific Grove, but there are no takers, so far.
Opinion

A developer wants to find a home for a stained glass window in Pacific Grove, but there are no takers, so far.

  • Pam Marino
  • Apr 15, 2025

Will the butterflies ever find a place to land? Pam Marino here, with an update on the monarch butterfly stained glass window that local devel…

Rep. Jimmy Panetta takes up the cause of the disappearing monarch butterfly.
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Rep. Jimmy Panetta takes up the cause of the disappearing monarch butterfly.

  • Pam Marino
  • Mar 28, 2021

Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-Carmel Valley, held a press conference in downtown Pacific Grove on Saturday, March 27, standing behind a podium with th…

P.G. monarch population has plummeted since season peak.
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P.G. monarch population has plummeted since season peak.

  • Pam Marino
  • Feb 2, 2017

Those flighty monarchs that made Pacific Grove famous were back in larger numbers during the peak of this season, but over the past few weeks …

A real and an imaginary museum, a local newspaper returns.
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A real and an imaginary museum, a local newspaper returns.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Dec 23, 2015

Jeff Hoke is the local creator of the book and website – and, really, the conceptual place – called The Museum of Lost Wonder. And it is an im…

Environmentalists petition feds to list monarch butterflies as threatened.
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Environmentalists petition feds to list monarch butterflies as threatened.

  • Kera Abraham
  • Sep 8, 2014

Victorian architecture isn't the only 19th-century throwback in Pacific Grove. The city's legendary monarch butterflies go way back, too, and …

P.G.’s latest proposal to thin trees in the monarch sanctuary raises hackles.
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P.G.’s latest proposal to thin trees in the monarch sanctuary raises hackles.

  • Kera Abraham
  • Sep 4, 2014

Pacific Grove officials are in a sensitive spot when it comes to tree maintenance in the Monarch Grove Sanctuary. Cut too little and they risk…

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