A man faces multiple fire-related charges, after a fire broke out at an abandoned commercial building in Soledad Friday. No one was injured in the blaze near the intersection of H Dela Rosa Senior Street and Nestles Road. The suspect was booked into Monterey County Jail.
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There's finally been an arrest in connection with a catalytic converter theft in Pacific Grove. That after 17 such thefts have been perpetrated there just this year. The arrests were made after someone reported an in-progress theft.
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A world-reknowned author of children's books passed away in her home in Carmel Valley late last week. Born April 12th of 1916 in Oregon, Beverly Bunn, who later married Clarence Cleary and became Beverly Cleary......wrote her first book "Henry Huggins" back in 1950. Numerous books followed that one including Henry and Ribsy, Beezus and Ramona, "Ramona The Pest", "The Mouse and the Motorcycle", "Ralph S. Mouse", "Socks", "Dear Mr. Henshaw" and many others for which she won numerous awards over the years.
91 million copies of her books, which have been translated into more than 25 languages, have been sold worldwide, and she was named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress in 2000.....after she retired from writing in 1999, following the release of her final book "Ramona's World".
Beverly Cleary (who was just weeks shy of 105 years-old) was pre-deceased in 2004, by her husband of 64 years (when Clarence was 94 years-old), and she is survived by their 2 children (Malcolm and Marianne, who are in their 60s).
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A Pacific Grove branch of Bank of America will officially be closing in June. The branch at 601 Lighthouse, which has been temporarily closed since last March, has been at that corner of 16th Street since the 1950s. The closest branches of B of A are less than 2 miles away on Franklin Street, and less than 4 miles away in Seaside.
Although the pandemic is part of why B of A is closing branches, a more significant reason is that the public's banking practices have been changing in recent years....with people doing more banking digitally, and also via self-service platforms.
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