Cedar Street Times - News and Opinion for Pacific Grove Cedar Street Times serves the Pacific coastal community of Pacific Grove, California, delivering unbiased news reporting about Pacific Grove and surrounding communities, and our concerns and citizens. Pacific Grove is a coastal town in Monterey County, California, USA, with a total population of 15,522 as of the 2000 census. Pacific Grove is known for its Victorian homes, Asilomar State Beach, its artistic legacy and the annual migration of the Monarch butterflies. The city is endowed with more Victorian houses per capita than anywhere else in America; some of them have been turned into bed and breakfast inns. The city is also known as the location of the Point Pinos Lighthouse, the oldest continuously-operating lighthouse on the West Coast, Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, located in the historic downtown, and a legacy Carnegie Library. We have a gorgeous 18-hole golf course that hugs the headland, rivaling Pebble Beach courses in its beauty at a fraction of the cost.