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  • Pic of seagull just before sunset

    lovestory2009: Pic of seagull just before sunset

  • Ocean Beach - June 2009

    jpmizzou: Ocean Beach - June 2009

  • Fishing on the pier at Ocean Beach.

    The_light4u: Fishing on the pier at Ocean Beach.

  • O.B. Pier.

    jeannie921: O.B. Pier.

  • The warmth of the day calms down to the mellow glow of the days fight to penetrate the earth with the strength of its rays. ...

    ablazinredhead: The warmth of the day calms down to the mellow glow of the days fight to penetrate the earth with the strength of its rays. ...

  • 'Gateway to Heaven' -- entrance to the longest West Coast pier.

    summitsd: 'Gateway to Heaven' -- entrance to the longest West Coast pier.

  • My fiance looking out at the OB Pier in a unique shot.

    auburn010: My fiance looking out at the OB Pier in a unique shot.

  • Father & Son, Ocean Beach Pier at sunset. - photo by Mike Smartt

    vision619: Father & Son, Ocean Beach Pier at sunset. - photo by Mike Smartt

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Coastal Commission Omission

Coastal Commission Omission

Neighborhood News from Stringers | Ocean Beach
Published Nov. 16, 2009

City plans for the development of the parcel of land at Abbott Street and Saratoga Avenue have been approved by the California Coastal Commission, but one important consideration seems to have been given short shrift. Currently ...

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Fair Warning

Fair Warning

Neighborhood News from Stringers | Ocean Beach
Published Nov. 11, 2009

Demolition of the buildings at 4868 Santa Cruz Avenue began November 1. Residents who had lived there for years were given notice at the end of June that work would begin the day after Halloween. They ...

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Canners' Crisis

Canners' Crisis

Neighborhood News from Stringers | Ocean Beach
Published Nov. 10, 2009

Last Tuesday morning, November 3, 11 people were in line at the RB Recycling center behind the Rite Aid off Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. Seven of the people were either homeless or didn't have any transportation. In ...

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For Cliff Sitters

For Cliff Sitters

Neighborhood News from Stringers | Sunset Cliffs
Published Nov. 5, 2009

At the November 2 meeting of the Sunset Cliffs Natural Park Council, members approved the placement of 15 benches along Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. The council’s bench committee, chaired by Camilla Ingram, worked for two months on ...

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Poor Pauly

Poor Pauly

Neighborhood News from Stringers | Ocean Beach
Published Oct. 30, 2009

On Friday, October 23, Pauly Johnston came back to his campsite to find all his possessions gone. According to an area resident who lives in the apartments overlooking the area where Pauly sleeps, SDG&E hired a ...

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Jetty Fix or Foul-Up?

Jetty Fix or Foul-Up?

Neighborhood News from Stringers | Ocean Beach
Published Oct. 29, 2009

For the past week and a half, work on the Mission Bay channel entrance has been under way. Visitors and locals have watched a 350-ton crane capacity derrick barge with two support tugs labor at placing ...

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Cove Cleanup

Cove Cleanup

Neighborhood News from Stringers | Ocean Beach
Published Oct. 28, 2009

The Mariner's Cove Apartments, a complex located on West Point Loma Boulevard in the Point Loma/Ocean Beach area, lost its newest onsite property manager recently. A new management company took over and has done some serious ...

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Gypsies, Snacks, and “Steve”

Gypsies, Snacks, and “Steve”

Crasher | Ocean Beach | Solana Beach
Published Oct. 28, 2009

I collect vintage radios, phonographs, and jukeboxes, so I go to O.B.’s antique stores a few times a year. A few weeks ago, in the early afternoon, I went down to Newport Avenue for an anniversary ...

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Car Clipper

Car Clipper

Neighborhood News from Stringers | Ocean Beach
Published Oct. 11, 2009

On Saturday, October 10, a motorcycle going east on West Point Loma Boulevard clipped a car that had pulled out of the underground parking lot of a condo complex on the north side of the street. ...

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What Sewage Spill?

What Sewage Spill?

Mission Valley | Neighborhood News from Stringers | Ocean Beach
Published Sept. 28, 2009

Dog Beach was crowded with beachgoers and their dogs playing in the hazy afternoon sun on Saturday, September 26. Just a couple days earlier, signs warning of sewage contamination in the water flanked the popular canine ...

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Mega Romantic

Mega Romantic

Neighborhood News from Stringers | Ocean Beach
Published July 16, 2009

For such a hot day, there were a disproportionate number of people dressed in black at the end of the Ocean Beach Pier on Saturday afternoon, July 11. The estimated 70 people who gathered on the ...

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Pitifully Doomed

Pitifully Doomed

Bay Park | La Jolla | Midway District | Mission Beach | Neighborhood News from Stringers | Ocean Beach | Pacific Beach
Published July 12, 2009

San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders recently announced that the City has launched a new website at which people can make donations to support the fire-pit program. Despite a $259,500 donation, fire-pit funding has only been secured ...

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Cops’ Lot

Cops’ Lot

Neighborhood News from Stringers | Ocean Beach
Published July 6, 2009

The Ocean Beach pier parking lot has traditionally been a coveted location for RV owners to park on the 4th of July. The lot is steps to the beach, amenities for children are close by, and ...

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Transformer Taken Down by Parrot

Transformer Taken Down by Parrot

Neighborhood News from Stringers | Ocean Beach
Published June 25, 2009

Residents in southern Ocean Beach began Wednesday, June 24, without power. At about 8:30 a.m. one of the many parrots inhabiting O.B. landed on a transformer in the alley between Santa Cruz Avenue and Del Monte ...

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No More Eyesore in O.B.

No More Eyesore in O.B.

Neighborhood News from Stringers | Ocean Beach
Published June 22, 2009

For longtime residents of O.B., their community is representative of many things, from tolerance of alternative lifestyles to richly colored cliffs at sunset. As for the elements that creep in like crabgrass in a perfectly manicured ...

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