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 …
October 29, 2009
Ocean Beach News & Stories
Jetty Fix or Foul-Up?
Little dramas from Mission Valley to Mt. Hope
Seven months of countywide conflicts, calamities, and curiosities, part 2.
Cover Stories
Mission Hills
Mission Valley
Mount Hope
Mount Laguna
National City
Normal Heights
North Park
Ocean Beach
Oceanside
Old Town
Otay Mesa
Point Loma Nazarene
Potrero
Poway
Rancho San Diego
San Marcos
Serra Mesa
Solana Beach
Tierrasanta
UCSD
University City
University Heights
Valley Center
Vista
October 28, 2009
Cove Cleanup
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 …
October 28, 2009
Gypsies, Snacks, and “Steve”
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 …
October 28, 2009
Car Clipper
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 …
October 11, 2009
What Sewage Spill?
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 …
September 28, 2009
Hell to the No
What happened to the days when people used to call you to chat on the phone? Our technologically advanced world is slowly making the dating scene a place of passive safety where men and women …
August 30, 2009
Mega Romantic
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 …
July 16, 2009
Pitifully Doomed
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 …
Cops’ Lot
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, …
July 6, 2009
Transformer Taken Down by Parrot
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 …
June 25, 2009
No More Eyesore in O.B.
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 …
June 22, 2009
Permission to Demolish Granted
At its meeting on Wednesday, June 3, the Ocean Beach Planning Board recommended approval of the demolition of two units on a property on the 4900 block of Cape May Avenue. An architect representing the …
June 10, 2009
BBQ Ban Next for O.B.?
At approximately 5:15 p.m. on Saturday, May 23, a dumpster fire broke out in the parking lot at the end of Brighton Avenue. Moments before, a man had been seen emptying the coals of his …
June 3, 2009
Middle of the Class
At the foot of the wooden Imperial Beach pier on a gray Wednesday morning, environmental group Heal the Bay issued San Diego County’s annual report card for water quality at its beaches. There was some …
May 21, 2009
Mesa College philosophy teacher gets used to online students
In January, I began teaching two philosophy classes, one in the classroom and the other online. “The thing I don’t like about online classes,” says one of my classroom students, “is that you can’t see …
May 13, 2009
Rock Paper Scissors in Ocean Beach closes, stiffs vendors
Many of the more than 100 vendors at Rock Paper Scissors, a consignment store on Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach, have been clamoring for their money after the business stiffed them when it closed in …
May 6, 2009
Who Killed Richard Swink?
Last Thursday morning, April 30, the body of Richard Howard Liams Swink was found lying on the sidewalk outside of the Ocean Beach library on Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. Injuries to his abdomen and chest seemed …
May 3, 2009
Cliff Hanger
At approximately 12:30 p.m. on April 21, a middle-aged woman fell down a cliff above the beach at the end of Santa Cruz Avenue. An ambulance was called, and within minutes police cars, fire engines, …
April 30, 2009
Let’s Toast to Banning Booze
During District 2 councilmember Kevin Faulconer’s state of the district speech on April 27, he listed his accomplishments during the past three years. One of his proudest accomplishments so far has been banning alcohol from …