Month: February 2024

Residents of the 4600 block of Point Loma Avenue in Ocean Beach are feeling very frustrated.

They have found out that a developer plans to build 8 ADU’s on a back property of a single-family house on that block. This is happening on 4648 – 4650 Point Loma.

They do understand that adding a couple ADU units is normal, but to add 8 more units with one existing house – they consider “insane.” What was supposed to be a nice granny flat or a couple units in the back to help with income, has turned into a  plan for everyone to live in condos and not have any green at all. The developer is planning eight 2-story units.

Axios San Diego reports that on Tuesday, Feb. 13, hundreds of flight attendants, pilots and other airline workers will be picketing outside the San Diego Airport as part of a nationwide demonstration over their pay and working conditions amid ongoing contract negotiations.

They’re asking for raises and challenging their pay structure and will be joining picketers from multiple unions representing 100,000 flight attendants for Alaska, United, American, Southwest and other airlines who are expected outside 30 airports nationwide. The industry norm is they don’t get paid until the plane doors close.

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Please join Ocean Beach Historical Society on Thursday evening, February 15th at 7:00 pm as they celebrate their 30th year.

Teachers, writers, business owners, artists, designers, photographers, old time hippies, community activists, owners of historic homes, elves, gnomes, and similar unusual and splendid individuals

Another burger joint is moving onto Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach.

Oh boy! Another burger joint at the beach. This one just doors down from Hodad’s.

Yes, it seems that Burger Kook is taking over the former ChickenHeadz spot at 5026 Newport.

The Pt Loma-OB Monthly ran a long piece by Steven Mihailovich less than a week ago about the scandal at the Ocean Beach Town Council. Since Mihailovich is a professionally -paid journalist — the Monthly is a publication of the Union-Tribune — his article had accurate quotes and more detail than the Rag’s report on the scandal, which all became public at the OBTC meeting of January 24.

Therefore, this is an attempt to provide our readers with some of those details — and clarifications that Mihailovich reported in his piece of Feb. 4 as a way to supplement our original post.
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It was another time, our friend George Janczyn wrote us, “when people thought nothing of going out on the pier when waves were splashing through the railing. We will likely never see that happen again!”

These photos of George’s are from January 2016.

Editordude: Local journalist Paul Krueger, a resident of Talmadge — and an occasional writer here – has objected to recent KPBS coverage by reporter Katie Hyson of a meeting of San Diego’s Historical  Resources Board on efforts by Talmadge residents to achieve historic designation by the state for their neighborhood.

Krueger was particularly disturbed by KPBS’ headline of “Residents seek to preserve former ‘whites-only’ neighborhood as historic district,” because it was “terribly misleading and needlessly inflammatory,” as he stated in a letter to KPBS, which he shared with the Rag and is posted below. 

Dear Katy,

I’m a resident of Talmadge, but don’t live in that portion of the neighborhood that’s the subject of your story.

Every issue of the online Peninsula News published by the Point Loma Association has mainly a photographic tribute to a large group of volunteers who take it upon themselves to clean and trim the green and public spaces of the Peninsula. They’re called the Mean Green Team.

Before the rains came, the Pen News ran this on the team, and now we pick it up as our ode to the folks of the Mean Green Team:

By Judi Curry

I purchased my home in the Sunset Cliffs area in 1967, just as Sea World was getting started. At that time there were no fireworks every night.

Over the many years I have resided here, the fireworks have become nightly, scaring the dogs that live here; having a Viet-Nam discharged military man leave my house in a hurry because the sound of the fireworks brought back all of the experiences he had while fighting in the war; and watching other animals panic at the sound of the explosives.

By Lucas Combos / Patch /Thursday, Feb 8, 2024

A pair of atmospheric rivers that dumped more than a foot of rain over parts of SoCal and knocked out power for hundreds of thousands across the Golden State proved beneficial for California’s struggling snowpack.