OB Rag

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.

OB and other San Diego coasts are once again being hit with higher-than-normal tides. But this round is expected to be the last of the winter season.

by Lynn La / Cal-Matters / February 6, 2024

Describing California’s homelessness crisis as “inhumane” and “unhealthy,” Senate GOP leader Brian Jones of San Diego and Democratic Sen. Catherine Blakespear of Encinitas today announced a bipartisan bill to ban homeless encampments near “sensitive community areas” statewide.

Modeled after San Diego’s “Unsafe Camping Ordinance,” Senate Bill 1011 prohibits encampments within 500 feet of schools, open spaces and major transit stops. It also bans camping on sidewalks if shelter space is available; requires cities or counties to give an unhoused person 72-hour notice before clearing an encampment; and mandates “enforcement personnel” to provide information about homeless shelters in the area.

Once again, and in the spirit of one picture says a 1,000 words, we check in with our usual live web cam sites in our local mountains. See for yourself the amount of snow that has been dumped on the upper elevations like the Mount Laguna Lodge at 6,000 feet.

There’s a new sign adorning the windows of the Ocean Beach Target that has taken some residents aback. It’s a Public Notice announcing an application to sell alcoholic beverages within the giant corporate store.

Given the store’s controversial opening 6-7 years ago, the intent to sell alcohol is just one more slap in the face of the community where many residents rose up to oppose its opening. How so?

Back in 2017, Target officials pledged that the new store would not open with alcohol for sale. It was a big issue for OBceans at the time.

By Michael Smolens / San Diego Union-Tribune / Feb. 4, 2024

Extreme weather events always trigger discussion of how much of an impact climate change may have had, if any.

That has come into play in San Diego over the past two weeks as major storms — with more on the way — barreled into the region. Widespread flooding and damage occurred in some communities during the most powerful one on Jan. 22.