Local TV Station Questions Why City Is Keeping Dirt Parking Lot Near Robb...
By Eric S. Page / NBC7 /May 13, 2024 Four months after it was abruptly padlocked, a free city public parking lot near the shore in Ocean Beach remains off-limits to cars, a pair of sun-bleached printed...
View ArticleOB Community Foundation Ready to ‘Share Details’— Wednesday, May 15 at Pt...
The Board of the Ocean Beach Community Foundation says it's "ready to share some details with the OB community" from their attorney and CPA. They're hosting a meeting (they call it a "Community Town...
View ArticleReader Rant: ‘OB and PL Are Targeted by Developers – Time to Fight the...
By Lynne Miller Hey Friends! Some of you know that we have been opposing a 20-unit building in our Ocean Beach neighborhood. The good news is that OBPB voted to deny the project. The bad news is that...
View ArticleHow the San Diego Sports Arena Is Historic
From Save Our Heritage Organization 3500 Sports Arena Boulevard in the Midway area is well known to generations as the San Diego International Sports Arena. This venue for sports, concerts, and other...
View ArticleOB Kite Festival — Saturday, May 18 — at Robb Field
This Saturday, May 18, is the 77th Ocean Beach Kiwanis and OB Woman's Club Children's Kite Festival! It's all happening from 10 AM to 3 PM at Robb Field - and it's for all ages and is free! Officially...
View ArticleModern Horror Show: Developers Podcast Plan to Target 92107 for Profitable...
By Geoff Page Those of us raised in the television generation grew up with images for stories. The generation before TV listened to radio programs with as much enthusiasm, it seems, as the TV...
View ArticleCity Council Passes Compromise Plan for Northeast Mission Bay – and Nobody’s...
After 7 to 8 years of at-times contentious community debates and discussions, of this group and that group vigorously lobbying the San Diego City Council, the council on Tuesday finally made a decision...
View ArticlePizza Port Ocean Beach Celebrates 14 Years — Saturday, May 18
Pizza Port Ocean Beach is celebrating its 14th anniversary this Saturday, May 18. Their ad says it's "an epic celebration of 14 delicious years," and that "It’s not just an anniversary party—it’s a day...
View Article‘Why People Have Stopped Buying Vacation Rentals in San Diego’
A very interesting article by Phillip Molner at the Union-Tribune yesterday described why so many people have stopped buying vacation rental homes in San Diego. (It's only for subscribers, so there's...
View ArticleNew Surveillance Technology to Replace Cameras at OB Pier and Around Mission...
Tuesday, May 14, the San Diego City Council approved the fire department lifeguard services division to buy upgraded surveillance technology to replace existing cameras around Mission Bay and the Ocean...
View ArticleResistance is Not Futile, San Diego
By Colleen O'Connor More resistance to the Mayor’s mega plans for neighborhoods is afoot. Not just North Park’s frustration over the high-rise, no parking, increased bicycle lanes and tone deaf “push...
View ArticleOB Weekly Vigil for Ceasefire in Gaza — Saturday, May 18
This Saturday, May 18th, 2024 at Noon in Ocean Beach !! Come join a growing number of your friends and neighbors, 45 folks last Saturday, our largest group yet, standing out on a busy corner in Ocean...
View ArticlePoint Loma’s Portuguese Festa 2024
It's More Than Just The “Wow” Dresses By Colleen O'Connor The annual Portuguese Festa de Espirito Santo has a 100 plus year tradition. It is family oriented, based in devout Catholicism, an affinity...
View ArticleThe OB Kite Festival 2024 — A Video
Check out Charles Landon's video on the OB Kite Festival.
View ArticleUpdate on Status of OB Town Council and OB Community Foundation
The following is from the Board of the OBCF May 15 Town Hall Recap: Public Statement Regarding the Status of OBTC & OBCF The Ocean Beach Community Foundation held a town hall meeting on Wednesday,...
View ArticleCheswicks to Close After Memorial Weekend – Will Reopen With New Name and New...
From SanDiegoVille / May 20, 2024 The tiny biker bar with a big window, San Diego's decades-old Cheswick's West is under new ownership in Ocean Beach and will soon close to rebrand into a different...
View ArticleAppeal of 7-Story, 223 Unit Building with 15% Affordable at Perry’s Cafe —...
The City of San Diego has notified the public that the City Council will hear an appeal of the decision to approve a 223-dwelling-unit, seven-story building at Perry's Cafe on Tuesday, June 4th in...
View ArticleIt Was Always the Plan: City Council Votes 8-1 to Silence Critics of...
By Mat Wahlstrom Perhaps the only surprise about the foregone decision by the City Council yesterday to disenfranchise the citizens of Uptown was how messy it was. For those who don’t know: back in...
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