We’ve been behind and illuminating a number of OB issues we helped save the OB Library from Mayor Sanders’ budget cuts we were instrumental in preserving the icons of the beach – the firepits one year we made OB’s homelessness into a civil rights issue – and caught hell for it we’ve been providing notices and reports of the OB Planning Board meetings we have pushed for a consensus resolution of the marshmallow fight controversy with our ‘news from Newport’ reports, we catch everyone up on changes among the merchants on OB’s business streets and lately we’ve provided a discussion and information post for such things as CVS Pharmacy moving into the former Apple Tree Market.
Yet, we’ve been at it, expanding, learning, teaching. We can pay our bills from ads, T-shirt sales, and straight donations, and we slip literally a few bucks to some of our writers to cover their costs. And we’ve been doing it mostly as volunteers. These past years we tried to provide a platform for OBceans to discuss community issues as well as being a source of progressive opinion on local and national issues, and providing local news from a progressive perspective. It’s been a great run for the Rag, these last years.īut we’re at a crossroads, because the practicalities of continuing to publish are forcing us to face where we’re at and forcing a sober re-assessment and re-evaluation of just what the Rag is doing. We’ve now been publishing for as long as our name-sake predecessor, the original OB Rag, OB’s alternative community newspaper from the Seventies. This past weekend, the OB Rag celebrated its sixth anniversary – and we had a small party and pot-luck complete with a fire-dancer and player piano (and meats catered by the BBQ House).Īh, yes, six years of being the online ‘news and views’ for Ocean Beach and beyond.
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