Closed BART station. Photo by Carolyn Deancy. The The Glen Park BART station reopened at 6:10, almost three hours after it was closed when a man was found on the Richmond-bound tracks. Local television stations descended on the station to report the story and early on a helicopter hovered overhead. Glen Park Association safety director […]
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A jewel in our crown: Temescal String Quartet at Sunnyside Conservatory
By Murray Schneider If San Franciscans aren’t convinced by this time that the renovated Sunnyside Conservatory is a magical venue for listening to chamber music, it wouldn’t have taken much to convince them on March 17. The Temescal String Quartet had no trouble persuading a capacity-filled Conservatory audience of music aficionados this was the case […]
Glide fundraiser in Glen Park April 8
Two Church Street lanes now transit only
}From SFMTA. Photo from the Twitter feed of Filipe Robles] Thank you for your continued interest in the Transit Effectiveness Project (TEP). After months of waiting for dry weather, the TEP will finally implement one of its pilot projects beginning Monday March 25th. SFMTA will be painting the two center lanes on Church Street between […]
Benefit concert at St. Aidan’s April 14
The Bay laurels are blooming
If you, like I, have at times wondered if the bay trees around town are the same ones that bay leaves used in cooking come from, here’s a little tidbit from Friends of the Urban Forest about how you can tell. ======== Waiter, there’s a tree in my soup Arboreal News: Grecian Laurel The Grecian […]
Meet the man behind Bosworth Gardens
By Murray Schneider On February 16 over 20 neighborhood residents stood at the corner of Bosworth and Congo Streets and applauded the Bosworth Gardens, the creation of Surrey Street’s John Priola. For seven months, John Priola, 52, has been beautifying street medians with drought tolerant plants along Glen Park’s busy thoroughfare. “Thank you,” said Priola, […]
Crime Report: Feb. 26 – March 7, 2013
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 7:30pm Arlington/Natick Robbery Ingleside officer Locket was sent to the unit block of Highland Street to investigate a report of a robbery. The victim told the officer that he was walking home from the Glen Park BART station, when three men ran up to him near the intersection of Arlington and […]
Temescal Quartet at Sunnyside Conservatory March 17
The Friends of Sunnyside Conservatory Proudly Present The Temescal Quartet Sunday,March 17th Sunnyside Conservatory, 236 Monterey Boulevard, San Francisco Doors open at 3:30 PM, Music begins at 4:00 PM Suggested Donation $20
Diamond Heights/Glen Park Community Meeting, March 2, 1013,
From Carolyn Deacy, the safety chair of the Glen Park Association Notes from Diamond Heights/Glen Park Community Meeting, March 2, 1013, 4:00 pm at St. Aidan’s Church. This report is based on my notes–I apologize for any inaccurate information. Supervisor Scott Wiener and Captain David Lazar, Captain of the Police Academy (nice to have him […]