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Until the man vandalizing Diamond St. businesses is caught residents might want to avoid putting mail in the post boxes at BART, a postal employee says. She was picking up mail at Glen Park Mail Depot Thursday afternoon and said that  someone has twice poured cleaning liquids and other material into the post boxes there. “Dropping off […]

Greetings to all from the Friends of Sunnyside Conservatory; October has begun! We hope you will mark your calendar and join us for the following events: • We will have a wonderful concert, a presentation by the “Horns-A-Plenty”, on October 25th. This 5 piece brass ensemble is redefining what it is to be a brass […]

From Eric Whittington at Bird & Beckett Books on Chenery: It’s a big weekend coming up… the playoffs get underway Saturday with the Giants hosting the Reds… Hardly Strictly Bluegrass runs Friday through Sunday… Litquake starts Friday and runs for eight or ten days. When will you find time to come to your neighborhood bookshop? […]

Photo by Carolyn Deacy 8:20 Update From Michael Rice I just went over to the park. What I saw was startling. One tree had broken off about  20 feet up the trunk, fallen to the south, and hit a second tree, also about 20 feet up. The second tree fell all over the the road. […]

An email by Sup. Scott Weiner about notices that have been circulating in the neighborhood of late. ======================== In the past week, I’ve received a number of emails from constituents concerned about tree removal in Glen Canyon in connection with the upcoming project to upgrade and make changes to recreational facilities in the area of […]

By Elizabeth Weise For a week now, an early-morning vandal has been attacking Glen Park businesses on Diamond Street, setting fires, smearing excrement on store fronts, smashing windows and doors and disabling locks. Both the police and fire department are investigating and they ask that all tips be called in to the police tips line […]

To GPA members – Support Prop B and help get out the vote  Proposition B – the Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks Bonds measure will support park improvements across San Francisco and fund the completion of the Glen Canyon Park Improvement Plan. The measure will complement the $6 million already committed to the Rec Center […]

By Murray Schneider The Glen Park volunteers had already spent two hours Wednesday morning using three-pronged rakes or unraveled by hand hundreds of invasive Cape ivy tendrils. Enthusiasm undiminished, Recreation and Parks Natural Areas Program manager Rachel Kesel checked her watch and told the group “I think we still have time to pull pokeweed.” Kesel […]

Ric Lopez, president of the Glen Park Merchants Association, reports “We have had fires in the Village Merchant District… GLEN PARK MAIL DEPOT, GLEN PARK MARKET AND CITIBANK have been involved in fires set in or in front of their business. If you see anything suspicious, please notify the police. THANK YOU “ Flaming newspapers rammed into […]

The drain in front of our house backed up last week and stuff straight out of our toilet began spewing onto the sidewalk. I called a plumber who told me it was the city’s issue because it was their side of the drain. I called 311 and (I am not kidding) ten minutes later the […]