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? […]
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Monterey Pine falls in Canyon, wires to Rec Center down
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. […]
Deforestation or restoration in the Canyon?
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 […]
Vandal attacking Glen Park businesses
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 […]
Glen Park Association supports Park measure B
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 […]
Attacking Pokeweed in the park
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 […]
Arson attempts at Glen park businesses
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 […]
Your San Francisco sewer
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 […]
A real-life heroine of the skies in Glen Park
By Murray Schneider If you liked the short-lived series Pan Am, we have a neighbor who lived it – one who fought and won rights stewardesses in that show could only dream of. Edith Lauterbach, who has lived on the corner of Diamond and Arbor Streets since 1975, spent her working life flying in airplanes. […]
West Nile found in crow near City College
from a Sunnyside neighbor: Bird found near City College tests positive for West Nile Virus Please see attached Press Release from SF Department of Public Health. DPH has identified a bird found near City College on September 11th that tested positive for West Nile Virus. The good news is that San Francisco has never had a […]