(An excellent article on safety issues that was inadvertently left out of the most recent edition of the Glen Park News) By Ashley Hathaway We ‘grilled’ Sergeant Aaron Lozada of the San Francisco Police Department, Ingleside Station. In other words, we asked him a lot of questions about crime. He was our featured guest last […]
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Cops bust magazine-selling thieves
(edited for privacy from a nearby school list serv) I think this warning has gone out before, but the lesson hit close to home (literally) last night for our family. While I was out yesterday evening, my husband was home with our kids. He got a “friendly” knock at the door–for the record, I don’t […]
Dist. 8 race upset: Laura Spanjian drops out of race
March 11, 2010 **PRESS RELEASE** LAURA SPANJIAN TO BECOME HOUSTON SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTOR Will end campaign for District 8 Supervisor and resign from SF DCCC Laura Spanjian, Assistant General Manager for External Affairs for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), has accepted an offer from Houston Mayor Annise Parker to become the Sustainability Director for […]
The Chronicle loves Red + White
Erin Lubin / Special to The Chronicle Red & White wine bar in Glen Park. Red & White: Having already scored great pizza, what Glen Park needed was a wine bar to call its own. Inspired by a Squaw Valley hangout, Peter Bell, an ad-industry refugee from Michigan, and his partner, Juliana Flores, a native […]
Capt. Lazar asks: Is you car locked?
From Wednesday’s Captains Message: Over the last few days, we have been dealing with the auto burglaries in Miraloma Park. The suspect in the case from Marietta Drive was charged by the District Attorney’s office. The important point in many of these cases is that the owners of the vehicles had left their vehicles unlocked. […]
Next NERT Training (aka Getting Ready for The Big One)
San Francisco Fire Department NERT Training NERT My name is Erica and I am the current program coordinator for NERT, the Neighborhood Emergency Response Team. This program provides instructor lead classroom training with hands on components included to prepare San Francisco for a disaster no matter how big or small. Earthquake? Power Outage? Flooding on […]
Death row inmate who once lived on Sussex St. tied to murder
(From the San Francisco Chronicle) Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer David Joseph Carpenter, the “Trailside Killer” of the early 1980s whose murders spread fear in the Bay Area’s parklands and open spaces, has been tied by DNA evidence to a San Francisco slaying in which he had long been a suspect, police said Tuesday. […]
Danger on Diamond Heights Blvd.
Careful on those curves on Diamond Heights Blvd., cautions Richard Craib of the Friends of Glen Canyon. These photos he took recently show the missing and rotted posts supporting the guard rail on the sweeping turn on Diamond Heights Blvd. between Berkeley Way and Arbor, just before Diamond turns into Elk St. “If anyone goes […]
SFist reports on string of violent robberies in GP on Tuesday
Photo by Chris Carlsson/Found SF Three separate violent robberies occurred in Glen Park on Tuesday night, all possibly committed by the same suspects. First, three men in a dark car ran down a bicyclist and stole his messenger bag near the Glen Park BART Station Tuesday night. Happening at little before 7:15 p.m., a 44-year-old […]
Feb. 20: Monterey Blvd. planting — Come and help!
When we come together to do something for our neighborhood, we do it BIG and we do it very well. REMINDER: Next SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 we will be installing over 200 plants into the Monterey Blvd. median in front of the Sunnyside Conservatory. (Compare that to only 75 planted last Spring – we hope to […]