By Elizabeth Weise That Glen Canyon is home to coyotes is fairly well known at this point. They share the park with skunks, raccoons and opossums. But Friends of Glen Canyon volunteer Mary Huizinga, of Laidley Street recently found out they’re not the only mammals making their homes there. Huizinga frequently walks her dog, Chester, […]
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Hearing on possibly restoring some MUNI service, July 6
SFMTA Board of Directors to Hear Partial Muni Restoration Recommendations Input from Muni Customers sought on restoration of service to some bus routes and rail lines affected by the May 8 service changes The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which oversees all surface transportation in San Francisco including the Municipal Railway (Muni), will include […]
SF Streets blog on efforts to turn San Jose back to a street
Bernal and Glen Park Neighbors Seek Traffic Calming in “The Cut” by Matthew Roth on June 28, 2010 By the time the political tides had turned against ripping up neighborhoods to make way for freeways in the late 1950s, the result of the San Francisco freeway revolt, many areas had already been substantially altered to […]
Small Fire at Glen Park Rec Center
Staff at the Glen Park Rec center say someone (they’re saying it was kids) lite the garbage cans outside the rec center on fire early Wednesday morning. There was some damage to the inside of the building, but it was put out before it could spread very far. Unfortunately it burns part of the mural […]
Summer’s come to Poppy Lane
Summer’s here and the flowers are going crazy. It’s time for after-dinner constitutionals and weekend wandering around our lovely neighborhood. Our wandering photographer Michael Waldstein caught this lovely bit of floral wonder on Poppy Lane recently.
Islais Creek may be revived – City
S.F.’s buried streams may see the light of day Kelly Zito, Chronicle Staff Writer San Francisco ChronicleSunday, June 13, 2010 Carved between ocean and bay, the city of San Francisco owes its contours to saltwater in a way few other cities do. But a new wave of thinking about the city’s water future would resurrect […]
Glen Park neighbors weigh in on BART’s thoughts on parking lot
BART meeting Tuesday, April 6, 2010 St. John’s School, Glen Park Notes by Elizabeth Weise, Glen Park News There’s been much concern among some Glen Park residents over BART’s possible plan to build something (most likely housing) on its parking lot on Bosworth. San Francisco’s city policy specifically supports more housing density close to mass […]
Traffic meeting June 10th
Cafe Bello suffers roaster fire
A fire in the coffee roaster at Cafe Bello brought an immediate response by multiple fire trucks Saturday morning. Thankfully there were no injuries and the over-heated roaster and chimney were quickly cooled down. Cafe Bello is located at 2885 Diamond St., between Bosworth and Kern. Firefighters blocked off Diamond street around 10:30 May 29 […]
Hopes for Glen Park Farmers’ Market in 2010 Prove Fruitless
Glen Park News The day before the final hearing that was to determine whether a Glen Park farmers’ market would become a reality, backers of the plan withdrew their proposal to regroup. The Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association and the Glen Park Merchants Association, which were the project’s co-sponsors, took the proposed Wilder Street Farmers […]