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Picture this: The Detroit Street steps with amazing tile work

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The Detroit Steps Project continues making giant strides. Launched on November 3, 2018, the multi-year and multi-phase community-led beautification project, with an objective of fashioning 186 stairs with either mosaic or colored tiles, has taken another significant step towards its goal with the inauguration of the “2020 Drawing Contest.” “The contest is to derive imaginative […]

GPA Quarterly Mtg Jan 28

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Glen Park Association Winter Meeting January 28, 2021, 7 to 9 p.m. Location: Zoom Meeting ID: 842 4961 2175 Passcode: 843562 Proposed Agenda: Officer elections (slate to come in January meeting reminder — please renew to vote!) Update from District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman Department of Public Health to discuss vaccine rollout in SF (unconfirmed) […]

Update: SF Assessor announces resources on Prop. 19

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Today the SF Assessor’s office held a virtual informational session to inform San Franciscans about resources to help in understanding the implications of California Prop. 19, commonly known as the “Realtor’s Measure.” Prop. 19 will replace and bring changes to two statewide property tax saving programs: the parent-child transfer exclusion (effective February 16, 2021) and […]

Assessor Carmen Chu to announce Prop. 19 outreach effort

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    Launching one-stop shop resource page and webinar series to help families be prepared (multilingual resources available)   WHAT:              In November, California voters passed Proposition 19 which makes changes to property tax benefits for families, seniors, severely disabled persons, and victims of natural disaster in our state.  In response, the San Francisco Assessor’s […]

Drive-by shooting at Sussex and Diamond leaves one man with non-life-threatening injuries

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A mid-afternoon drive-by shooting on Sunday in Glen Park left a man with non-life-threatening injuries and Diamond street blocked for several hours as police investigated. Officers arrived on the scene and found an adult male victim suffering from a gunshot wound, police said. The victim was transported to a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. No […]

Glen Park artist’s work chosen for de Young exhibit

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You’ve seen his work if you’ve read the Glen Park News, or perhaps strolling down Chenery Street. In the coming months you will be able to see it at the de Young museum. Glen Park resident Michael Waldstein’s piece “Red” is one of numerous Bay Area artists whose work was chosen to be part of […]

Arlington Slow Street Open

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The Arlington Slow Street is closed to through-traffic and open to pedestrians, toddlers, runners and bicyclists from Randall to Bosworth, if the city’s map is to be believed. (Your faithful reporter only went as far south as Miguel.)