By Bonnee Waldstein San Francisco Beautiful is an organization in its 64th year of working “to assure that the city retains and enhances its unique and memorable sense of place, balance and diversity as a beautiful, livable, green and vibrant urban center.” This year, in a gala masquerade soiree at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco Beautiful […]
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Black Crown Stringband at Bird and Beckett
By Murray Schneider Last week world class strummers had laid down their fiddles on the Banjo Stage at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park. But you’d hardly know it from the foot stomping and side slapping that accompanied the Black Crown Stringband at Bird and Beckett Books and Records on Sunday, October […]
From derelict duds to cosmopolitan condos – Village Terrace goes on sale
The condos that languished so long at Bosworth and Rousseau are finally finished and for sale. As their website says, they are Village Terrace Townhomes Offering a wide variety of floor plans, Village Terrace is a new contemporary enclave of 12 stylish townhomes designed and located to satisfy any urban lifestyle. Select a smaller one-bedroom […]
Local Girl Makes Good
By Murray Schneider, Glen Canyon correspondent As the summer ended on August 24th, the Feds moved on Glen Canyon at 9 A.M. in the morning. Eight volunteers from the Environmental Protection Agency, wielding loppers and hand saws and camouflaged in work clothes, began combating willow encroaching above a seep adjacent to a boardwalk on the […]
Lori B. at B & B
By Murray Schneider Lori B. peered from Bird and Beckett’s stage on September 11th, looking a lot like Raggedy Ann. Dressed in a patch-worked-quilt of jerry rigged-patterned layers of squares and polka dots, she ran several fingers through a mop of red hair, which looked as if it were coiffed while fleeing a hurricane. Not […]
Crime Report Oct 3 – 5, 2011
The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station Newsletter Monday, October 3, 2011: Nothing in the report from GP Tuesday, October 4, 2011 6:08pm 100 blk Bosworth Battery Officers Dilag and Abucay were sent to investigate a call of two subjects holding down a third person. The officers separated all parties and were […]
GPA Meeting Thursday, Oct. 13, 7:00
The Glen Park Association invites you to our quarterly meeting. We have a packed agenda. Thursday, October 13 7 pm Glen Park Recreation Center Elk and Chenery Streets (past the tennis courts) The agenda will include speakers from: • Props C & D, Pension Reform • Glen Park Plan update from the planning department • […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Battling the Fennel Forest in Glen Park
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. The green space that straddles St. John’s Elementary School at Bosworth Street between Chilton and Burnside Streets is known mostly to dog walkers and the rare, brave idle stroller; and possibly […]
Glen Park Crimes Sept 26 – 30, 2011
The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station Newsletter Monday, September 26, 2011: Nothing in the report from Glen Park Tuesday, September 27, 2011: Nothing in the report from Glen Park Wednesday, September 28, 2011: Nothing in the report from Glen Park Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:00pm San Jose & Randall D.U.I. Officer […]
Another tree loses a big limb
A Eucalyptus on Chenery in front of St. Johns School lost a big limb overnight. According to the school’s gardener, there wasn’t a car parked in the parking space where the limb fell so no one and nothing was harmed.