Two Painted Lady butterflies landing on Pearly Everlasting plants along Islais Creek in Glen Canyon Park on Wednesday, August 18th. The butterflies, V. annabella, have a wide range. They’re also sometimes called West Coast Ladies. These two decided to make acquaintanceship with plants cared for by Friends of Glen Canyon Park. Anyone interested in joining […]
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No Parking on Chenery – Resurfacing for the next few weeks
The Dept. of Public Works will be resurfacing Chenery St. between Diamond and Elk for the next several weeks. According to workers, each stretch they work on should take three days to complete.
Make sure you get a transfer – Muni cracking down on fare scofflaws
SF Municipal Transportation Agency staffers and City police officers staked out the 44 line at Bosworth and Chenery in front of BART this afternoon. As each bus pulled in to the stop, transit fare inspectors stopped all exiting passengers to make sure they could show proof of payment. “This is our first day implementing enforcement […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: What was up on Diamond St. on Wednesday?
Was there something in the water on Diamond St. yesterday? GP incidents from the San Francisco Police Dept. Ingleside newsletter. 08:15 am 1600 blk Diamond Battery Officer Giannini responded with several other officers to a battery call. The officers located the victim who told them that he was the foreman of a new home construction […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: LaRouche followers’ call to impeach Obama gets little traction in GP
Most people who walked by the literature tables set up by Lyndon LaRouche followers on the corners of Diamond and Chenery Tuesday around noon ignored the calls to impeach the President. Others engaged them in somewhat heated debate. There appeared to be few who agreed with their message. To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website […]
Such a nice neighborhood
Seen on Arlington St.
This GP boy loves his BART
Who says San Franciscans don’t love public transit? Four-year-old Sam loves it so much he demanded a BART birthday party, which obliging BART employees turned into a wonderful, transit-themed bash. Sam, who moved from New York last fall, loved the subways in his old home town. But here in Glen Park, he’s taken to BART […]
Glen Park beekeeper on the Case of the Harmed Hives
Vandal uses pesticide to kill 200,000 honeybees 07-23 05:57 PDT San Francisco, CA (AP) — A beekeeper says someone deliberately wiped out two hives in San Francisco, using a household pesticide to kill 200,000 honeybees. Karen Peteros says the two mature bee colonies kept at Hayes Valley Farm were destroyed this week. Her nonprofit San […]
Greater Glen Park boundaries to change Aug. 10
No, it’s not the much-awaited school boundaries, which will be out later this year. These are the neighborhood boundaries from the San Francisco Association of Realtors, which are expected to roll out on August 10. According to Socketsite, what realtors call Glen Park will change in these ways: – 5a (Glen Park) expands to include […]
Score one for the coyote…
Glen Canyon’s resident coyote took a moment on Wednesday to pause in front of Silver Tree Day Camp, perhaps to peruse the Park & Rec sign warning about … coyotes in Glen Canyon Park. Glen Park News writer Murray Schneider snapped this photo at about 11:30 a.m. while Silver Tree campers were on their neighborhood […]