Lunar New Year Celebration at the Outer Sunset Farmers Market and Mercantile event attracts a crowd.
Huge Crowd at Outer Sunset Lunar New Year Celebration
Real Estate: John M. Lee
2022 is here and like in any other year, people are preparing for the big push in the spring real estate market. It seems like the COVID effect is behind us, and this year will turn out to be a normal real estate market.
New Housing Proposed on Sloat Blvd. Between 45th, 46th Aves.
A proposal to replace the Sloat Garden Center at 2700 Sloat Blvd. with a 12-story, 400-condo, mixed-use residential building is now under review by the San Francisco Planning Department and starting to get public attention.
Commentary: Quentin L. Kopp
“So, let us not be blind to our differences – let us also direct attention to our common interest and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
Police Blotter: Sunset District
Police Activity in the Sunset District, February 2022.
‘Then and Now’: A Busy Day on Geary Boulevard
The view north across Geary Boulevard from Arguello Boulevard, January 1947. The Larkins Building (the former Park and Ocean Railroad Co. Geary Street Carbarn), with signage for T.F. Ormand Dodge and Plymouth dealer at left, Roosevelt Junior High School at right.
Cartoon: ‘Dog Baby Talk’ by Paul Kilduff
‘Dog Baby Talk’ cartoon by Paul Kilduff.
Commentary: Sandra Lee Fewer
A very important process in our democracy is taking place now, although most folks I speak to aren’t even aware that it is happening. I am talking about the process of redistricting.
Letter to the Editor: Improved Shuttle Service Along JFK Drive
The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department has just released a plan for improved shuttle service along JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park.
Cartoon: ‘Jack’s Raccoon’ by Hazel O’Neil
‘Jack’s Raccoon’ by Hazel O’Neil.
Police Blotter: Richmond District
Police Activity in the Richmond District, February 2022.
Commentary: Paul Kozakiewicz
The closure of the eastern end of John F. Kennedy (JFK) Drive in Golden Gate Park has created a dangerous situation for couriers, delivery people and employees at the de Young Museum.
Assembly: Phil Ting
Back in January 2021, 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee went on his daily walk around his Anza Vista neighborhood and was violently shoved to the pavement in what his family calls an unprovoked act of anti-Asian violence.
‘Looking Back’: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Thomas (or “Tomáš”) Garrigue Masaryk (March 7, 1850 – Sept. 14, 1937) is honored with a monument in Golden Gate Park. Masaryk was an important leader in the establishment of Czechoslovakia and became its first president in 1918. He was re-elected president of Czechoslovakia three more times consecutively.
Outer Richmond’s Homey New ‘Common Space’
The first thing you need to know about Common Space, a gift shop and art gallery that opened in the Outer Richmond last November, is that owner Anna Beurskens names every plant for sale.
Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon 