That was a long summer. And not in the easy, breezy, long summer sort of way. No, we didn’t get our break, our respite, our moment between the end of the school year and the start of a new one.
Tales of the Sunset: Back to School
Sunset Art Galleries Adapting to New Realities
The small but vibrant art scene in the Sunset District has always been focused on creating a community, a sanctuary, and a way to communicate the current hardships facing humanity.
Shared Spaces Program Offers Relief to Struggling Businesses
According to the SFMTA website, “Shared Spaces allows merchants to use sidewalks, full or partial streets, and other nearby public spaces like parks, parking lots and plazas for restaurant pick-up and other neighborhood retail activities.”
Commentary – Harry Pariser
Save for those who benefit and are in control, every long-term resident must be taken aback by the transformation of a once friendly, once affordable small city, one filled with quirky characters and small businesses into a cold, metal-and-glass-and concrete theme park for techies and tourists.
Sunset Businesses Vandalized and Burglarized
From the 400 block to the 1700 block of Taraval, a total of five businesses were vandalized and or burglarized in a span of only two weeks. Four of the businesses were hit in succession on Sept. 9 and 10.
SFUSD Weighs Renaming 11 Sunset District Schools
The schools that are on the list include: Abraham Lincoln High School; James Russell Lowell High School; Herbert Hoover Middle School; Lawton Elementary School; Dianne Feinstein Elementary School; Thomas Jefferson Elementary School; Francis Scott Key Elementary School; Commodore Sloat Elementary School; Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary School; Ulloa Elementary School and Noriega Early Education School.
Housing Advocates Call for Evictions Moratorium
Although Gov. Gavin Newsom signed protections for tenants during the pandemic, San Francisco courts have resumed other eviction cases in spite of protests by westside housing advocates who say this is not the time to increase homelessness.
Sponsored Post: Local Medicare Specialist Recognized
National Medicare Association Recognizes San Francisco Professional Mary Fonte, an independent insurance agent specializing in Medicare and located in San Francisco, CA has been recognized by the American Association for Medicare Supplement Insurance (AAMSI).
Sponsored: 20th Avenue Pop-Up Shopping Event
20th Avenue Outdoor Pop-Up Shopping Event.
Letter to the Editor: The Screamer
Is it possible to live on the sidewalk for years and still maintain your health? Not just maintain but thrive? There is a man who has made his home on the sidewalk in our neighborhood for at least the last ten years …
Press Release: High School Students Make History in Writing Competition
Three history-loving teen writers will be awarded the 2020 Fracchia Prize by San Francisco Mayor London N. Breed and the Golden Gate Park walking tours they designed will be made available to the public for free.
Press Release: Legion of Honor and deYoung Museums Announce Plans to Reopen
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announce the reopening of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums, following their temporary closure under the shelter-in-place order mandated by the City of San Francisco.
Calendar of Events – Sunset District
Things to do in the Sunset District in September, 2020.
Police Blotter – Sunset District
Recent police activity in the Sunset District.
Letter to the Editor – More on Kopp’s Column
I’m having trouble figuring out why the Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon continues to devote 33 column inches to Mr. Kopp’s monthly “Commentary” (see the September issues).
Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon 