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The people taking San Francisco’s trash into their own hands
WEBSep 8, 2021 · The people taking San Francisco’s trash into their own hands. Trash collects under a tree on 23rd Street. Photo by Eleni Balakrishnan. After losing his restaurant job over a year ago due to a pandemic closure, Manuel Montejano came across a Craigslist ad for a job that offered to pay nearly double the minimum wage.
Historic building weathers grocery owner, former Facebook exec
WEBApr 12, 2017 · Two previous uses – an organic grocery store and a vegan restaurant and brewery – were proposed by the building’s last two owners – first the grocery store owner Guadalupe Hernandez, and later an LLC involving Owen Van Natta, a former chief operating officer of Facebook. But after seven years of …
Two SFPD officers, former SF cop arrested - Mission Local
WEBApr 19, 2022 · Photo by Eleni Balakrishnan. Two current San Francisco police officers and one part-time retired San Francisco police officer were taken into custody today by their employer for charges including theft of a machine gun from the SFPD and destruction of evidence. The SFPD announced the arrests today, …
Understanding the Mission District’s history
WEBAug 3, 2018 · Mission District history map. The nominal Mission of the Mission was San Francisco de Asis, founded by Spanish Franciscans in 1776, but Yelamu Indians inhabited the area around Mission Creek for thousands of years before that. Since the Spanish came, there’s been waves of immigrants and newcomers: Irish, Germans, Latin …
Mission's El Farolito soccer squad nets win in US Open Cup
WEBMar 21, 2024 · El Farolito’s amateur team came from behind Tuesday night to beat the Portland Timbers 2, a feeder club for Major League Soccer’s Portland Timbers, in the opening round of the U.S. Open Cup. The 110-year-old national soccer competition — easily the nation’s oldest — is familiar with big upsets in its first rounds.
Photos: ‘Taste of Bayview’ celebrates district’s culinary delights
WEBAug 30, 2024 · Photo by Anne Li. Ball, and Gumbo Social, did just that on Thursday evening at the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center’s “Taste of Bayview” launch, aimed at uplifting small restaurants in the district. An audience of around 100 people crowded into the Southeast Community Center at Third and Evans streets to try Gumbo Social’s bowls ...
Generous, Prolific, “Loco” – Stencil Artist Michael Roman Dies at 60
WEBDec 30, 2016 · In art and in life, Michael Roman was a man of many layers, colorful visions and haunting complexities. The stencil artist and silkscreen printmaker, best known for layered prints depicting cultural and political icons, died on Monday, succumbing to severe health complications. He was 60 years old. Three …
Time to vote - Mission Local
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Street Science: The Mission’s Trees
WEBJun 20, 2012 · Some trees once considered ideal are now causing problems. Let’s look at the ficus trees on 24th Street again, for example. Although they were favored in the 1980s, they have generally not been planted since then because the surface roots cause sidewalk damage, and the city is losing many of them to an apparent fungal disease, perhaps moving in from root pruning activities.