Community Calendar: April 2025
PV Staff 4/3 ThursdayArt: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Free Admission DayResidents of the nine Bay Area counties can enjoy complimentary art-filled galleries and related events. 12 to 8 p.m. Buy…
American Industrial Center Celebrates Half-Century Hosting Small Businesses
Robyn Smith On a typical day at the American Industrial Center, Greg and Diane Markoulis can be found in the building’s management office alongside their dogs, distributing produce, grown in the backyard…
Obituary
Katrina Krimsky Siegmann1938- 2025 Katrina Krimsky, born March 5, 1938 on St. Simons Island, Georgia, passed away on March 16, 2025 in San Francisco. A long-time Texas Street resident, Krimsky…
Tommy Egan
Tamala Motta Tommy Egan was a well-known, much loved and respected, although generally drunk, former professional boxer who lived on 20th Street between Third and Illinois streets during the second half of…
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Proposes to Eliminate 55-Dogpatch
Rebekah Moan The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) proposes to reduce the number of bus lines, stops and service frequency by four percent as a means to shrink an impending $50…
Starr King Elementary Wins Honor Roll Award
Jessica Zimmer Last fall Starr King Elementary School was one of 22 San Francisco Unified School District campuses to receive an Honor Roll Award from the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. The…
Publisher’s View: Land Trusts
Steven J. Moss Kings Canyon, Sequoia, and Yosemite are visited by upwards of five million people a year, fulfilling the National Park Service’s writ to preserve natural resources “for the enjoyment, education, and…
Short Cuts
Trash Talk Last fall, Recology paid ratepayers $24 million after municipal regulators determined that the privately held waste disposal company had overcharged its customers. It made similar payouts in 2022,…
Curbside Electric Vehicle Charging Pilot Proposed for Dogpatch
Municipal officials are asking Dogpatch and Duboce Triangle residents and businesses for advice about the best locations to mount curbside electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. The installations would be part…
Critics Unhappy with Short Term Rentals at Project Artaud
Mark Steensland When Project Artaud was founded in 1971 with the purchase of a 100,000 square foot building at 499 Alabama Street, it was envisioned as a community, a physical space where…
Letters to the Editor
Editor, Apropos of “Green Benefit District to Wilt Unless Property Owners Opt to Renew,” (February), rather than limiting decision making to a board, why not let all property owners vote…
Bus Stop Thoughts
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Switching from Gas to Electricity Key Strategy to Reduce Carbon Emissions
It took a half-dozen years and tens of thousands of dollars, but Connecticut Street resident Lisa Ryers can now boast a fully electric, partially grid-independent home that costs less to…
Community Calendar: March 2025
Now through 3/9 SundayTheater: Volpone Volpone (The Fox) is a Venetian gentleman who pretends to be on his deathbed after a long illness to dupe Voltore (The Vulture), Corbaccio (The…
More Playgrounds to be Added to Southside Neighborhoods
Photos: Alex Mangot The median age in San Francisco is 41; just 14 percent of residents are under 18. While there are 91 playgrounds in the City, neighborhoods with significant…
SF Police Department’s Revised District Station Boundaries Receive Mixed Reviews
Southside residents are concerned that law enforcement will be less robust in their neighborhoods if newly proposed police district station boundaries are adopted. Under SFPD’s 2024 district boundary report, submitted…
Burglars Use Mail Key to Access Multiple Dogpatch Buildings
A Dogpatch condominium building was burglarized twice, along with a third attempt, in the span of four days earlier this year. Instead of smashing windows or picking locks, the criminals…
Green Benefit District to Wilt Unless Property Owners Opt to Renew
Chaitanya Tondepu The Dogpatch and Northwest (NW) Potrero Hill Green Benefit District (GBD) was founded in 2015 by residents who wanted more communal spaces in an area previously dominated by industrial uses.…
Publisher’s View: Too Much Wisdom
Steven Moss will turn 65-years-old this fall, an upcoming passage that prompted him to share the “wisdom” he’s acquired over the past six decades and a half. Despite Hollywood’s constant…
Short Cuts
EV Chargers Under a municipal pilot program, curbside electric vehicle charging stations will be installed in Dogpatch. The experiment is examining ways to make EV charging accessible to residents who…
What Dogpatch Can Teach Potrero Hill
Late last year three families on my Potrero Hill block departed San Francisco. This exodus, part of a regular pulse of partings, isn’t just a matter of statistics; it’s a…
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, San Francisco Safe, which was mentioned in “Burglaries Beset Dogpatch, Potrero Hill,” (January), closed last year. A scandal involving misspent funds from municipal coffers and a crypto billionaire…
School District Eyes Fresh Bond Funds to Make Facility Improvements
Last November, Proposition 2 was approved by almost 60 percent of California voters, authorizing issuance of $10 billion in general obligation (GO) bonds to fund repairs, upgrades, and construction of…
Rebirth
If you’re lucky, or work at it, the regularity of life is occasionally marked by transformative moments that create a bridge between dispirited endings and promising beginnings. Anna Hennessey’s immersive…
Community Calendar: February 2025
2/1 Saturday through 3/8 SaturdayCraft: Hat Knit-AlongA beginner-friendly six-week hat knitting course led by Hannah Milstein, a multimedia artist, former teacher, and knitting wizz. The knit-along will break down a…
