In this week’s newsletter, we interview new SFMTA boss Julie Kirschbaum, who happens to be an Inglesider. Plus:
• We check on the Ocean Avenue Association
• Here's the wild Outside Lands Lineup
• We talk to Expert Pet's Fernando Gomez
• A Low-Profile Plant And Flower Sale
• The Listing, Things To Do and Worth Reading
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And now, the news.
Julie Kirschbaum, New SFMTA Boss And Inglesider, Talks Transit
The Ingleside Light met with SFMTA's new top official to talk transit and the neighborhood.
Ocean Avenue Association’s Existence Up For Vote
Outside Lands 2025 Music Lineup, Food Vendors Announced
City College's Biannual Plant And Flower Sale A Landscaper's Dream
From Tech to Tails: Fernando Gomez's Pet Store Passion
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
- Photographer Shows Ingleside’s Past And Present By Capturing Small Businesses
- Al Perez's Chow Fun SF Spotlights Asian Culture With Food
- NEA Grant Cuts Hit Ingleside-Serving Arts Nonprofit
- SFMTA Wants Feedback On Frida Kahlo Way Street Changes
THE LISTING
2429 Ocean Ave.
Located on Ingleside's Medical Row, the stretch of Ocean Avenue near Lakeside Village, this 1923-built office features all of its original components: wooden board and batten siding, brick walkway and window awnings in the back. Read more.
THINGS TO DO
🛣️ Vision Zero Freeway Ramps Open House at the Ingleside Library Meeting Room | Thursday, 5 to 6:30 p.m. | Ingleside
☕ Community Coffee with Supervisor Meglar’s Legislative Aide Jen Low at Java on Ocean | Friday, 10 – 11 a.m. | Free | Ingleside
🪴 Plant Swap Social at Ingleside Branch Library | Saturday, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. | Free | Ingleside
🍜 Chow Fun AAPI Dine Around Closing Ceremony at Kapuso at the Upper Yard | Sunday, 2 – 4 p.m. | Free with RSVP
🎸 The Vince Lateano Trio Performance at Bird & Beckett Books & Records | Sunday, 5 p.m. | $20 cover fee | Glen Park
WORTH READING
- SF Supervisor’s Student Journalism Resolution Spotlights Lowell High School Newspaper Controversy KQED
- Mayor Daniel Lurie unveils new plan to get SF law enforcement fully staffed ABC7
- Mayor Lurie’s plan to add new treatment beds removes 97 current ones Mission Local
- Exclusive: S.F.’s planning director stepping down after five years and an ambitious rezoning process San Francisco Chronicle (Metered Paywall)
- Engardio recall leader resigns days before key deadline San Francisco Examiner
- Kezar Stadium is at the center of a brewing soccer battle in San Francisco San Francisco Chronicle (Metered Paywall)
- Golden Gate Park concerts planned to celebrate 60 years of Grateful Dead CBS Bay Area
- Mysterious SF buried treasure has been found KRON4
- His great-grandfather enshrined birthright citizenship. Norman Wong is trying to save it. Washington Post
- Joe Walker Obituary: Ingleside musician
- Betty Carey Obituary: Ingleside resident died at 101
- Video: Mayor Daniel Lurie and Supervisor Myrna Melgar on Balboa Reservoir project
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