The streets of the Sunset can use some cleaning. That’s why residents are organizing to clean the streets themselves. Volunteers armed with rubber-tipped grabbers and garbage bags scour the streets for trash several times a month.
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Can 5th graders write and publish a book? Sunset Elementary teacher Jason Parmele knows they can. His students have spent months creating and illustrating the 12-chapter, 12,000 word tome called Dog Land. It’s an imaginative tale where dogs rule the world.
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Douglas Gorney is an artist who captures the unique beauty of the Sunset — with a focus on the ubiquitous overhead wires that crisscross San Francisco’s western neighborhoods. Somehow, he makes the wires seem mystical as they disappear into the fog. Learn more about how his art came to be.
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Nate Lim’s policing philosophy is to “never stop learning and growing.” He also works to change negative perceptions about law enforcement by helping San Franciscans understand what police officers do.
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Dispatch from Lincoln High is a series that features the reporting of journalism students at Lincoln High School and their student newspaper the Lincoln Log
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San Franciscan Wong Kim Ark won a landmark Supreme Court case 125 years ago establishing birthright citizenship for all. Freedom is fragile and Wong Kim Ark’s fight for justice is an inspiration today.
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Dispatch from Lincoln High is a series that features the reporting of journalism students at Lincoln High School and their student newspaper the Lincoln Log.
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We’re exploring Taraval block by block to find favorite eateries new and old. There’s a world of cuisine between 20th and 21st Avenues.
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Drewkai Butler left a career in the technology sector to become a police officer — at age 43. For tech workers joining the Great Resignation or facing layoff, can police work in San Francisco provide the meaning and impact they’re looking for? Drewkai says emphatically yes.
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Surfer Travis Payne placed second at the giant wave Mavericks contest and turned that skill into a career saving lives in fire and water. When the firefighter-paramedic isn’t battling blazes in the Sunset, he does surf rescue at Ocean Beach.
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Visiting all 12 public schools in the Sunset was a priority in my first weeks in office.
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I spent a day visiting San Francisco firefighters in the three stations that serve Sunset neighborhoods.
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Meet the magical balloon man of the Sunset: Rob Shapiro.
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