Archive for October, 2006
When I started this blog a year and a half ago, I thought I’d be living on Potrero Hill for life (well, maybe that’s a stretch … but at least for a while). That was before the birth of my second child in April, and before I started thinking more seriously about kindergarten choices for my daughter (who enrolls in the fall of 2008).
Nowadays, I regularly think about moving down to the peninsula. The high cost of living in the city (I currently own a 2 bedroom condo which my family will eventually outgrow) and the current student assignment process for public schools, make me question whether or not staying in Potrero Hill and San Francisco is the wisest decision for my family.
The Potrero Hill Parents who saved Daniel Webster from closure have launched a new campaign … endorsing Jane Kim & Kim-Shree Maufas for School Board (both candidates are also endorsed by the SF Bay Guardian).
You may have already seen flyers posted at neighborhood stores including Klein’s, Thinkers Cafe and Chat’s, as well as posters along […]
Just received an e-mail today about the launch of outside.in, a website aiming to capture and organize all the neighborhood-centric information on the web.
Potrero Hill is a featured neighborhood (the only one in SF), and the site is pulling in content from this here blog, so check it out.
• Potrero Hill [ outside.in ]
Letter to the Community from the Esprit Park People/Dog Task Force:
Dear Dogpatch neighbors and friends:
As you may know there is a neighborhood task force comprised of members of the Dogpatch Neighborhood Association, Dogpatch Dogs, and Friends of Esprit Park, made up of both dog owners and non-dog owners, meeting to work out an acceptable use […]
A recent SF Chronicle article was written about home prices slipping for the first time in four years.
Included in the article was a Potrero Hill homeowner, Leslie Nakajima, who hasn’t had a single offer on her three-bedroom house in Potrero Hill.
If she hasn’t received any offers by month’s end, Nakajima said she’ll stop trying to […]
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