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Citizens Housing in Contract with Altenheim, Inc.
Maja Brugos
The Altenheim, Inc. is currently in contract with a new developer, Citizens Housing of San Francisco. Citizens Housing is a nonprofit organization that develops...
Burckhalter Neighbors News
Maureen Dorsey and Sparky Carranza
Burckhalter Neighbors, a neighborhood association of residents around Burckhalter Elementary School, has been one of the active forces behind the residents'...
The Imperfect Gardener
Adina Sara
I really have no business writing a gardening column this month. Three months ago, I found myself at the mercy of an adorable puppy at the Oakland pound white...
The Importance of Being Earnest at Mills College
Shauna Jones
"In matters of grave importance," writes Oscar Wilde, "style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."Certainly the expert on style, Wilde remains as fashionable...
Does the Postal Service Serve You?
(Yes or no, the Metro will print your replies.)
NoThe answer to that question is NO, NO and NO. Our neighborhood can't seem to maintain a good postal carrier. We had a person for about a month or so, and the...
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Boulevard Bites
Sheila D'Amico and Toni Locke
### New life springs at the corner of High & Fairfax! In March, Mike Amari opened High St. Discount. He prides himself on low prices for a variety of items...
To Your Health
Tending and Befriending
Paulette Avery, R.N., M.S.N.
The research I'm sharing this month comes from a UCLA study published in 2000 in thejournal Psychological Review. It looks at friendship among women and the...
Year-Round Earth Day on High Street
Meredith Florian
If you drive too quickly up High St. from MacArthur, you might easily miss a quiet takeoverthat is budding on the median strip a revolution of color, form, and...
Onions & Orchids
Peter Bond
Dear readers: This writer does search for individuals and businesses worthy of inclusion in this column, but he relies mostly on input from others.
"the best preparation would be creating that personal family plan and getting sometraining."
"contrary to what we see in the movies, people do not run from Godzilla"]
Civil DefenseBy Sheila D'AmicoGordon Laverty's Leona Heights column in last month's Metro, in which he talked about hisneighborhood's disaster planning,...
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