A march against economic inequality Tuesday that began in the Financial District with a festive demonstration complete with puppetry and a marching band ended with an Occupy San Francisco takeover and standoff with police at the same vacant building the group called home for 24 hours last month. Read More
Board up your vacant buildings, please. Police are asking property owners in The City to do whatever it takes to keep members of the Occupy SF movement from squatting.The global Occupy movement against economic disparity has apparently changed tactics in San Francisco, police say, as rumors swirl about a May 1 takeover of an undisclosed property. Read More
Gloria Diana Ramos’s parents were married at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in 1933. She was baptized there and received her first communion in the Russian Hill church, which was once at the heart of a long-gone Mexican neighborhood.“There was a Mexican barber, restaurants, drug stores,” the 75-year-old recalled as she sat on the steps of the now-shuttered church. “Everyone spoke Spanish. It was part of a very vibrant neighborhood.” Read More
A Superior Court judge has indicated that the Archdiocese of San Francisco won’t have to pay more than $22 million in taxes sought by The City over the transfer of hundreds of properties between different church entities. Read More
“Hallelujah the bell has been found!”The Archdiocese of San Francisco is praising news that a 5,300 pound church bell swiped from St. Mary’s Cathedral last weekend has been found intact.A homeless man found the 122-year-old bell across the street from a salvage yard in West Oakland, near the Port of Oakland, said George Wesolek, spokesman for the Archdiocese. Read More
A 5,300-pound bell that survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and is worth an estimated $75,000 was stolen last weekend by recycling thieves probably hoping to scrap it for about $10,000.
The theft of this historic bell from St. Mary’s Cathedral is just the latest in a rash of alarming metal thefts across The City. The Police Department recently launched a special investigations unit specifically to combat such thefts. Read More
