Ocean Beach news roundup May 13
This week in the Ocean Beach news roundup: arrests in Sunset District scam, a visit to Balboa Street, cleaning up Lake Merced, food trucks on SFSU campus
We can’t link to every story out there, but if you think we missed something, leave a comment here, or tell us on Twitter or Facebook.
- Police nab three women in connection with a scam that targeted Chinese people in the Sunset District and South of Market. – SF Examiner, World Journal (Chinese)
- The Chronicle visits Balboa Street in the outer Richmond District, highlighting some of the more notable businesses. There’s plenty more to outer Balboa Street though. What’s your favorite place that didn’t make the Chron’s list? – SF Chronicle
- For those of us who have chosen or inherited a life on the city’s western edge, Ocean Beach is such a large and constant influence it’s easy to forget there are San Franciscans who’ve never even seen it. But some kids from Roosevelt Middle School in the Richmond District recently got their first dose of Ocean Beach sand in their socks as part of an unusual field trip. – SF Chronicle
- In honor of Bike to Work Day, the editor of the Huffington Post chose 17 routes and spots as the best in the Bay Area. Of those picks, two are among the sandiest, windiest areas in western San Francisco. – Huffington Post
- St. Ignatius rolls deep into the San Francisco Prep Hall of Fame (though Wash, Lowell and Lincoln athletes get in there, too). – SF Examiner
- Who’s on the hook for cleaning up the lead and clay pigeon debris from the Pacific Rod and Gun Club at Lake Merced? It could be the City (meaning you), and the cost could be more than $10 million. – ABC7
- Food trucks have started serving customers on the San Francisco State University campus, including one from the Sunset District’s Sunrise Deli.- Golden Gate Xpress, SF Weekly





