This Week In Noe Valley: Tuggey's Clearing Out, Angry Birds Hit Big Time, Pup Photos

News from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• ABC7 gets emotional, highlights bathroom graffiti and can't spell "Tuggy's" [KGO; Also: KGO six months ago]
• O'Greenbergs to become Palladin with ABC license transfer [Grubstreet]
• NoPa, Outer Richmond and Parkside edge out Noe Valley for competitive bids [SFGate]
• Noe Valley's angry birds make the national news feed [MSNBC]
• Photos of your pup by Jesse Freidin tomorrow [K9ScrubClub]
• Set your child on the path to effective cyber security [NewsBiscuit]
• Insane promo filmed on San Francisco's streets [YouTube]

Noe In The National News

In 2002, Noe Valley was one of the nation's Best Places to Live.

More recently, local Stephen Fowler updated our national image.

Yesterday? Celebrating the 'grown up' skater crowd born of a generation of kids who took over abandoned swimming pools. Summary: a $500k remodel of a $1M house.

The overall message? In the comments, please.

[NYT: When Skaters Grow Up]

Letter from Bevan: The Dogs Are OK

From Bevan Dufty's latest newsletter*:

I heard from dog lovers about dingy yellow water from the faucets at Joby's Run at the Upper Noe Recreation Center. Please let your dogs know that the problem has been fixed with the assistance of PUC and DPH.

The Environmental Health Inspectors from the Department of Public Health tested the water and found that the main problem was old pipes. PUC staff installed a new pipe to connect the drinking fountains to a new water line and repaired the fountain valves. Now, the line is connected to the same line used by humans and the water is clear again.

I would like to thank Christopher Faust of Friends of Upper Noe Dog Owners Group [FUNDOG!] for bringing this issue to my attention and Laura Spanjian and Michael Carlin of the PUC.

*whew*

*Bevan's outdated newsletter page. If you'd like to subscribe to future editions, well... since Icebase/Coolermail took over it's impossible to figure out how to subscribe. We'd like to help.... Can anyone else figure it out?

Fowling Noe Valley

From a comment we've since deleted if for no other reason than it wasn't on topic:

Why don't you post something about stephen fowler noe valley neighbor? He was on wifeswap on abc. check out www.stephenfowlersucks.com or google stephen fowler wife swap

Regarding such, we've followed the Gawker posts (and the rest of the related craziness across the 'net). We didn't post because it felt like a pile-on and that's not what we're about. Stephen Fowler does not represent Noe Valley -- even if he lives here, goes on TV, and says things that make him (and everyone else in Noe) seem like a ______, _______ and ______. Noe has nothing to fear from this man -- his wife is embarrassed (in a Mrs. Spitzer way) and has said he needs professional help.

But really...who cares? It's just another crappy show highlighting the worst in people (in this case an angry transplant who needs help (but drives ratings)). Not really worth our time, and certainly not representative of Noe Valley.

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