Nate Nickolai

Dec 20, 2023 | sfstandard.com | Nate Nickolai

By Nate NickolaiUpdated Jan. 18, 2024 • 4:04pmPublished Dec. 20, 2023 • 11:00amUpdate: San Francisco's Recreation and Park Commission voted Jan. 18 to officially rename Golden Gate Park's Stow Lake. Its new name, Blue Heron Lake, celebrates the great blue herons that have nested at Stow Lake since 1993.

Dec 6, 2023 | sfstandard.com | Michaela Neville |Nate Nickolai

San Francisco’s Stow Lake has been a much-loved spot for locals and tourists alike for more than a century. But after a modern reckoning with the antisemitic views held by 19th century San Francisco lawmaker William Stow—the lake’s namesake—city officials are pushing for the lake to get a new name.