Dec. 16, 1937 — Nov. 27, 2009 Robert Lee Ballard was born on Dec. 16, 1937, in Wewoka, Okla., to Robert E. and Ruby (Rainwater) Ballard. He graduated from high school in Bakersfield and then served for four years in the U.S. Air Force. Bob worked at the Silverado Country Club in Napa for 20 [...]
July 25, 1934 — Nov. 28, 2009 Robert McClanahan was born in Tucson, Ariz., on July 25, 1934, to Isaac T. McClanahan Sr. and Jennie Beatrice (Fox) McClanahan. He married Bobbie J. Gipson on June 21, 1958. Robert enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1952, and after 22 years of service, he retired and [...]
Jan. 22, 1919 — Nov. 13, 2009 Beth passed away at the Paramount House Senior Living facility in Vacaville, in the early afternoon of November 13. She was 90 years of age. She was a descendant of Cordelia/Suisun Valley’s pioneering Mayhood family and lived in the area the majority of her life. She attended local [...]
Aug. 22, 1912 — Nov. 27, 2009 Lenora Ann Skoglund, 97, died Friday, Nov. 27, 2009, in Vacaville. Lenora was born Aug. 22, 1912, in Inkster, N.D. She is survived by her son, Lyle of Yuma, Ariz.; daughter, Ruth (Darrel) Brateng of Vacaville; five grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. Services to be held at [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — A group of local teens is working to reduce underage drinking. The Solano Live Youth Council is a group of teens who work to raise awareness and find solutions for issues affecting Solano County teens. The teens are organizing a program called World Cafe, which will match 60 students with 60 [...]
Associated Press Writer PITTSBURGH — Making one’s true love happy will cost a whopping $87,403 this year, a minuscule increase from last year, according to the latest cost analysis of the items in the carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas.†That’s the grand total for the single partridge in a pear tree to the 12 [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — The city’s first holiday surprise of 2009 is a new home for the downtown Christmas tree. Fairfield will move its annual tree lighting ceremony this year to a spot along Jefferson Street at the site of the former Solano County Courthouse. City crews are decorating an existing spruce tree on the [...]
Daily Republic SUISUN CITY — A noontime shooting Monday on Wigeon Way left a 22-year-old Fairfield man with several gunshot wounds to his abdomen and legs. Nearby residents found Oracio G. Punzo lying in a puddle of his own blood along a walkway in the front yard of a home at the corner of Wigeon [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — Ninth-graders in Fairfield-Suisun School District lagged behind ninth-graders statewide on physical fitness testing, according to data released Monday by the California Department of Education. In Fairfield-Suisun, 23.7 percent of ninth-graders passed all six portions of a state-mandated fitness test in the 2008-09 school year, compared with 37.9 percent of students statewide. [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — A Fairfield bailbondsman has sued the Solano County Board of Supervisors trying to block the pending layoffs of dozens of Solano County employees. Joel “Tom†Toler was in court Monday morning seeking a restraining order to halt the termination of as many as 161 employees. Judge Paul L. Beeman is scheduled [...]
Daily Republic VALLEJO — The man accused of shooting and killing Fairfield City Councilman Matt Garcia will start his murder trial May 5, 2010, a judge ordered Monday. Henry D. Williams had originally been scheduled to stand trial in November. That trial was postponed after Williams, acting as his own attorney, made an 11th hour [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — Water giant Crystal Geyser has signed a lease to operate a distribution facility in the Cordelia area. The company, which operates a bottling plant in Calistoga in Napa County, has leased about 70,000 square feet of industrial space across from Rodriguez High School. The arrangement is a three-year deal with the [...]
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