Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — Fairfield needs a new money chief. Bob Leland, director of finance, will retire at the end of 2010 after 26 years with the city, and the hunt is on for his successor. “We’ve retained a recruiter and we’re beating the bushes statewide and nationwide,†Leland said. The pool of applicants will [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — A team of Fairfield cops swarmed into Fairfield High School Thursday morning after a student was spotted carrying a gun. A student saw the armed 16-year-old as he was showing off the small loaded .25 caliber semi-automatic gun to several other students. The student told the vice principal about the 16-year-old [...]
RIO VISTA — The third annual Wings and Wheels, Airport Day event at the Rio Vista Municipal Airport is returning this Sunday. The free event, sponsored by the Rio Vista Experimental Aircraft Association, Chapter 1474, will feature vintage cars and airplanes from the 1920s through this year. Free airplane rides for the first 50 children, [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — Armijo High School senior Dylan De’Arman stood next to the salad bar and stuffed his ground beef burrito with lettuce, tomato and cheese to the point where he could not roll it. “It’s really the only way I get full,†he said. Whether students are eating pizza, burritos or teriyaki chicken [...]
FAIRFIELD — Sentencing was delayed Thursday for a Vacaville man who killed an innocent bystander during a 2007 drive-by shooting. Joseph S. Duran III, 21, will likely spend the rest of his life in prison without possibility of parole for the shooting that killed Angelo Hurst, 19, and wounded another. Hurst had been named captain [...]
As I listen to our president, Congress and state legislators, I believe they count on the public being too busy to either investigate or think the issues through before voting. Take taxation for example. Politicians regularly use taxation as a way to discourage behavior such as taxing cigarettes, alcohol, etc. They also use it to [...]
So who won Tuesday night’s first debate between California gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman? There certainly were no knockout punches, and nothing appeared to emerge from the hour-long exchange that will reverberate in the days to come — no gaffes, no startling positions. That said, Republican Whitman could be viewed as a winner [...]
Molly Norris is not as well known as Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf or the Rev. Terry Jones. But you should know who she is — even though she is no more. It will take just a moment for me to explain. In response to threats from militant Islamists, such custodians of Western culture as Comedy [...]
With suspicious haste, Cuba’s communist government abruptly announced it would let private farmers cultivate their crops on government land. Now we have an inkling why: The government wanted to get out while the getting was good. The Communist Party newspaper Granma is bracing the population for a severe coffee shortage. Cuba was once a major [...]
FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Community Resources Department is seeking vendors for the annual Holiday Decoration and Craft Fair. The event will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Fairfield Senior Center, 1200 Civic Center Drive. Vendor sign-ups are being taken from 9 to 11 a.m. each Wednesday beginning Oct. 5 at [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — A team of Fairfield cops swarmed into Fairfield High School Thursday morning after a student was spotted carrying a gun. A student saw the armed 16-year-old as he was showing off the small loaded .25 caliber semi-automatic gun to several other students. The student told the vice principal about the 16-year-old [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC FAIRFIELD — Solano County’s poverty rate is rising and children have the highest rate of any age group, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released this week. Solano County’s poverty rate for families rose from 6.4 percent in 2008 to 9.3 percent in 2009. The poverty rate for children under 18 in the [...]
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